Some good points and some real bad points . Hot Rod is way off base .Anytime you can get the center of gravity lower its a good thing . Most any good alignment shop can do a good job getting caster/camber and bumpsteer fixed up after lowering . Not sears . Not Pep Boys .Not your local high school teacher. Not your local car dealer . Not for 49.95 either. If it does not cost you over 100 bucks they did not do there job. Somebody that still knows how to use simple gauges and tape measures . You do not need any computer programs to figure out all this stuff unless your looking for 1/100th at a cup race. I work on and build an open wheeled mod circle track car that we do drawings of the old fashion way,full scale to set up . We win .The daully that hauls our 5th wheel trailer is also lowered and at about 14,000 GVW and has no problems traveling in excess of 40,000 miles a year most times allways way over the speed limit. Its safer lower and in most peoples opinion just looks better . If your truck was to haul say off road i would leave it at stock height. With your old truck i think i would swap out the complete crossmember to the newer style . We have done it in one day. Droped spindles are the way to go but you can buy new lighter rate springs and cut them. Remember back when somebody said as you cut them the rate goes up. When you do the camber and caster you will have to put about a 3/4 inch spacer and new longer upper a-frame bolts . I like grade 5 but must guys will use a grade 8 . It makes it much safer , you wont have a big stack of shims just a few with a 3-5 inch drop . One last fact about lowering,if done correctly it will handle better .If you spring it correctly it will also handle any load and drive as good if not better than a stock height truck .
