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Article Needed On Lowering
I suggest you do what I did; start by getting 2" lowering springs for the front from DJM (around $99), then get lowering shocks. You will also need cam bolts to correct front camber to properly align your truck. (I paid around $35.) That's all you really need for the front. For a 4" drop in the rear: shocks, a welder, and a plasma makes things really easy.Start by removing the rear axle from the truck. Mark your spring perches exactly 180 degrees from their current location on the top, and cut your perches off. Be Very careful positioning them back in place on the bottom of the axle and re-weld them in place. Put the axle back in and that's a clean 2" 4" drop. Their should only be 1/2 " difference of ride height front to rear.As for the back end, if you've done an axle flip, you can now install blocks to go lower, but your drive line angle will change dramatically, and you may even need to shorten it. (For those of you mini truckers who have had a tailshaft housing break, you know why.) The only way to correct the pinion angle is to use wedges and shim under the axle if your blocks aren't engineered to maintain correct pinion angle.
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I suggest you do what I did; start by getting 2" lowering springs for the front from DJM (around $99), then get lowering shocks. You will also need cam bolts to correct front camber to properly align your truck. (I paid around $35.) That's all you really need for the front. For a 4" drop in the rear: shocks, a welder, and a plasma makes things really easy.Start by removing the rear axle from the truck. Mark your spring perches exactly 180 degrees from their current location on the top, and cut your perches off. Be Very careful positioning them back in place on the bottom of the axle and re-weld them in place. Put the axle back in and that's a clean 2" 4" drop. Their should only be 1/2 " difference of ride height front to rear.As for the back end, if you've done an axle flip, you can now install blocks to go lower, but your drive line angle will change dramatically, and you may even need to shorten it. (For those of you mini truckers who have had a tailshaft housing break, you know why.) The only way to correct the pinion angle is to use wedges and shim under the axle if your blocks aren't engineered to maintain correct pinion angle.
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