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Old 01-18-2016, 11:38 AM   #16 (permalink)
hat_man
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Just to continue the pipe dream some more....

The leafs on my truck are roughly 60" long. The frame is only about 36" wide. It's hard to imagine a set of leafs 10' long. The foggy dream wasn't to reduce weight though. It was more to create some sort of boat-tail bed.

I was hypothetically thinking something like this in conjunction with the standard shock arrangement.

If you haven't figured out already I like to think outside the box
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