Truck Drop Question

Bl0wn Phuze · Jun 20th, 2003, 03:56 PM

I have a 92 pickup 4X4 and i was thinking of dropping it 3"- 4". I was just wondering how hard it will be to do.

Dan-zig · Jun 22nd, 2003, 01:42 PM

I'm curious, why would you want to drop a 4X4...seems kinda like a waste to me. Well there are many ways to go about. The easiest would be just to cut the springs.

Bl0wn Phuze · Jun 22nd, 2003, 02:17 PM

where i am there isnt many places for me to off-road because of the lack of open space and all of the anal people and police so i thought that i would try to make it in to a show truck. that is why i would want to lower my truck. i am thinking about just getting a set of lowering blocks and putting them on there

aaronford · Jun 22nd, 2003, 02:20 PM

Well, dan-zig is partly right, but you just can't cut torsion bars or leaf springs. So here goes. The front will be easy, just loosen off the torsion bars. You will lose suspension range, but you are lowering a 4x4, so there you go. You would probably have to remove the overload bushings to recover any suspension at all. In the rear, remove rearend, cut off spring perches and relocate to bottom of axle tube. Reinstall rearend. Install drop blocks if this does not lower it enough. Remove the factory installed body lift bushings and replace with 2WD ones. Now have your custom length driveshafts manufactured and work out the bugs. You will have about $2K involved in doing this right and it still will be unreliable and drive horribly. Good luck getting it inspected, much less aligned. My money would be spent on a 2WD where most of this work is already done for you. Driveshafts can still be a problem, though.

Dan-zig · Jun 23rd, 2003, 02:00 PM

well have fun gettin the shaft while doing it!
i would recommend selling the truck, because 4wD is worth something, and then buying another 2wd truck.

Bl0wn Phuze · Jun 24th, 2003, 02:13 PM

yeah i have decided to either lift it or sell it and buy a 2wd as you have said it is way too much work and money to lower

aaronford · Jun 24th, 2003, 02:28 PM

There is a killer dopped Nissan painted a wild metal flake green with a convertible top, bitchin alloys, and customized to the max in my neighborhood for 2500 or 3500 dollars. I will find out the price and post a pic when I can. This is providing you are somewhere on the East Coast. The truck is in Morgantown, WV, 2 hours south of Pittsburgh.

It would be a perfect candidate for a RB25det conversion!!!