I have been flipping back and forth on the whole altitude thing for awhile now, and I know of guys say slam and lower it, but I just can't see the big rattling diesel dually in the weeds. If it were going to be a big block truck, I'd be more open to it, but low and diesel just doesen't seem right to me. That leaves me with the dilemma about what to do about the rake. I went back and looked through a bunch of my saved dually pics 68gmcdually's extended cab dually and the blue Longhorn dually really stuck out because they have an all business look to them. Both of these trucks sit almost level, and IMO they look good that way.
I got the ol dually out today and hauled off a bunch of boxes and junk from my storage building (ya know, cause Santa has to put the toys together in there to keep from waking the kids!
). When I got through, I threw the trusty ol floor jack under it to get some ideas. I bought a full set of 6 almost brand new tires that are a good bit wide and taller that what I was running, so I put those on and and jacked up the front to make it sit level. From the current height I'm going to have to come up about 3" higher in the front to make it level. I like the look of it that way. I'm thinking about buying a new set of 80's Diesel C-30 front springs since they seem to be about the heaviest ones made that will easily fit under my truck. I wonder if it will be enough? I may have to run a spring spacer as well. I am definitely going to be spacing the front wheels out a couple of inches also.
Not much of an update I know, but it was nice to get it out and drive it around a little.