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Originally Posted by see ten

I really don't think so. I looked at drops a long long time before we did this truck. I considered bags and even considered a Fatman rack & pinion frontend. My drop with me and my buds doing everything but the alignment, building the driveshaft and installing the upper control arm bushings (didn't realize I needed them until I had it aligned ) set me back right at $1800. A rough estimate for air bags using top of the line parts was coming in at around $3000. I know there are guys on here who have done it for way less than that but how I wanted it done was going to cost $$$. A lot of guys still run drop spindles with bags due to it allowing you to run a higher psi for a better ride. Figure in the cost of a good management system that automaticly self levels the vehicle to adjust for load and you've dropped another chunk of change. If you want an engine driven compressor, your wallet is getting thinner by the minute here! There are guys on here whose ability to fabricate simply amazes me! Some of these people have built air bag systems for what seems like pennies. They are like Napolean Dynamite they've got Skills. Me on the other hand.....well I try to just buy parts that are built for my application most of the time (no skills ). Some of you may remember that guy who was in Pigeon Forge at the NATs in 05 with the sweet little yellow and white bagged truck everyone was having a fit over. I recall him getting in it to move it for some magazine shots and one of his bags wouldn't go up. I think this was about the point I decided I didn't want to run bags. This truck obviously had no expense spared during his build but here he was looking emberrassed cause he couldn't............ uh get it up.

Me Again.. Did you have to do something with your driveshaft because of doing the suspension drop?. Were your upper control arm bushings just wore out from age or did they need redoing cause of the drop as well ? I'm kinda getting ready to do the drop thing and dont want any surprises.