Will 2 inch rear drop help traction?
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From: Canyon Lake Texas
Will 2 inch rear drop help traction?
My 97 F150 2WD extended cab has a brush guard (lotsa deer here in Texas), and has really poor rear traction. Its easy to lock the rear up braking on dry, even in town, and down right loose in the rain. Will lowering the rear 2 inches (looking at shackles) help this situation?
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I don't know if this is true or not but I just asked around that if you would lower it it would lower the center of gravity and in turn help with traction but my question is; how, you are not really adding any weight. I am interested to see what someone else says
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Technically, if you lower the rear of the truck, you alter the way the truck will sit. Therefore, in addition to the force going straight down on the rear wheels, you have an 'incline' rearward. When something sits on an incline, it exherts a force directly downward, but it also exherts a force down the incline, which makes it have a tendancy to slide down the incline.
just think, if taken to extremes, and say you had an incline 45 degrees rearward, everything you put in the bed would slide backwards. Now, if taken to a lesser extent, like a 2 inch drop, the same force going backwards would still be there, but it would be less, so the force of friction would overcome it.
In english, what I'm trying to say, is that it would put more weight over the rear wheels, but I really doubt a 2 inch drop would be very significant.
just think, if taken to extremes, and say you had an incline 45 degrees rearward, everything you put in the bed would slide backwards. Now, if taken to a lesser extent, like a 2 inch drop, the same force going backwards would still be there, but it would be less, so the force of friction would overcome it.
In english, what I'm trying to say, is that it would put more weight over the rear wheels, but I really doubt a 2 inch drop would be very significant.
