Hi, I have a 2000 Silverado 1500 2wd with coils in the front. I installed 1” drop springs and only got .5 inches. I installed the top insulator and the bottom. Something is telling me it did not need the bottom one. Also when installing to the lca there’s no coil stop or lip. Is this normal.....I just dropped it in and that was it. Can anyone help me to figure what I did right and wrong. Thanks

 

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They are just 1” total drop. There should be only a top insulator and that’s it correct. I did this about a month ago.

 

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I put the same insulator on top and bottom too....can’t find the stock bottoms anywhere.

 

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Well I was thinking if I took the bottom isolator off then it would drop it another .5. It would then make my front leveled with the back.

 

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I wonder how many car forums this sort of thing has been posted to.

"Lower" is a REALTIVE term. Meaning, it's talking about LOWER THAN, something. The question then becomes, lower than WHAT.

Most often it's applied to the STOCK height. Production line, off the rail car, showroom, BRAND NEW. Your "1 inch lowering springs" are designed to make your truck 1" lower than it was when BRAND NEW. Not necessarily "lower THAN" whatever its height is NOW.

It's not like you open a box that has "lower" printed on it, pull out the bottle, pour it all over your [whatever], and it just instamagically jumps "a meter" closer to the center of the Earth. Just doesn't work that way.

There are PLENTY of reports from people who installed "lowering" springs into their 35-yr-old hooptie, and they RAISED the car from wherever its sagging, wore-out, bent, decrepit, crappy, floppy-loose, old stock wore-out crappy crap stock "computer selected" Wxx or Fxx springs had sagged to. (Did I mention, CRAP...) Not at all impossible that this is what happened to you. Your old wore-out crap stock springs had ALREADY sagged by ½", so your "lowering" springs that were supposed to "lower" it by a full inch, DID. COMPARED TO NEW. Compared to "now", maybe, not so much.

 

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