Yours looks much better than factory now, I dig it. Every day that goes by since I lowered mine my dislike for the factory "*** all up in the clouds" look gets worse. Now when I see them I just think "why the hell did they do that".

Anyway if you want to go 2 more on each end, have you looked at the rough country 2/4 kit? It's really low cost and would give you the measurements you're after. You could do a 1" drop shackle with their rear flip kit to make it a 5" rear drop.

 

I already have dell tech front lowering struts to put on the front. Just need the rear kit. I’ll have to look in to that. Thanks.

 

No problem, there's lots of good reviews on the rough country kit too, noticed a lot of people specifically stated the kit was high quality.

 

Just another tip, remove the last 4 bed bolts if you do not want to smash the metal bed seams with a hammer. I didn't want to chip my paint and cause any extra corrosion so I did it that way.

If you remove 2 bed bolts from each side it allows the bed to push up and clear the top of the frame for the shackle bolts. With the hitch gone it makes quick work of the bolts with a electric impact gun.

 

There off road stuff is pretty good so I’m sure the lowering stuff will be just as good. I looked at the kits and I like the price. Way less then the bell tech flip kit.

 

I agree and I already decided that the next time I do it I'll remove all bolts except the last two by the cab, just loosen those, and stick a couple of pieces of wood between the bed and frame. Part of the reason I notched them is because I had heard some of the shackles hit if you don't clearance those rails. I was in a hurry so I didn't even test the theory like I normally would. Usually I am more like you and don't want to introduce any issues but I could just light sand it and spray paint it at some point. I also have a bed cover and underneath it the bed is scratched so I wasn't as worried about it. If my bed had been pristine when I bought the truck I probably would have also been more concerned.

Yeah that's what got me, super low cost and really good reviews.

 

A couple of days ago I put the shackles at the highest hole ( most amount of drop ) and checked the alignment again. I need to correct what I said before, there's plenty of alignment adjustability left, I maxed it out before because I was shooting for over 5 degrees of caster, but that's a personal preference.

I DID NOT shim the rear end because my drive line vibration is better than ever, I've always had a vibration from around 54-60 or so MPH under heavy acceleration and it's now almost gone. Best I can tell I'm around 2 degrees of pinion angle too, which is great.

The truck was bouncing off the rear bump stops so I cut one nub off of them and the truck rides excellent, I really dig this whole setup.

The cheapy shock extenders I got at PEP Boys fit great and went in super easy. Ride effex 13-6540

 

I think I cut one rung off the bump stops too but never did the shock extenders. I don't touch when just driving around and maybe a huge bump would contact but I can't really tell.

 

I could lightly tell before I cut them, it actually just felt like I had some stiff shocks, it rode stiffer.

I'm sure I'll still bounce off of them when I pull the boat but I pull short distances, I'm only a few miles from the lake so no biggie.

I did the shock extenders to hopefully not bottom out the shocks, I think they would have been okay but the extenders were only $23 so why not..

 

Alotta good info here- truck looks really righteous...…….