Ford - Unhitched vs Hitched Fender Height

Ron Gratz wrote:

ScottG wrote:
Don't be surprised if you can't get enough weight transferred forward to lower the front of the truck very much - let alone dropping it as much as the back. And if you manage to do so, it may handle strangely - feeling like it's pivoting in the middle. If the front is stiff enough you may be transferring weight but not pushing the springs down much.
The engineers are often wrong on this one.

I think Ford and others are using front-end height only as an indicator of axle load. They probably assume many more people will attempt to measure height changes than will go to a scales and measure load changes.
Unfortunately, it's the load changes which are the important parameter.

And, nobody should attempt to drop the front as much as the rear -- inspite of what some WDH sales people might tell you.

I'm not sure what you mean by the engineers often being wrong on this one -- but I'm going to disagree with your statement anyway.

Ron

And I agree with Ron. I think many people go wrong trying to either get the same amount of drop front to rear, or to just use the WD to make the truck ride level, and neither is the purpose of WD. I think the general opinion now is the get the front right and let the rear take care of itself.