Drop truck=poor ride

[Steve Van Gent]

So I did the poor mans drop on my truck. I origionally cut one coil off front, put 3 inch drop springs on rear, truck was a little rough ride. When to 5 inch drop on back, new hard-pan bar, and another half coil off front. Here are results;
1. Front rims now rub on top A-arm when I turn truck
2. rear now bottoms out on rubber stop on regular basis
3. Ride is terrible. I drove from Redding to San Francisco 250 miles, felt like I rode a horse whole way.

I should qualify this by saying that when it was at origional height, it did not ride great-I expected that with A-arm front and swing with coils in rear, it should have been a good ride. It was NOT good.

BTW, my 305 and 700R4 gave me new improved MPG of 13.5MPG! great improvement-I got 15 with origional 4 speed and 350!!!