Car Dude

Car dude, did you vinyl wrap the chome on your truck? I noticed it was black instead of chrome. Yea I had the door trim wrapped. It cost like $120 if I remember correctly.

My bad at a quick glance I read BOB instead of 808.

Bob it sounds like you need to be the Guinea pig and tell us how it goes lol. I have been wanting to lower the front of mine about 1.5" since before I bought it late 2018. I also heard the bell techs did not ride all that great so I never tried them. I dont want to go to low in the front because of the limited options for the rear without doing a flip kit and a c notch.

So if the rings are not installed the result would be a 2" drop or so?

My 19 does the same thing. Its been like that since the day I drove it off the lot.

I don't drive a lot of highway miles. I can't say I saw any difference in mileage. I have heard claims of people picking up mpg from a air intake but I have never experienced it from any I have installed.

The problem is even if you can find a 2" lift shackle there still will be very limited travel in the rear. If someone made a good set of 2" dropped leaf springs along with a 2" drop shackle that would keep the rear under the leaf spring and the rear would still have decent travel.

I can relate. In a perfect world I would like to lower mine about 1.5" in the front and 3" in the rear. The drop struts would work on the front but I have heard they don't ride great. The back pretty much goes from a 2" shackle to a flip kit with nothing in between. IHC has a kit that includes a flip kit and a lift shackle but the travel on the rear is compromised so they use airbags to help. Really the whole problem with the rear is the hanger can't be relocated.

DJM and IHC sell 3" control arms which means you definitely will need to do a flip kit to get the back down. It would be cool if someone sold 2" control arms.

How are you going to drop the back? With dropping the front 2" and the back already 2" higher than the front there will be a 4" rake front to back. Even with a 2" shackle in the rear it will have 2 inches of rake which will be more noticeable with less wheel well gap. I have not seen a 2" control arm for the T1 trucks yet. So the spindle or struts would be the current options.

I would be very impressed if they gained 40 hp and 48 lbs from headers only and no tune. Seems a little ambitious.

Awesome truck. What kit did you use to lower it?

I had this same issue on the rear passenger side. I had the dealer look at it and they order another shock. They put it on and I drove home from the dealership and looked up under the truck to see the new shock or see if they replaced both. I noticed the new passenger side shock looked a little dirty. Then I noticed the front seal on the rear end is leaking which is slinging oil on the shock. This was most likely the issue the whole time. I thought the shock was leaking but it was the rear end seal that is leaking.

Definitely didn't make it 50 miles maybe half that.