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Rooster's82 · 05-07-2008, 10:17 PM

I talked to a guy at the local performance shop about dropping my truck with lowering springs and hangers and shackles. He said a couple of things that i want to get some opinions on:

Drop springs change the geometry of your suspension and make your ride suck. He also said that alignments would be a problem with them. (i have never heard this before...is it true, will i end up chewing up my tires?)

With hangers and shackles i will have to do a c notch as well or else i will bottom out all the time. Isn't there a happy medium that i can lower to with out having to do a c notch?

I was under the impression you could do a 3/5 drop with springs and H/S and end up with a decent ride.

....is it worth it to pony up the money and use spindles and do the c notch?

05-07-2008, 10:17 PM	#1
Rooster's82 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Clearwater FL Posts: 271	Lowering springs I talked to a guy at the local performance shop about dropping my truck with lowering springs and hangers and shackles. He said a couple of things that i want to get some opinions on: Drop springs change the geometry of your suspension and make your ride suck. He also said that alignments would be a problem with them. (i have never heard this before...is it true, will i end up chewing up my tires?) With hangers and shackles i will have to do a c notch as well or else i will bottom out all the time. Isn't there a happy medium that i can lower to with out having to do a c notch? I was under the impression you could do a 3/5 drop with springs and H/S and end up with a decent ride. ....is it worth it to pony up the money and use spindles and do the c notch? __________________ JG If you can't find it at the junk yard you don't need it. Last edited by Rooster's82; 05-07-2008 at 10:19 PM.



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