The Stupid Lowered Questions Thread

OBSOkie said:

Yeah I was already looking at a notch and shock extenders. Im just going to go ahead and get a full 4/6 kit and redo it so I know exactly whats on it.

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Fair enough.
I would highly recommend the Belltech kit.
Comes with everything you need, including lower shock extensions, tranny spacer and the notch is nice and beefy.
I went with the Street Performer shocks as they are well reviewed and recommended. And they are only a few bucks more that the Nitro ones.

Take a boo at my build thread and see what obstacles I came across.
And definitely take your bed off if you can. Makes it a LOT easier!!!

Did some more investigating tonight and redid my measurements. So Im 16.5” in front and 15” in the rear from center of hub to lip of fenderwell. Also from looking at how the spindles look decently and my coils look stock, im curious if the drop ended up like a 2/6 lol. I dont know much about lowering kits yet but is there something I can measure on the flip kit or is a 4” drop usually done with shackles or something?

At this point I think Im going to get drop springs for the back, and shock extenders for the back.

Trying to figure out what spindles I have but I need to pull the disc off this weekend to see the outboard side. All I see on the inboard side is a casting number of 14444 and the L and R numbers.

I was looking around here to find a thread I read a little while ago, it mentioned you can get an additional drop from 4" to 4.5" or 4.75" by removing one or both of the short plates on the 5950 belltech 4" leafs. I didnt find that thread but found this one is still alive and figured i'd share what i found when installing the belltech 5950 rear leafs.



I did one side at a time to help keep things aligned when i bolted things back up.. and What i noticed was that the rear end (that was supported by jackstands so it wouldnt shift) would not line up with the bolt on the leaf. It appeared that the rear would need to shift up (on the ujoint side). I went ahead and snugged up the driver side while i removed the passenger side. Once I installed the passenger side leaf I indeed found i had to put a jack under the front of the rear and slightly raise it and both sides of the leaf bolts popped right in at the same time. I'm not sure about the "shims" and what they did but i'm guessing that Belltech as a bolt on to OEM specs somehow worked in the pinion angle on the newer leafs? Don't take my word on this, but pinion angle seems right on mine with no shims.