Jump to content

Lowering Kit

hmsbusch5

Recommended Posts

hmsbusch5 Enthusiast

hmsbusch5

Posted
Posted

Hi Guys, Been along time since I have posted. Just wanted to drop a note saying I just ordered a lowering kit for my truck. Looking forward to receiving it and getting it on. I ordered a Mcgaughys 4/7 lowering kit and new rear shocks. It will make a big difference in the look. I am pumped ready to get it. Hopefully install over x-mas break. Will put up pics when I get it installed. Take care, Jim

  • 5 weeks later...
hmsbusch5 Enthusiast

hmsbusch5

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Well after ordering my kit on the 11th, I guess it will be here tuesday. As of right now I do not recommend the company I ordered the kit from. I will not name them on here but if you would like to know PM me. I ordered my kit and shocks on the 11th. The 12th I ordered spring hangers from another company. The spring hangers were dropped shipped from McGaughys and received it the Tuesday before xmas. So I called the other company that I ordered Kit and shocks from asking for a tracking number. They said they would email it when they got it. Never heard anything from them. So after a few more days I called them again. Still I didnt get a tracking number but said it would be 7 to 10 days. I emailed them and no response. So I am getting nervous. I just spent $680 and dont know when or if I will get my kit. I have my wife call them. She was told McGaughys was shut down for 2 weeks for the holidays. So the order was being dropped shipped from McGaughys. Just was telling me they drug their feet ordering because I had already received my other package and was ordered a day after I ordered my kit. He told her that they tried to send out all orders before xmas. If we didnt get it by Monday after new years to call him. Because McGaughys would be opened back up. Well of course we didnt get it, so she called them that monday. Finally heard from them on Tuesday with a tracking number after calling them again. Said the order was shipped out on Tuesday. So it looks like they never ordered the kit from McGaughys like they said they did. Because it would look like it would have been shipped out on that monday when they got back to work. Now this company we are having problems with isnt McGaughys. This company even has large adds in Truckin magazine. Awesome prices the lowest I could fine. But the customer service sucks. If they would have told me McGaughys was shut down you can understand the delay. And also they had already took their money so after a mth is should be here Tuesday. After I get it on I will post pics and how it was to install. Some friends and I are doing all the work. Sorry so long!!

hmsbusch5 Enthusiast

hmsbusch5

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Well guys and girls, finally got my lowering kit last Tuesday. I installed it Tuesday and Wednesday night. It wasnt a bad kit to put on. I did 95% of the work by myself. I worked about 3 hrs a night. So a total of 6hrs I installed the kit. A friend of my at work has a home shop and it has a lift in it. The lift makes life much easier. The first night I done all the work in the front end. I took the struts with me. On the way to work on Wednesday I dropped the struts off at Meineke to have the springs changed. I picked them up on the way home and installed them when I got to the shop. Then on to the back. The most difficult part of the whole job was to get the rearend on the topside of the springs. I did it by not dissconnecting anything. I hung the rearend with tiedown straps from the chassis. Swung the rearend to each side to get the springs past the rearend. You could only take the rear spring down. To get the front bolt out you would have to drop the fuel tank and I wasnt going to do that. The swinging of the rearend is where I needed the help. Had to man handle it pretty good. I also bought with the kit rear spring hangers. So I had to take the old ones out and replace with new ones.

 

The kit was Mcgaughys 4/7 drop part number 34004, you have to buy new rear shocks part number 2050 and I also bought the spring hangers part number 93049. Its a very well made kit. Also a very good company to call if you have questions on installation. I have added pics before and after. Sorry for the filthy after pics. Here in NC it got cold enough the have cut off most car washes for freezing. I am sure I forgot something so just ask. Here is a good article in Truckin magazine that is exactly my same project with pics http://www.truckinweb.com/tech/suspension/...rado/index.html

 

Before IMG_0693.jpg

After IMG_20090118_0154.jpg

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Forum Statistics

    250.6k
    Total Topics
    2.7m
    Total Posts

  • Member Statistics

    343,007
    Total Members
    8,960
    Most Online
    Brendan C
    Newest Member
    Brendan C
    Joined

  • Who's Online   0 Members, 0 Anonymous, 1,071 Guests (See full list)

    • There are no registered users currently online

  • Latest Articles

  • Posts

    • Grumpy Bear
      Joke Thread

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

    • Grumpy Bear
      The Peckish Synapse

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      You're better read than that Atlas. 😏   British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law – that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" – is the best known and most widely cited.   Stribeck and the pivotable Hersey Number isn't voodoo nor snake oil. That part is physics. It's what marketing and bean counters do with it that is snake oil and voodoo.    Stribeck is the relationship between Hersey and the Coefficient of Friction. Within the Hersey Equation if viscosity and viscosity is 'Dependent' on.......heat.......and.......viscosity index or the temperature to viscosity slope.    Specifically Hersey is the viscosity AT THE TEMPERATURE IN THAT LOCATION FOR THAT SLOPE.   Hydrodynamic lubrication exist when the film thickness in the location is 3X the Ra roughness of the surface. This is irrespective of the hardness of the substrate. To obtain that thickness X viscosity is required for Y velocity at Z load. That's a lot of moving parts. It is also impossible to maintain in an ICE but nearly possible with a turbine under constant load.    What does that mean? Error heavy and operate light. Wear is inevitable but the rate of wear and the milage obtainable are a function of prevailing conditions and HABITS. The only penalty is viscous drag and at fractions so low as to be well worth the effort. Double the life, half the manufacturing carbon foot print. Greed is the only impediment.    The materials generated by SwRI are the RESULT not an estimation or a hypothesis.    Don't delude yourself sir, EV's have as many pitfalls as ICE's. We just don't know what they are yet and it will take longer to sort as MARKETING and GREEDY CEO's have had more time to polish the turd they are selling. 
    • Grumpy Bear
      The Peckish Synapse

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      You can always count on greed to prey on ignorance and stupidity.    Friend bought a 2019 Ford Flex and asked me about using Valvoline R&P 5W30 in it. Told him give the miles on it and the fact it wasn't yet using oil that it was a good plan. He uses a Valvoline quick change shop for his oil service.   First they tell him that isn't the oil the OEM recommends. He told them he didn't care what the OEM thought. Then they floated the, "But it will void your warranty"    His reply was it's a 2019, there is no warranty and informed them their knowledge of the law was lacking.    Then they tell him 'But it will ruin your motor"!.    Mine to ruin he says. Finally they give in and charge him 150% the semi-syn price    Point it the brainwash is so embedded that even the service industry is drunk on their swill. The public is right behind them. Echoing the same lies on every forum and media platform. If the end goal is indeed EV then I'd say that ship is about built. 
    • CamGTP
      Gas Prices

      By CamGTP · Posted

      Diesel hit $6.00 here today at the truck stop.   Payed $2.79 for E85 today too.
    • richard wysong
      Electrical Problem - solved

      By richard wysong · Posted

      Thanks for posting, I'm sure it will help someone

  • GM-Trucks.com Clubs

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...