static drop: how can I go lower?

My stops are gone in the front, and cut down in the rear, with overload springs and air shocks. Front torsions reindexed, flipped upper and lower bj's. 3" angled blocks in the rear as well.

Oh yeah, I still have a pretty decent ride 90% of the time. Once the 50's go on the front, and the 60's go on the back, I'll be another inch lower.

i am actually thinkin of buying 4" angled blocks and re indexing my torsion bars... idk yet though... right now i'm more concerned about my 81...

Can't do 4"ers till you notch or else you'll ride your frame lol...yes with your airshocks you can keep it off the frame, but then what's the purpose of the 4" blocks

since you mentioned safety... i'd like to point out that without ride quality, there's no safety. if you don't have suspension travel, your tires won't stay on the ground as much as they shoulld, which in turn results in loss of control and no safety
removing your torsion bars is definately not safe - from a safety standpoint. i'm not saying i haven't done it. but its not safe. cranking them down, flipping ball joints and having the weight of the truck on the bolts isn't safe either.
running drop blocks is most definately not safe. notice your u-bolts hanging down below the bottom of your wheel? what if you get a flat tire and your ubolts drag on the ground and you lose control and crash. not safe either.

so. where are you now? you just lost like 10 safety points dude.

once again i'm not saying i haven't done any of this stuff... i have. you mentioned safety, so i thought i'd give my 2 cents.i say notch your frame so you have that suspension travel to keep your tires on the ground like they are supposed to be. bag your truck, because at this point it seems safer to me!!!!

I have Toxic drop shocks all the way around. They were installed on January 10th. I paid $77 CDN each for them.


Speedster,I agree with you to an extent of all the safety hazards you mentioned....but what I meant by safety is that it's not doing a hack job,or having someone,such as myself,who is inexperienced performing the work. I had a licenced technician do all my suspension work,and I helped him out because I wanted to learn how to do it. While yes, flipped bj's could be considered a hack job,every time I do an oil change,I check all my bolts in the front and back. As for the U-bolts,they were trimmed.

I really would like to bag my truck,but it's not going to happen this year because I have lots of other stuff left to do on it,and I need to drive the truck daily.

oh,how exactly do the air shocks work?

just curious... what's the collapsed height on your shocks? you might/prolly can use them even if you go down more... they are 'lowered' shocks right?

my air shocks drop low. collapsed i think they are like 28" or some shit... want me to go measure? when you air it up, it works like a bag and gives you a bit of lift...

What happens if a bag blows out while going down the highway, or all of a sudden an airline pops off or blows? Then you're hittin the ground at 65-70mph right? Full frame contact! While I understand statics can be done wrong, and be hack jobs, but I personally feel safer with mine static than having bags and the fear of one of the things I listed above happening. Any thing can happen in either case tbh.

The safest static would be to go with dropped control arms, maybe spindles, and dropped rear leaves...but you'd still need a notch in the rear and some sort of blocks in all likely hood to be as low as I am now. Btw I do plan to go with control arms and rear springs one of these days