[rudey737]

That is definitely a horror story, radar1. I'm sorry to hear about your trouble.

I started out with a McGaughy's 4.5/6 drop. I was dumb and didn't rebuild the front end for about 3 months after I lowered it. That meant I didn't shell out some money for an alignment during that 3 months. Bad idea! The bad toe in destroyed my front tires.

So, I put new front tires on it, rebuilt the front end, and got an alignment. Everything was fine, right? Wrong. The front was too low, in my opinion, and rubbed every time I turned right or left. This was with 215/75/15 tires on the front. They are approximately 27.7" tall. I then ordered 1.5" drop springs from Western Chassis and installed them last week. After that, I took the truck in for an alignment. Now everything is perfect. The truck sits almost level - the rear tires are actually 0.5" taller than the front.

I typed all this out for two reasons. The first to let you guys know that dropping these isn't an exact science. There are so many variables that, even had I done everything at once, I still would have ended up replacing the 2" springs with 1.5" springs. The second is that I wouldn't go much smaller in my front tires than I already have. Like Rich84 said, you can get too close to the ground with smaller tires and start running into issues with the scrub line of the truck.