I was not trying to offend anyone with the safety comment, just thought it was interesting, and almost funny.
here is my explanation of why we seem concerned with the safety of a dropped axle, and the other guys don't. I might not be right, but this is what I thought of.
The other guys accept dropped axles a viable option, they have heard about them and seen them a lot, and for a long time, with very few, if any, stores of failures. So it is a common and accepted practice to them.
On the other hand we over here at the Stovebolt are generally more traditional and not such radical hot roders, we therefore have less experience and familiarity with dropped axles. By nature when we don't know about something, or don't understand it, we just assume it's not safe, or it's a bad idea for the simple fact that we have not heard that much about it.
After reading the post on the other site, and looking at the pictures I am beginning to warm up to the idea of dropping axles.
Although still don't think they have a place on a working truck. But if it was a working truck you would not want the bumper dragging to start with, would you?
Grigg
