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How to lower the rear?


The ride is improved. Less bounce from the back end and smoother overall. Input from the steering is much more positive and the truck is more predictable. One of the best things is I was actually able to easily hop into the bed of the truck and no climbing needed to get in and out of the cab! If you are curious, I am running 20 x 9 wheels with an ET of +33 with 265/50r20 tires with no clearance issues at all.

Really looks great. Is your truck a 2wd or a 4x4? I'm assuming the rear modification is relocating the springs to be under the axle?
 
Hell, I thought I had.
 

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Hell, I thought I had.
I'm sorry. I meant pics of the parts used for lowering the rear axle. Pics of the rear axle after the parts were put on. Type of stuff.
 
Here you go. Not pictured is the full shackle. Since I was going with 5.0 inches of lowering, I trimmed the hole used for lowering it 4.0 inches
 

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So the leaf springs were relocated to "under" the axle to give 5" of drop? and 2'' Drop spindles for the front?
 
So the leaf springs were relocated to "under" the axle to give 5" of drop? and 2'' Drop spindles for the front?
The rear end now sits on top the the leaf springs. The axle is mounted below the leaf springs form the factory. The front lowering is performed with an adjustable height strut. A new upper control arm is in the process of being produced by Belltech which will allow for 3 inches of drop. The ETA is currently 2-3 on the control arm
 
I purchased and installed the Belltech kit this past week. The kit is very well made and the installation was pretty straight forward. I lowered the front 2.5 inches and the rear 5.0 inches
This is great!

Did you take any pics when you installed the front?
 

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