Ride handling of TC's vs Class C's or B plus
I have had a class A for the last 16 years and am considering going to a TC. My wife never liked driving on mountainous roads out west with the Class A and after 2 front end failures one at 60 mph she...
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And now a word from someone who actually does this stuff..
Bell-Tech and Western Chassis are the two companies that make the good truck-drop parts.
They make dropped spindles for the front that don’t affect the ride or function at all, all the nice custom trucks use them.
For the rear they make custom shackle kits that also don’t affect the ride or function. In fact that’s how Chevy used to do the rear, the 4WD and 2WD had the same rear suspension, on different shackle hangers to make the ride height match the front.
If you want a lot of drop, they make C-notch sections for the rear frame to clear the axle.
On the older trucks you can go about 4” down before you need to install the C-notch plate.
If you want to go cooler, I mean lower, you’ll also need to swap to lower front springs - or just airbag it. There’s kits for that too.
I lowered my old 2WD Chevy crew cab dually with the Western Suspension kit years ago.
It rode and drove great, looked cool, and it still carried my camper and towed my trailer.
You’re gonna have a lot more luck finding partsbto drop a 2WD Chevy than anything else.
I haven’t checked what’s out for the new ones but I’m sure there are parts.
Bell-Tech and Western Chassis are the two companies that make the good truck-drop parts.
They make dropped spindles for the front that don’t affect the ride or function at all, all the nice custom trucks use them.
For the rear they make custom shackle kits that also don’t affect the ride or function. In fact that’s how Chevy used to do the rear, the 4WD and 2WD had the same rear suspension, on different shackle hangers to make the ride height match the front.
If you want a lot of drop, they make C-notch sections for the rear frame to clear the axle.
On the older trucks you can go about 4” down before you need to install the C-notch plate.
If you want to go cooler, I mean lower, you’ll also need to swap to lower front springs - or just airbag it. There’s kits for that too.
I lowered my old 2WD Chevy crew cab dually with the Western Suspension kit years ago.
It rode and drove great, looked cool, and it still carried my camper and towed my trailer.
You’re gonna have a lot more luck finding partsbto drop a 2WD Chevy than anything else.
I haven’t checked what’s out for the new ones but I’m sure there are parts.
