FYI, I was able to remove the lift and bring the truck back down to stock height. It did require new front leaf springs, and the driveshafts did need to be shortened. The steering arm was the stock one so that didn't have to be replaced, thank god. Of course I needed new shocks and u-bolts all around, and smaller tires.
Full write-up about this job is in
my build thread, page 11.
Before:
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The new leaf springs, shocks, u-bolts:
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A word (or two) about shortening the driveshafts:
In order to drop this truck 4 inches, the driveshafts need to be shortened a little. I drove 40 miles to a place in Kansas City that could do the work. Before making the drive though, I did a little algebra. Remember that **** in 9th grade math class? a squared plus b squared equals c squared. Of course this only works for a right triangle. But from that calculation, my front driveshaft needed to be shorted 2 inches and my rear driveshaft 1 inch.
Ok back to the KC truck shop, I told the manager there these calculations and he wasn't having any of it. The only way to do this once (and not have to come back and have them shortened again because it wasn't enough the first time) was to do the drop then take a real measurement from u-joint to u-joint. (Spoiler alert: he was right, I was wrong.) So the plan we came up with was to leave him with my rear driveshaft and to drive back home in front wheel drive only, then drop the rear and call him with the measurement. So that's what I did and I'm glad I did because the measurement was no where near what I had calculated it would be. It wasn't a right triangle.
Hope this info come in handy for anyone stumbling upon this thread.
