4 rear leaf springs
Muddoc
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- Port Orchard, WA
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- '79 CJ5 NEW 4.2L I6 with Pace Setter 2-piece tube headers, Borg-Warner T150 3-spd, modified Dana Model 20 (has extra detent for 2-low), Model 30 front with disc brakes and Warn Premium locking hubs, Model 35 rear with a Detroit Locker and one piece axles, Warn M8274-50 8,000 lbs. winch with 150 feet of 5/16 inch cable and remote, 4 inch Rancho spring-under lift with custom drive shafts, 33 x 12.50 Maxxis Bighorn Mud terrain tires on black American Racing Steel wheels, full roll cage, custom built front and rear bumpers (nothing else like them on the road), Best Top Denim top with 2-piece soft doors.
I recently saw a late 50's-early 60's CJ5 with 4 rear leaf springs (2 per side). I have scoured the net and asked the local 4x4 shop, no ideas. I thought it might have been one of the post war jeeps used with farm impliments or for mining. The jeep also had a strange V8, the owner of the recking yard had no information or history on it, it did not look like anything I have seen before as in Chevy, Ford, or Chrysler/Dodge. At first I thought it was a transplant, but there were no tell-tales of any kind of fabrication. I am most interested in the quad spring suspension.
