I was at Orig Equip here in San Angelo and was asking about some 2" drop shackles for my truck for a temporary drop. The guy working there said that to drop the extended cabs with the shackles you have to spend an extra $150-$200 to align the drive shaft and everything. I know for extreme changes you would have to do this, but is this true for a 2" drop? My friend has a pre-1999 body style extended cab with shackles and it drives just fine. A younger guy that worked there that seemed more knowledgeable of suspensions said that he had dropped them with the shackles all the time and it never needed the realignment.

 

I dropped my 00 GMC 4" (shackle / hanger) and never shimmed anything. Not a hint of any vibration. I think you will be fine. I'll only charge you $100.00 for the info so you're money ahead. lol

LK

 

Oh, and if you are ever looking for anything here in San Angelo, go somewhere besides Orig Equip. I don't wanna go into it, but the guy was a total and complete @$$ the entire time I was there and talked down to me until I left. Not a good businessman at ALL! I am still pissed at some of the things he said!

 

Lol, ok thanks Al, that's what I thought all along.

 

Bought some Belltech drop shackles at O'Reilly's tonight, I'll let you guys know how they look when I get them on.

 

Got them installed last night. The only problem I ran into was the factory trailer hitch was in the way of the bolts for the shackles so they could not come out. Just cut a notch out on each side and they came right out. I don't think it was a load bearing area of the hitch so towing shouldn't go down any, not that I ever tow anything very heavy anyway, just a jet ski. Looks a lot better now though and quick install other than the modification of the hitch, we installed some on a friend's 95 Chevy about a year ago and it took only about 15 minutes. Oh, and my driveshaft is more level now than it was before the drop.

 

picture?

 

I'll try to get some up tonight. It has been raining here like crazy so I don't know if I can get a good pic up today. Should post some tonight or tomorrow so check back.

 

It'll have to be tomorrow, my cam won't take a pic because its too dark.

 

Ok, heres a few pics. It's been rainy so my truck is dirty, and its on an incline so it doesn't look as level as it normally does.
http://members.aol.com/budfrg69/drop1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/budfrg69/drop2.jpg
http://members.aol.com/budfrg69/drop3.jpg
http://members.aol.com/budfrg69/drop4.jpg