Heavy Thinkers: leaf spring suspension

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Ok here we go. In this argument I want to settle an debate I'm having with another person. I have a stock suspension lightning. I want to lower the rear of thr truck to help with 60 ft. He tells me it's going to Hirt my 60 ft even worse.by taking away the squat motion. Which I agree but I feel that if I lower the rear moving the center of gravity farther back on the truck. I will have a little more weight over the rear. With a little less spring squat I think less momentum will be wasted forcing thr truck forward.

Am I wrong for thinking this way?
 

Jokerzl

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I did a test with my ram a couple of years ago. I live down the street from a scale like half a block . So I can test weigh savings for almost everything and gas won't be a factor. Ok

I took my stock shackles off my ram and dropped the rear end 3-4 inches. After this I weighed the truck in the rear again and was able to shift 60-80 lbs over the rear tires.
 
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