Ok here the deal. I know this had likely been covered and folks are gonna say that this is why you dont cheaply lower your stuff.

But anyways... I lowered my ecsb silverado a while back. The rear is lowered with drop shackles and everthing was good, then I removed the second leaf. Not the overload. Yeah its slammed and i still didnt have trouble untill i added some power. I put a 6.0 in it and have raced it some. If I spin bad enough i get wicked wheel hop when the tires are trying to grab. like GONNA BREAK SOME SH*T hop. I added Nitro Drop shocks but it didnt help. The leafs are really soft and i feel this is my issue. The rear just isnt stiff enough. Can I take the leaf I removed flip it over and install it on top of the leaf pack? I know it will stiffen it but it may also completely flatten the leaf and rendewr it useless. Its pretty useless now but that will flatten it worse. Just sittin level with nothing in the bed the axle is roughly 1-2" off the frame so when you hit a bump it smacks it pretty good.(which was planning to fix with a notch.) But im considering putting the leaf back in the rear and trying to get the drop some other way so i get some stiffness back there.

Also me and my buddy have thrown the idea around of fabbing and installing some coil-overs on the rearend. Leave the leafs (install solid bushings in leaf ends) and install these in place of the shock. We already have them and NO I dont need something this extreme right now but...why not.


Ideas.

 

To much axle roll if I had to guess

 

Before you do all that, get 4 spring clamps, and clamp down the main leaf to the overload leaf. See how that works.

 

ok ill try that. Its probably close to touching it already. My springs are almost flat.

 

flat springs are the issue
NO coilovers and leafs unless you need the capacity, who knows what the spring rate will be
solid bushings are a bad idea too, more vibration, possible broken leafs, they need to twist and flex,solid would fight that

you should arch the leafs and run it spring under, then the extra arch in the leafs will fight the axlewrap

factory leafs suck, they are too stiff for daily driving and not many people actually realize this

wait for all the caltrac people to tell you what to get

 

the 2nd spring as in the LONGEST of the 3 springs? thats a big no no....you take the over load spring out (the shortest one) and thats it. your axle warp is worse bc theres nothing there to keep the rear end firm.
put it all back in and clamp the over load to the leaf pack. my truck NEVER wheel hops not even on DRs with a 1.76 60'

dont half *** your drop kit or your going to end up breaking something and ruin your truck. just my .02 take it how ya want.

 

Yeah looks like ima try to put the leafs back in and clamp then like you said. Im sure ill have less drop and it will look like ***** but least it wont break anything until i can drop it properly.

 

its not the longest of the 3 though. Theres the main leaf which is where it bolts in, then i took the one under that one out. then theres the overload still there.

 

Also dont forget that once you lower it past a certain point you need to readjust your pinion angle or it will cause issues as well.

 

installed some traction bars and completely fixed my hop issue. and It dead hooks on street tires at the track...(if i leave at 1k rpm) hehe