lowering or slamming rigs?

I would think it would be the same as street rods. A combination of air bag suspension and or channeling.

This is looks to be just air bags.



and I would bet this has bags and is channeled.

 

I need someone to stand beside the top pic. I can't tell it's any lower than my 379 from factory. It's just the look with fenders and bumper

 

I agree top pick has nothing in it to scale by. probably LP22.5's. Bottom pick looks like it hasn't worked in a few decades so I don't even care.

 

And it all works great, as long as it is setting still on a flat solid surface. When you gotta have a pit to get under the rear diffs, or remove a 1/2 set of fenders to change out a tire, too me, the practicality of it kinda goes away. I wonder how they'd go in about a foot of snow? Too each their own though, variety, they say, is the spice of life.

 

The top truck, Project 350 runs almost every day, he did run an airbag system on the truck, not sure if it still does or not. A lot of them also put a car hauler front axle on it to lower the front.

 

Guys I'm all about looking cool, until it gets in the way. I also heard low riders are for guys that can't get it to rise lol.

 

LMAO, I'll stay out of that particular discussion. I can see another benefit of being close to ground, when you're making that swing at the truck stop in a pouring down rain, and find that bottomless mudhole. You want have to drop as much, too wipe out a bumper, stepbox and fuel tank.

 

That's a problem with our car haulers. We run an over lift system. Basically a second set of suspension leveling valves set to max out the air bags. Flip a switch and raise about 5". Doesn't help on the bumper since we have leaf springs up there, car haulers and big bumpers just don't mix.

The down side to an over lift is that many drivers forget to turn them off, which beats up U-joints.

"I have a bid vibration."
"OK, is your over lift up?"
"Oh crap, never mind."

 

Them big steppers, with the desperate need for that big bumper, rig them up on a pivot, with air cylinders to kick it up going in and out of driveways. I guess it just depends on how much you're willing to spend to look cool, and the popularity of H-D among drivers kind of answers that question, huh?