DeucesAllin
OBS Enthusiast
...Full floaters are only 31
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Just because some people call them that, doesn't make it correct... Fact is there is not "heavy half" package for these trucks, just the F44 Heavy Duty Suspension.
I'm not so sure on a drum interchange from the 6 lug 9.5" 14 bolt to any othher 10 bolt...
FYI narrowing a 14 bolt would cost damn near $800 in materials alone, and thats replacing a set of perfectly good axles.
But I have no room to spare currently with the 10 bolts WMS amd 325/50r15 Drag Radials
I gotcha, template.I meant use the drum as a trmplatr to drill the flanges one's self.
Thats where I am at: counting the cost of running a drum to drum 14 bolt from a 7200gvw 2x4...
If the drums on it the 14sf ill fit in the 15s, ill make them work.
FYI narrowing a 14 bolt would cost damn near $800 in materials alone, and thats replacing a set of perfectly good axles.
But I have no room to spare currently with the 10 bolts WMS amd 325/50r15 Drag Radials
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I'm quite aware of the F44 package and it's existence before the GMT400 platform. Another interesting fact is the F44 RPO was used on 3500 trucks as well which bumped the GVWR from 10k to 11k or 12k depending on application. F44 package wasn't limited to just 1/2tons... And even you yourself admit that the "Heavy Half" was a package, tied to the F44 suspension...Okay, I hate to get snobby, but this thread is a little bit ridiculous. Do you know anything about the square body trucks? I would assume you do. You seem like a smart man. The "heavy half" trucks from the 80s, guess what their RPO code was? F44. Guess what it stood for? Heavy duty chassis. There was no RPO code that actually designated a truck a heavy half. That's the exact same as the GMT400s, so if they were heavy halves, so are any GMT400s with the F44 code.
And about your GVWR rules.. You're right, it doesn't make it a class 4 truck. But we've already determined that "heavy halves" don't exist, so anything with a higher GVWR than a 1/2 ton but lower than a 3/4 ton can be called whatever someone wants it to be. By the way, if you registered your truck for 20k GVWR - you'd have to follow all the same rules a class 4 truck does anyways.
Edit: Before someone says it, yes I know the heavy halves had different decals. That was just a marketing thing from GM and didn't even have an RPO code. It was literally an option when you ordered the truck, but you could only order it if you had the F44 RPO and it was included in that package.