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==Lower than stock ride height== Here's how I might do the "lower than stock" build. With your Dakota donor truck still complete and sitting level, put an inclinometer on the lower control arms and write down the angle (assuming you're using a 2-wheel drive donor). This will insure that when the International is finished, the angle of the Dakota lower control arms will be the same as they were stock and all the suspension geometry will be stock. Use the inclinometer on some part of the frame or spring hat or upper control arm mounting points inside the engine compartment to find the fore-aft angle of the front of the frame. (THIS IS WITH THE DAKOTA DONOR TRUCK STILL ALL TOGETHER AND SITTING SQUARE ON A LEVEL SURFACE WITH TIRE PRESSURE EQUALIZED AT MFG. SPECS). You'll need this information later when you mate the Dakota clip to the International center section to make certain the clip is on the same fore/aft attitude as stock so that you don't screw up the caster that's engineered into the front suspension. Write it down. You want to adjust the caster so that the steering wheel comes back to neutral all by itself after a turn; in order to achieve that, the clip must be installed at the same angle it was in the donor truck. If you're doing the project with just the clips that you found or purchased, find a complete, running, stock ride height Dakota that the owner will let you take some angles from, again, with the truck sitting on a level surface and tires aired up.
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