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| | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 209 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 209 | Ok so i am gonna drop my truck by putting shorter coil springs. I bought 3" coil springs for the front and 4" coil springs for the rear and i have the shocks to go with them. Will this affect anything to do with the control arms and will the tires be at a slant. I bought these coil springs at Brothers trucks and the guy said they would fit good. But my teacher from school said they might slant or something.
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 148 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 148 | you will need to get an alignment after you put them on. the tires will have a lot of negative camber (slant inwards) from the shorter springs, but an alignment will straighten things out.
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1959 chevy 36
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 209 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 209 | Oh ok..We will see wat happens. I am gonna take my truck to school on monday and see wat happens. Thank you
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| | | | | | Anonymous Unregistered | | Anonymous Unregistered | I read you other post and looks like you got her lowered. Do you have any pictures? It looked great before...now it is probably just saweeeet!!! So you just used drop coils and shocks? I know you did it at school, but how stressful was it? Did you remove the bed? Does your front wheels now slant inwards like you had feared? Can you post some pictures somewhere? or if you still have my email I would love to see them! Thanks! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 209 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 209 | I put it on the lift and didnt have to remove the bed at all. The only thing that was hard was getting those old bolts off of the springs. But it was a good experience. It is real easy to do though. If i could do it anyone could. Well it needed an alignemnt. Was off a bit. But it is all good now. I need to some work on the control arm by putting those control arm bumpers on the lower ones. Someone cut one of them off so i decided to cut the other one off and somehow drill a hole into it so i can put a diff type of bumper on it. But i will send you a pic of my truck. Give me your email address. I dont think i have it anymore.
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