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    Whatever you do, DO NOT cut your springs anymore than half a coil. Cutting your springs in half for lots of drop not only is hack, but it will throw your alignment out to next to impossible causing an insane amount of wear and tear. GM spent millions engineering your truck, as did the aftermarket companies for there products. DON'T HACK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sleeper1500 View Post
    Whatever you do, DO NOT cut your springs anymore than half a coil. Cutting your springs in half for lots of drop not only is hack, but it will throw your alignment out to next to impossible causing an insane amount of wear and tear. GM spent millions engineering your truck, as did the aftermarket companies for there products. DON'T HACK.
    absolutely bull!!!!!!!!!


    my truck since the first day i lowerd it has been souly on cut springs. my first set of springs were V6 springs cut 1.25 coils. that gave me a 3" drop. i never had alignment problems never had uneven wear or anything. my truck rode better then any sping drop ive been in. i run IAS shocks. the truck would also handle the corners very well and transfer as it needed to for launching. I ran those for 4 years.
    its not called hack. its funny you buy some springs and they actually tell you to cut the springs to get desired ride height.

    im on my second set of v6 cut springs. this time i only cut 3/4 of coil off since i wanted a higher stance. [i changed out my springs cause of weight of turbo kit made my truck lower then i wanted]

    so dont preach stuff that isnt true, truely hate internet readers with no real world experience











    also as for camber i run -1 for handling and it doesnt create unusual wear either.
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    I've got the DJM 4-6 with control arms and I dig it, I haven't seen or felt any problems yet (knock on wood). then again, I've only had the truck for 2 months now, but the original owner said he never had any trouble with it. Truck has the doetsche tech shocks and rides like a dream.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quik View Post
    absolutely bulls**t!!!!!!!!!


    my truck since the first day i lowerd it has been souly on cut springs. my first set of springs were V6 springs cut 1.25 coils. that gave me a 3" drop. i never had alignment problems never had uneven wear or anything. my truck rode better then any sping drop ive been in. i run IAS shocks. the truck would also handle the corners very well and transfer as it needed to for launching. I ran those for 4 years.
    its not called hack. its funny you buy some springs and they actually tell you to cut the springs to get desired ride height.

    im on my second set of v6 cut springs. this time i only cut 3/4 of coil off since i wanted a higher stance. [i changed out my springs cause of weight of turbo kit made my truck lower then i wanted]

    so dont preach s**t that isnt true, truely hate internet readers with no real world experience











    also as for camber i run -1 for handling and it doesnt create unusual wear either.
    whew, I smell a couple of infractions there.....
    2005 black Yukon XL SLT - traded in for me wife's new Fusion (GM sucks these days)
    2002 black Yukon SLT (the skinny sister)
    1969 green Pontiac GTO (Layla, AKA the black sheep)

    INSTALLS AND MORE.. http://www.ls1truck.com/forums/my-ga...-low-life.html
    Sticky/broken gauges? I can help. PM me for details.

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