sonikk71
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Wow...My dawg was at just about every level of static drop after I bought it new in 1992. Here we go....
Stage 1.
It all started with my buying a brand new 1992 LE-5 cab plus. I was stoked. I had known I had wanted a mazda forever and I had bought it with the intention of cutting it up! I started with the basics. I bought a set of 15 inch boyds tri fan wheels and 195/50/15 tires. I found a local guy who claimed he knew how to lower a truck and he installed 3 inch blocks and cranked the torsions down to match. I was slammed ! What I didn't realize was that he never put the little centering pin in when he installed my blocks so my truck was "dogwalking" down the street. My wife noticed this a few days later and I got it fixed when I had it in for an alighnment a day later.
Stage 2.
A month or 2 later I met this guy named Rob with a yota that was just on the ground! (he was bout an inch off the pavement) I was amazed. How did he drive it? How did he get that low? I had never seen such a low truck. He was in a club called sittin pretti. Little did I know the effect meeting that guy would have on me and the psychosis that would develop hanging with this "club". I started hanging with the club and soon I was a member of sittin pretti. I need to be lower (but I didn't want to be crazy like the guy with the yota. Little did I know....) So Rob and I just pulled a middle leaf in the back and cranked down the torsions again. I was now pretty much sittin on the factory bumpstops. I just couldn't stand the ride so we trimmed the bumpstops in half. I was now like 5 inches from stock!
Stage 3.
It was at this point I lost it, the bug bit me bad and I wanted to be low. I ditched my boyds trifans for some wheels that tucked, cut the front bumpstops down to pretty much nothing, and cut the back bumpstops to be level with the height of my u bolts. I had ride but wasn't low enough. So I cranked the torsions down again and flipped one the of the middle leafs in the back. That got me down but again the ride was bad and the rear wasn't gonna go any lower.
Stage 4.
I was all done by this point, the pavement worshipping was in full effect and sick of crappy ride I cut out the front bumpstop mounts and had my freind with the yota C notch my dawg. ( ididn't want to cut up my pretty bed floor with a monster or bridge notch. Stupid me again! I should have just listened.) I cranked the torsions down and removed all of my leafs except the main one and the short "helper leaf". The short leaf was on the top. this was cool but I was bottomed out on my factory shocks. Not good. But I was low! By this pint I was about and inch and half off the ground and while it was low i was not slammed.
Stage 5.
A few moths later I had lost all sanity at this point there was no goin back. I decided I needed to be lower so I bought a some djm lowered control arms and had my truck back at Robs house for a monster notch! We sleeved the front leaf spring perches up. (about another inch and a half I think)We raised my exhaust. When we layed the truck back down it was flat on the ground. Not good on a truck that has a static drop so we took my rear leaf and placed the "helper leaf (the really thick short leaf) back on the bottom. re- indexed and cranked the torsions back up a bit and all was good. I was half and inch off the ground at the front crossmember. I was slammed! this was also right after the dog had just been shaved and and gone from black to yellow. I loved rolling and pullin turtles everywhere I went. It was a natural cure for tailgaters!
Stage 6.
The Dawg went back into Rob's for a 3 link and a airshocks. The day we finished the airshocks I left for spring splash to drop my dawg off to Brian Jendro of the Chop Shop to body drop it! That was 1995! Woot! First dawg in Wa. to have a body drop!