77 K20
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- Montana
- First Name
- Mike
- Truck Year
- 1977
- Truck Model
- K20 5" lift
- Engine Size
- HT383 fuel injected
Looks good anyway.....
but for something free might take off your sway bar and go for a drive to see if you like that or not. Removing mine was the single best thing I have ever done. The front end rides very nice now. I guess I get a bit of lean in the corners- but do not haul a slide in camper and I do not expect it to handle like a racecar. If you do like how it feels (at least in a straight line) hitting bumps and have an extra $120 or so you can get a sway bar relocation kit. It will level out your bar and allow it to move when hitting a bump. In the stock location when you hit a bump the sway bar is trying to compress- and it fights it.
Also what type of shocks did you get? Something like a rancho 5000? That might be a large part of it also. I put those on a K5 I had a long time ago and hated the way it rode. Since then I've been using Bilsteins. Either the classic blue/yellow for stock height and the 5100/5125s for lifted. I have been very impressed with them.
but for something free might take off your sway bar and go for a drive to see if you like that or not. Removing mine was the single best thing I have ever done. The front end rides very nice now. I guess I get a bit of lean in the corners- but do not haul a slide in camper and I do not expect it to handle like a racecar. If you do like how it feels (at least in a straight line) hitting bumps and have an extra $120 or so you can get a sway bar relocation kit. It will level out your bar and allow it to move when hitting a bump. In the stock location when you hit a bump the sway bar is trying to compress- and it fights it.
Also what type of shocks did you get? Something like a rancho 5000? That might be a large part of it also. I put those on a K5 I had a long time ago and hated the way it rode. Since then I've been using Bilsteins. Either the classic blue/yellow for stock height and the 5100/5125s for lifted. I have been very impressed with them.
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