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I have lowered a ton of LUV's and never had to play with driveline lengths. I will tell you that to clear the tunnel I have had to add 2 to 4 degree shims ( wedges ) on top of the blocks to get the nose of the driveline down to clear the tunnel. Any offroad shop should have the shims in stock.

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so if you lowerer the front and back 3" you dont have to modify the drive shaft correct?

you lower the front 3" and when you lower the rear you actually lift the rear axle and tuck it up into the bed. So the front will be going down and the rear will be going up which is going to throw off the angle

There again, buy caster chims to correct that

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why would it be going up in the rear if i lower both front and rear their both going down 3 " i don't see how it would go up. please someone verify this.

see how the axle is sitting on the leaf springs... lowering blocks go in between the axle and the leafs, pushing the axle up...

ahhh ok but do you really have to cut the driveshaft down or can you run it like that? also if so will it mess the trans. up? if you do have to cut it how much money are you lookin at to do the whole procedure(cutting the drive shaft and refitting it). thanks

you don't need to cut it, just make sure it's at the right angle. Read the posts by Luvrv8, his shim method should work just fine.

I'm guessing the reason why other people said that it was too tight after they lowered it was probably because of the bad angle, fix the angle and you'll be golden, just like a shower.

mine is 3 in the rear and 2.75 in the front and the shaft is fine any more and you may have to do the shim thing but at 2.75 in the front i didn't and its not rubbing or anything and drives great

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Thanks Kicker...

That is what I've been meaning to say, the angle is what changes and then your driveshaft doesn't want to bolt up like usual. No big deal, but as long as you fix the angle (since it is pointing upward toward the bed) the driveshaft will bolt up straight and you'll gain that factory play. That is all I want to accomplish, just to gain the factory play for the driveshaft so that I don't have that same issue with not being able to get my transmission free from the engine. For my dad and I that was one hectic job, to remove my non-working transmission about a year ago. Thanks for all the replies from everybody because now I have a better idea what to do to fix the bad angle. Appreciate it.

This is how my torsion bolt looks right now, seated all the way up. If I loosen the bolts so there is less threads at the top, does it raise or lower the body? Thx,

Emo

It should lower the truck if you loosen the bolt.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

So basically I am screwed if I wanted to raise the front end an inch?

you could try going the opposite way to see if there is any play in it...

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