drop shackles with spring over

[jenno]

Was just wondering if anyone has drop shackles on a daily drive and if so how do they do handle and any rattles assosiated with them, hopefully going onto a spring over converted 79 series ute.
Help and advice much appreciated cheers

[stock 4runner]

I ran mine for two years but have found my car more versatile with out them. But they gave me great flex. But sucked on side leans.

[SierraDan]

Good on a ramp. Crap on a side slope. Will need a wrap bar.

[mnemonix]

Drove my LWB sierra SPOA with drop shackles for 2 years.
Looked good posing for photos. Drove like a piece of shit.
Went back to stock shackles, then back to SPUA configuration and these 2 steps made the biggest improvements to driveability offroad than any other mod I've done.

[jenno]

Ok thanks for the advice was wat i was after.
So the go is the factory style shackle either extended or not is the go?

[SierraDan]

Extended shackles are good for nothing other than lift and ruining castor unless you change the mounts/add longer springs.

[jenno]

Yeah got the castor covered in the front with set of dropped snake arms and got extended EFS leafs in the back just going to put it all ontop of the diff and flatten out the leafs to around the 6inch lift height then put a set of coils and shocks in the front to match

[SierraDan]

Ah 79 series yep.

Just do a SPOA take a leaf or few out, it'll flex pretty well.

[jenno]

So does anyone know if it is impossible to get spring over engineered. Well origially was looking at coil rear but worked out to be too expensive for me

[jenno]

Just spoke to a few engineers and it seems they will only certify a cruiser ute to a max of 75mm or 3" which is only the diff thickness and 33's are max tire size they will engineer. So spring over 79 series ute with dead flat leafs and 6" coils in front with 33's is able to be certified

[SierraDan]

It wouldn't be great for carrying much weight with dead flat leaves..

[jenno]

Yeah, having to make a conproise with load carrying vs working well in the bush. Not really carrying anything on it now anyway. Wanted to do a full airbag converion to the rear similar to the DNA off road 75 series but the dollars are going to be too hard to come by. So settling for the spring over and was thinking of rigging something up later on if the ute purpose changed to fit airbag helpers in there and just put chains from chassis to diff to stop it tearing the bag appart.
Hard part at the moment is trying to find an engineer that will certify the spring over with 6" lift and 35's