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So, these first two pictures are the old Dodge sitting at it's current ride height. The rear may look a bit high/forward in the wheelwell but that's because I already had it all the way up once before I thought to take a static picture.
These two pics are of the truck sitting 3" higher. The front is actually 3" while the rear is 2.5" The rear wouldn't drop any farther, I'm assuming because of the shocks. I personally think the truck looks mighty fine sitting at this height. The front springs have actual positive arch at this height, which I didn't think to get a pic of, and the draglink's angles don't seem that uncalled for to me. I'm going to have the spring shop make me a set of parabolic front leaves with this being the max height they're allowed to achieve. (it's actually pretty tough for me to get under the hood or in the bad at that height, but I am pretty short. (I suppose that blows your short = bad attitude argument out of the water, huh, Caleb?)
A warning for anyone wanting to do just a simple shackle flip, it will put your pinion angles out of sync. My drivetrain has a vibration now above 50mph that makes the trans really chatty. I'll also address this in a bit, I just wanted to make sure I got these loaded.
As for this vibration, I intend to use a combination of longer shackles and extending the3 front spring eye to get the pinion angle right. My shackles are standing just about straight up right now, which ain't good for the ride, so I may move the front eye rearward as well if I need to to get it lay'd out some.
I've never messed with suspension stuff before so this'll be a cool new path for me to head down on the fabrication front. Anything I buy for the frontend will end up under the RC and anything I learn in the rear will probably be applied there as well.
And here's the lifting jig I used.
I'm still intending to get new, parabolic leaves for the front end of the truck, so I'll try to get ~2" of lift up there and raise my forward, rear spring eye to match.
