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Originally Posted by SkinnyG
All my daily drivers have been lowered, and my current daily is a '77 C10 with 3" spindles, cut 1-ton springs, a flip kit out back, and a notched frame. It might be a 5/6 drop, I never really measured. I still haul lots of stuff, and certainly have opinions....
If you're not going to track the thing at all, don't waste your money on adjustable shocks and coilovers. Just get a quality name-brand set of lowering springs for a 2/4 drop and call it done. If you need to spend money, buy sway bars - they are worth it.
The only thing I would recommend is some helper air bags to assist carrying heavy stuff or hauling your trailer. You can air them up only when you need to.
One of my biggest things is: "I'm 300 miles north of nowhere, and I need X part." If the parts are all basically stock parts, you can get replacements anywhere.
But that's just my opinion.
My '61 will run a mostly stock-part suspension, but I will be doing a lot of cutting to get it sitting where I want.
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Skinny G...I appreciate the information....Im not going to track it...sure I may drive it kinda fast in a straight line from time to time but that's about it....definitely not gonna be a racer. I highly doubt that that there will be much weight ever put in the bed, I have some Ash wood that I am going to mill for the bed along with some polished stainless strips that I got from Mar-K.
My question would be what would most consider a "Quality' set of springs? Does this mean they need to be dual rate?