Looking for an easy way to drop 2" out of the front of a 97 F150 reg cab short bed truck. Thanks for any info !
Gator.

 

Eibach Springs http://www.eibach.com/ I had 'em on my 1998 F-150, and they worked great. I repositioned the leaf spring perches on the rear. Great ride and handling with Bilstein shocks.

 

Thanks !

 

Drop spindles are better than short coils - see Beltech.

 

If I were to lower I would go with spindles over coils too, but if your on a budget coils are WAY cheaper.

I waited for a long time for lowering coils to come out for our trucks, finally got tired of waiting so I lifted it, and two weeks later, BAM, Belltech releases their spindles. Only drop spindles made for these trucks.

 

Has any one torched the coiles and droped it that way ?

 

You CAN do that, but Id advise against it. The springs are wound and made a specific way for the wieght etc. Cutting the spring will change all that. Bad things could happen.

 

X2 dont cut stock coils. especially if you dont like the way it rides or handles then what you cant go back to stock...
-Patrick

 

I had a 67 mustang one time that I put a 351 w in and the new springs I put in it to handle it were too high for me so I heated up the second coiles till they sat down on the lower coiles and lowered it about 2" that way.
I was just wondering if a truck spring could do the same?
I never had trouble with the mustang.

 

Dropped spindles are an easy bolt on......
If you go with shorter coils, you need shorter shocks to match, and an alignment by someone who knows what they are doing.
Torching or cutting springs is cheezie...... you have no way of knowing how it will affect the temper of the spring.

 

NOT! I used the Eibach coils on my 98. The travel is shortened, but the bottoming point remains the same. Stock length shocks work fine. Alignment is a standard adjustment also, the stock cams have more than enough adjustment to correct for the 2" drop. I put over 70,000 miles on the Eibach dropped coils, with stock length Bilstein shocks, and no problems what so ever. Cut or shortened springs wont have the correct rise in rate over their travel, they would be harsh initially, and tend to bottom. The Eibachs are designed to give the correct rate over the reduced travel.

 

Stock length shocks should work fine with only a 2" drop. I changed all of mine out to "lowering" shocks (1) I needed to replace the factory shocks after 120K miles on them and (2) I also dropped the rear 4", so I definitely needed shocks designed for lowered vehicles.

I went with Western Chassis springs in the front.