lol nuthin' like tough love

 

McGaughys and DJM make kits to lower 4x4 rams. I still dont get why people are so agianst lowering a 4x4 vehicle. If you dont offroad and purchased 4whl drive to get thru snow or to pull your boat off a slick ramp whats the big deal with lowering a 4x4 for better street handling ? Anyway to each there own and Im sure this will continue to be a debate until the end of time. Its your ride -your paying the bill-do wtf you want to it if it makes you happy.

 

YEAH!!! Not everyone lives in the hills...

 

I dont think its so much that people are ranting on lowering a 4x4, I think its more why would you buy one in the first place if all you were going to do is lower it.

I like AWD vehicles. I would like to see it on more vehicles. I just dont see how lowering a 4x4 is really going to help its handling. Its already a 4x4, and its usually sitting a lil more aggressively then some vehicles.

 

If you lower a vehicle properly and not change the stock geometry it can only improve handling. The lower center of gravity will always make cornering -sway-and aerodynamics improve if "streetability" is what your looking for. Obviously giving your 1500 a 2x4 drop will not allow it to hang thru the cones with a Acura NSX but it will do better then a stock height 1500. If your idea of handling is washboard firetrials and bouncing down sand dunes then no your handling wouldnt improve.

 

Ground force makes a 2/4 drop for the 4x4 dodge ram 1500. Summit sells it for around 550.

 

i dont live in the hills, and i would jack a 4x4 as high as i could get that baby in the air but i just dont understand if u wanna level it out, just turn the torsion bars underneath or get a spacer kit and stick in the front springs, much easier then goin through the hassle of lowering a 4x4, plus u can only lower it so far before having to worrying about drive angles, and so on. but it's your truck, just throwin in my 2 cents worth

 

cant you switch a daytona from 2x4 from 4x4 ? just asking

 

I am so sick and tired of people knocking others that want to lower their 4x4, first of all not all people get a 4x4 to go offroad, or to be tall, or have an extention of thier *****.

Like me I am lowering my 4x4 due to the fact that I like lowered trucks, they look sleek and stealthy, however due to the fact that I don't live in florida or hawaii, and I live in NWOhio I need the added traction of the 4x4 system. I am doing it for 2 reasons, to improve the look of the truck, to add traction, and to be different, Ok 3 reasons

The statement of saying"why would anyone lower a 4x4, they are just moron's" is like saying why in world would you lift a 4x2? "that's pointless"

to each their own. Stop hatin' and appreciate the beauty.

 

ummm.... isn't the rear suspension on the 2x4 and the 4x4 the same? If so a set of drop shakles will reduce your rake for about $60 plus install... if you want to drop your front an inch or two loosening your torsion bars should do that for you... all in all you can drop her about 2 inches for $150 in parts and labor...

as to whether I would do it?... frankly no... I drive a leveled 2X4 on 22's and really want a slightly lifted 4x4 to sit next to it in the driveway, but then i do not live in MI anymore and 4x4 is a luxary as opposd to a neccesity down here, and I am going to buy a CTS-V or camaro z-28 or GTO to take up the space currently filled by my lincoln once I get the Ram paid off.