can I flip shackles and keep ride height?

[Snal]

I noticed a while ago that my passenger side tire sticks out further and my drivers is sunk in and I crawled under and didn't notice anything until a couple of weeks ago I took off the bed and the hanger on the passengers side is bent out of shape. I'm going to replace them but I was curious of something. I know if I flip the shackles then I'll get a drop in height but I don't want that and I know if I get a 7" shackle after a flip I will have to cut into the bed and I dont wanna do that either. If I can I want to put in a hanger that is lowered so I can flip it and put in a 7" shackle to balance it back to stock height but give me the benefit of more travel in the rear. I found Eibach drop hangers on ebay but I dunno anything about lowering so I'm hoping maybe I can flip these and use some lift shackles to balance it out? but I dunno how these hangers work. if they are supposed to lower the truck without a flip then I would imagine I can use them the way I want to but I dunno anything about lowering so any help will be very appreciated.

 

[--weezl--]

are you wanting to lower your truck, or not lower your truck?

if you want to keep the same ride height, why are you flipping the shackle?

a bent hangar shouldn't cause your axle to stick out one side more than the other...

 

[Snal]

I'm not wanting to raise or lower it at all. I was going to flip the shackle but only if I could find a lowering hanger that would balance it back out to stock height. I plan on just replacing it without a flip but I just figure if I can find a hanger that is dropped so when I flip it I wont loose any height but I could gain travel cuz I jump it every now and then so it would be beneficial in that aspect and wouldn't be that much more expensive but only lowering hangers work that way which I dont know if they do.

heres pics of my hangers and shackles now and I'm pretty sure it was in an accident before I bought it cuz my axle is from on 02 but mine is an 00

Drivers side

Passenger side

 

[BLS2.3]

If you flip the hangers it will drop ~2". If you then install longer shackles it will lower that much more.

You could flip the hangers & install add-a-leafs to get back to ~0"

 

[Snal]

yeah thats what I was thinking or add a block but im just gonna replace it probably and keep it normal I don't wanna put too much into I'm trying to save for a new truck

 

[--weezl--]

if you're jumping it, flipping the shackles to give you more travel won't do jack...

yeah you will get more droop out of it, but it won't be a weighted droop, essentially, if your suspension droops say 6" and you flip it, and get 12" of droop, that extra 6" has no weight on the axle, more than the weight of the axle... the longer travel will help if all of that distance is helping to slow the drop of the vehicle, which yours will not... you need softer/progressive springs that will give you more travel, that are still partially flexed on full droop

the 63" chevy leafs might help this a little... though you will still have some "free droop" at the end that won't do shit...

it's like everyone talking about getting 15" of travel on the rear with this setup, but the problem is, the droop is non functional, even in a flex situation, where one is tucked away completely, and the other is full droop, there's no weight on the droop wheel, so it's not going to help you with traction in any way shape or form...


there will be a point with the above setup, where you will be able to walk up to the truck, and lift the back axle up a few inches, with no resistance... this is not going to do ANY good for you

 

[Snal]

I know it wouldn't do anything but allow the axle to go further I never wanted to gain any performance but I have to replace the hanger and shackle setup on both so I figured why not add some travel. not for performance just because if it's going to be the same price why not add some travel.

 

[--weezl--]

because if you add travel that won't do anything it's pointless, and will be more work than it's worth, plus you would have to bu an AAL or different shackles... cost you more money than you need