Don't care too much for them sitting on the ground, but i believe it all depends on what direction your going with the truck. When my truck was a long bed I liked the higher look. Not exactly lifted i don't mind that look either but how the height was from the factory being a 3/4 ton. Now that it is a shortbed I'm going for a hot rod look and want it to sit lower. I love these trucks in all flavors short long high low they look great either way in my opinion.
D100 lowering the rear
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MILO
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A guy in town lowered his car and was cruising along and hit a rail on the RR tracks and it ripped the the front crossmember from the from his car
Cranky1
Banned Old Stinky Fart
Doesn't snow all too often in Dallas.....I lower my cars but to me a truck is a truck and don't lower them very often.
Cranky1
Banned Old Stinky Fart
How low was the car and how high were the rails? I've done some crazy stuff with my cars including getting lots of air but never ripped a cross member from one....
Ha ha!!!!!!
It all depends on the use for the truck, if your using as a daily driver and “actually” as a truck for hauling and towing then you might as well leave it stock, BUT, IF it’s work days are over and its main purpose is a “ fun toy “ then in my opinion there is just nothing cooler than a lowered short bed Dodge truck, both my eldest son and I own late model Ram trucks, their both the “ limited” models with factory air bags to raise or lower the suspension as needed and VERY practical , we haul RV,S boats, lumber etc, AND they are are daily drivers so for FUN we each own “ classic “ Dodge trucks, he has a 1980 s/b Utiline which he owned since high school ( he is mid thirty’s now ) it used to be his daily driver, but that part of the trucks life is over, now it’s lowered, has a 340, a833 , nice oak bed, leather buckets, etc, my 56, used to be a farm truck and it’s useful work life is over, I built it to have fun and cruise, it to is lowered, nice paint, a oak bed floor box that will NEVER haul anything but a few swap meet parts maybe IF there on a padded blanket, it’s suspension and power train are also upgraded etc, etc, I take it out cruising on nice days only in the spring, summer, and early fall. The rest of these trucks days are spent in a warm garage. THIS is why people lower trucks, you don’t have to like them or agree with why people do it but it’s called “ hot rodding” not all trucks are work trucks.
I don't know why but to me a"lowered" truck doesn't make for a "cool" truck.whether hot rod, work truck, daily driver, or a combo of those. But as long as it isn't obnoxious I don't mind a lifted one as much as a lowered one. To me 98% of trucks no matter how nicely done the body work is done, are ruined by lowering.
Having been an alignment guy for as long as I was maybe having them come in for alignment, and having to put a ton of blocks on the ground to drive them over to even get them onto the rack in the first place, and then not being able to get them anywhere near "lined up" has something to do with it?
Having been an alignment guy for as long as I was maybe having them come in for alignment, and having to put a ton of blocks on the ground to drive them over to even get them onto the rack in the first place, and then not being able to get them anywhere near "lined up" has something to do with it?
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