Re: Lowering Blocks

From: John Doe (hitman@enteract.com)
Date: Tue Oct 13 1998 - 19:21:48 EDT


I bought 3" drop blocks from PEP BOYS. im not sure what there made of (they
were cheep) but i've have them on my 96 V6 dakota for 6 months with hard city
and highway driving. Also the 205/55/r15 smaller wheels don't help either.
rides rough, handles like a dream.

jim miller wrote:

> > Went to Poop boys today to get some 2" lowering blocks to level out my
> > rearend. All they had were Aluminum , I wanted steel but I bought them
> > anyway. Well before I opened them I thought that the u-bolts looked to
> > narrow, so I measured, the one's in the kit are 3" and my rearend is
> > about 3.75". Had to return them, they didn't have any u bolts that were
> > long and wide enough for me. Anyone else had this problem? How did you
> > solve it?
> >
> > Erich 98 ext. cab v8 5spd.
>
> I bought a set of blocks for my 98 and had to have a pickup outfitter order
> some for me because most all the lowering kits are for small axels (mostly
> for rice burners I guess). Anyway the ones I got were steel also. I hear
> the aluminum blocks can crack especially on V8 Daks. I don't remember what
> brand they were though.



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