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What is it with people like you? Just because you think that a 4wd is only for being lifted doesn't mean it is what other people we need to do. You sure as hell don't see people lifting 4wd cars do you?
Let me guess. You also think that lowering a truck makes it useless?
lowering or lifting a truck makes it less useful as a truck. (except lowered 2wd - street truck)
most trucks are bought as lifestyle vehicles, and no one is going to know you are an urban badass unless your truck is 10" up on 35" muds. completely disregarding built *** trucks that can use the mods. a lifted truck makes the bed difficult to use (for actual work purposes).
unless one lives in a snowy climate, a lowered 4x4 defeats the purpose, as you might need it to get around. otherwise, why not get 2wd for the mpg, reduced weight and speed?
not gonna hate on the style itself, in fact, some lowered trucks (not slammed with tires tucked into fenders) look good to me.
My long-term goal for the truck is to slap a turbo on it and have an all-wheel-drive badass truck . Right now this is a work truck and yes the bed is fully loaded along with the backseat.
I also pulled a 30 foot camper with it for work . I really don't even want the DirecTV stickers on it but people keep calling the cops on me when I am sitting at someone's house waiting on them to come home so I can do an install . I plan to pull the block out next week but would like to lower it the more I'm just not sure about getting aligned with that much drop in the front end and I put a ton of miles on it .
you actually do install directv??
I think it'd look better level - lower or higher, have it level. a fat rake drives me nuts.
block in the front? if you have blocks in the rear, the rear axle doesn't need alignment. the truck is balanced on the axle.
they do have AWD f-150s (Harleys) but I don't know how well the 4wd works on solid pavement.
your excursion is bad *** (I hope it's 4wd!!! LOL ;-) )
I just live an average neighborhood we actually had somebody break into two of my other cars and walk right past my truck I caught them on camera . Unfortunately I have to have the stupid stickers per DirecTV and the fact that when I didn't have them I would be sitting at the house waiting on a customer to come home and the cops would show up the neighbors would always think I was breaking in . I have decided just to remove the 1 inch block in the rear . After a 16 Hour Drive completely overloaded pulling a 30 foot camper I think any lower would cause too many problems . There's been a couple times I have drug the crossmember on dries . What also ordered a nice ride right slammed airbag set up compressor and tank .
That's a cool long term plan for the truck. I would love to know how it works out. That said, I've never see the point in lowering a 4wd truck. It's not an easy or cheap endeavor. Certainly not one I would attempt. I do however like lowered trucks. Bagged, body dropped frame dragging trucks are bad *** to me. And while that extreme of lowering does take away from its ability to be a truck, a static dropped truck, or even a properly bagged one, can still haul it's intended payload, or pull its weight. It in no way keeps it from being a truck. Unless a truck to you is for going off road, which takes us back to square one.
Good call. As for safety pins comments, well they are just his opinions and not real good ones at that. That is my opinion. I think I have a right to give mine as I actually have a lowered 4x4. I live 20 miles from town out in the country on the Missouri River bottom. What that means is crazy wind and snow which equals lots of drifts. My truck sits at about a 4/5 drop with tow bags. It's omly been stuck once and that was this last winter when I had a 22' trailer on and got it high centered on a large frozen drift. I could have yanked it off had my tries not been on ice. I pulled the UPS man out of my driveway on Christmas Eve a couple months ago during heavy snow. There not as worthless as people think. My old lifted 08 with mud terrains was stuck many more times than my current truck.
lowering or lifting a truck makes it less useful as a truck. (except lowered 2wd - street truck)
most trucks are bought as lifestyle vehicles, and no one is going to know you are an urban badass unless your truck is 10" up on 35" muds. completely disregarding built *** trucks that can use the mods. a lifted truck makes the bed difficult to use (for actual work purposes).
unless one lives in a snowy climate, a lowered 4x4 defeats the purpose, as you might need it to get around. otherwise, why not get 2wd for the mpg, reduced weight and speed?
not gonna hate on the style itself, in fact, some lowered trucks (not slammed with tires tucked into fenders) look good to me.
How does lowering a truck make it less useful? Please help me understand that statement.
Mine still does everything a stock truck can do. Obviously I am not going to take it offroad especially with these wheels on it. It still tows/hauls and everything inbetween. I have a fireplace in my home so I haul wood often.
Mine still does everything a stock truck can do. Obviously I am not going to take it offroad especially with these wheels on it. It still tows/hauls and everything inbetween. I have a fireplace in my home so I haul wood often.
you use your truck as more of a truck than I do. Nothing goes in the bed of my truck that will get it dirty. My truck has also never seen a mudhole. And no I don't live in the city. I just choose to keep my truck clean. I got a 4wd to make launching my boat a non issue. But I'm sure it gets pampered more than most cars. It's not less useful for MY needs, but I'm not climbing in the back getting tools out. For every person who wonders why we lift/lower our trucks, I'm just as concerned with.... Why do they care?
