cmac2012
Junior Member
This will likely be an unusual story. My mother recently married an Oregon rancher. She's 85, he 94. He still works every day feeding cattle or overseeing logging road work on his spread. Mostly alert and bright but he did do one, uhhh ... questionable thing that I'd like to help remedy.
His truck was a semi large Ford and my mom mentioned that if it had running boards, she could get in more easily. He went into town the next day and bought a Ram 2500 Heavy Duty with a 6.4 Hemi. It had running boards and a winch at the front and is a tough looking beast. Unfortunately it's so high that it's difficult to enter, running boards notwithstanding. Also vexing is that it's about an inch too high for the garage door as it currently hangs. I measured it - up to the lowest point of the garage door was real close to 80, might have been 84", I regret to admit I didn't write that down somewhere.
Was major frost on all glass every morning and he takes off early to feed livestock. Would really like to see him enjoy the two car garage.
My two trucks are a Chev G20 and Grumman step van on a GMC diesel platform. I am Dodge ignorant since my '60s era van and Omni years ago. I couldn't tell you if this model comes only in 4x4 or if the ride is aftermarket high or what. My warehouse/shop welder neighbor, a Dodge truck owner, says he thinks the winch may be after market. It already has 1500 miles on the odo and he's had it two months for light use, my thought being that it might have been a nearly new returned rig.
This one is 4wd of course and is a formidable beast. He let me drive it several miles home over Thanksgiving and urged me to get on it. Oh yeah.
Hopefully these pics will post OK, looks to me like this could be lowered 3 or 4 inches and still be a semi off road truck, and he's going to be on slightly rough roads and not much worse.
My question, anyone know if this can be easily accomplished with off the shelf parts? Hard for me to imagine that there aren't lower stock ride heights. Or body heights at any rate. I can only imagine that it would need to be a dealer done thing to maintain any warranty.
His truck was a semi large Ford and my mom mentioned that if it had running boards, she could get in more easily. He went into town the next day and bought a Ram 2500 Heavy Duty with a 6.4 Hemi. It had running boards and a winch at the front and is a tough looking beast. Unfortunately it's so high that it's difficult to enter, running boards notwithstanding. Also vexing is that it's about an inch too high for the garage door as it currently hangs. I measured it - up to the lowest point of the garage door was real close to 80, might have been 84", I regret to admit I didn't write that down somewhere.
Was major frost on all glass every morning and he takes off early to feed livestock. Would really like to see him enjoy the two car garage.
My two trucks are a Chev G20 and Grumman step van on a GMC diesel platform. I am Dodge ignorant since my '60s era van and Omni years ago. I couldn't tell you if this model comes only in 4x4 or if the ride is aftermarket high or what. My warehouse/shop welder neighbor, a Dodge truck owner, says he thinks the winch may be after market. It already has 1500 miles on the odo and he's had it two months for light use, my thought being that it might have been a nearly new returned rig.
This one is 4wd of course and is a formidable beast. He let me drive it several miles home over Thanksgiving and urged me to get on it. Oh yeah.
Hopefully these pics will post OK, looks to me like this could be lowered 3 or 4 inches and still be a semi off road truck, and he's going to be on slightly rough roads and not much worse.
My question, anyone know if this can be easily accomplished with off the shelf parts? Hard for me to imagine that there aren't lower stock ride heights. Or body heights at any rate. I can only imagine that it would need to be a dealer done thing to maintain any warranty.
