Lowering advice

@Fosscore @KidWgn

I would probably start with shock extenders 2" and go from there.

tahoeltz2011 said:

@CMoore711 jajaja with a little shame i will tell you to cut the oem springs.
Everything was fine until I changed the shock absorbers and compressor.

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From what I gather you lowered your vehicle by just cutting the OEM springs…

Was that for both the front and the rear?
Did you take any ground the fender lip measurements or have any point of reference to determine how much you lowered the front and rear after you cut the springs?

Without some of this information and detail it’s kinda hard to make recommendations. But I will try…

Based on what you’ve shared you replaced the rear shocks and compressor and it seems to have raised your vehicle back up and you’re wanting to get it back down to the lowered ride height BEFORE you replaced the rear shocks and compressor.

It may not take too much to get back there. I would suggest doing two things to the rear:

1. Install some rear lower shock extenders (as others have suggested). I would suggest the ones from DJM.


2. Shorten your rear ride height sensor rods.

This can be done a couple ways.

You can buy shorter ones like these:

Or you can purchase some 10-24 stainless steel machine screws and cut the heads of the screw off so you’re left with a fully threaded piece of 10-24 rod. And adjust from there. This is a cheaper route and more readily found at your local hardware store. You can get a pack of (6) screws and play with various lengths to dial it in.

I would start with an overall rod length of 3” from end to end including the round plastic end rod caps that attach to the sensor and upper control arm. It is estimated that for every 1/8" change in sensor rod length changes the ride height by 3/4".

Based on what you’ve shared I think starting with these two steps would be the quick simple and low cost way to get your rear ride height lowered back down to before you replaced the rear shocks and compressor.

Hey, I was one of the guys having issues with getting the front spindles to drop 2”. I actually only got 3/4 of an inch, and that was with trying two separate sets of belltech drop spindles. I have all the measurements and pictures, and even tried belltechs drop struts up front as well set to full drop and think I only got 3/4 or 1” out of that too. I can not wrap my brain around how that’s even possible, but the only single thing I did not try for fear of making my car undriveable (one of the daily’s so I couldn’t afford to let it sit until it got realigned) was loosening the control arm responsible for alignment. I can’t remember which one, but I loosened the opposing ones on both sides with no change in height. The ONLY thing I can think, is maybe preload on the control arm wouldn’t let the suspension travel outside of “its range of motion” I’ll call it. I found this post while searching for answers from a few years ago, because I still want my damn Yukon lowered.

By chance have you changed your front struts? I’m asking bc I put passive strut/spring combo on my already lowered rig and it raised the front about 1 1/2 inches. It may have nothing to do with your rig but thought I’d toss it out there. I ended up going back to stock style and it dropped back down. Good luck.