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Old 10-28-2010, 02:14 PM
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Oleg your truck is pure sex. I'm proud to rock your old front shocks. I'll be watching for it when I'm in Edmonton Novembrance Day weekend.
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Its coming close to 2 years that ive had it lowered now. Not too many miles but it is my daily driver. I use the 4wd all winter and at the track.
Can you switch your case from AWD to 4WD?
Old 10-29-2010, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by mjfleming90
black04, what are you running for inches of drop on the individual parts on the front? i'm looking at dropping my 04 4x4
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I am not sure what you mean by your question?

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Oleg your truck is pure sex. I'm proud to rock your old front shocks. I'll be watching for it when I'm in Edmonton Novembrance Day weekend.


Can you switch your case from AWD to 4WD?
Thanks. Yeah the case is easy to swap.
Old 11-01-2010, 10:16 PM
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sorry, i'll try and be more clear. just wondering what you are running for drop parts and the drop amounts of lca's, uca's, spindles, and keys
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Old 11-01-2010, 10:32 PM
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The spindles drop it 2". Keys and lower control arms depend on how much you crank it down. Upper control arms are just for alignment and arent really needed unless you cant get it into spec. My friend has spindles, keys and lower control arms with stock uppers and his aligned fine. His upper balljoint is pretty angled but no problems so far. Looks badass too.
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I could barely get mine to align after just installing Belltech drop keys...didn't get caster as positive as I wanted (it's at 4.0 and 3.9), and camber is at -.5 and -.6 respectively...and everything is maxed out. Pretty sure that that's part of the deal with keys though...not the best way to do it, but the most I could afford.
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Its been awhile since i looked at my alignment specs but from what i remember my caster is pretty far off and my camber is a little under -1. All of my tires look great tho.

My friends truck actually aligned better than mine iirc. His camber was pretty close to 0. Heres some pics of his. He is aaronmc on here



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His set up is drop keys, mcg spindles and djm lower control arms. In the rear its a flip kit with shackles set at 1". Tires are 245/55R20.
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And heres a pretty recent pic of mine. We're all about the lowered 4x4s here.



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thanks for this awesome thread and pictures! I'm lowered 2/4 right now and i'm planning on going another 2/2 with some lower control arms and hangers.
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