originally posted by Spazz:

if you take a stock VX and drop the axle 1.5 inches...then your clearance will drop to almost 7 inches instead of the 8.8
This is not correct. When you add the drop brackets (thereby moving your axle away from the body) you are "lifting" everything but your axle. Your clearance doesn't drop, the only way to lose clearance under your axle is to put on smaller tires.


originally posted by Spazz:

the drop down brackets do not raise the front...cranking the t bars raises the front.
This is half correct. They both raise the "front". The drop brackets raise the body away from the axle, and therefore away from the ground. Cranking the bars turns the short independent front axles down, "lifting" the front diff and front end.

One other thing, I don't think you can get 4" of lift by cranking the bars alone. I think 2" or 2.5" is about it. I figure I have about 3.5" of "lift" in the front, 2" from the bars, and 1.5" from larger tires.

I don't want to argue with anyone, this is the information that I believe to be true. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Brian