lowering info

[Anonymous]

have any of you guys lowered your post 56 f100's? how did you do it?

 

[Anonymous]

You may already be up to speed with this...But Sacramento Vintage Ford as well as other vendors have a few lowering options. Its pretty strait forward. It just depends on how low you want to go as well as how much you want to spend on the setup.


Brad

 

[Anonymous]

the only place i have found lowering springs is at sacramento vintage and classic performance parts, but i was just looking for opinions about how the best way to do it is.also was kinda hoping that someone knew a place that had a custom lowering axle, like the one classic performance has for the post 56 trucks. also, has anyone dropped one of these trucks with the stock axles and used air bags.

 

[Anonymous]

You can flip the rear axle on top of the leafpack pretty easy/ inexpensively and adjust the spring pack or rear shackle for ride or drop amount. I will be using the smaller 2500LB rated bags up front with 2-3 leaves left in the pack. I am going to have my stock front axle dropped when the budget allows.

Mike

 

[Anonymous]

here's a thought. if you take the leaves from the bottom of the spring and move them to the top and them you get a lower stance in the process? but will the spring still have it's laod carrying capacity/ is this possible?

 

[StrangeRanger]

It's called a flip and it's the stadard way of doing the rear half of a 5/7 drop on late model trucks.

The problem is that you reduce the distance between axle and frame so much that your load carrying ability goes away. The "solution" is to notch the frame and weld in reinforcements around the notch. I do not like this solution. The flexural strength of the frame is proportional to the flange-to-flange vertical height to the third power, i.e. H^3. If you reduce it only sligthly, you weaken it a lot.

 

[ludwig]

How about mid- or low-eye leaf springs, like from Mustangs Plus? Front end would be dropped spindles or some sort of solid front axle. Last month HOT ROD there wes a guy who did a real lowering job with stock parts only. Course he couldn't clear a speed bump.