Woke up yesterday morning and looked outside in the yard. Noticed that the truck was sitting fairly low on the left side and thought that maybe the snow was just melting from underneath it, boy was I wrong,lol.

Walked outside in the afternoon to head off to work and said there is no way that is from the snow, lets have a look here. And here is what I found...

 

Nice! You were going for that lowered look, right?

 

Thats the 2nd time I've seen that happen on a 2nd gen.
On my 1st gens the rear hangers disappear, but the shackles are fine. Weird.

 

lol Yea figure I would lower the truck without costing me any money

New shackles are only $24 so that isn't too bad I thought

 

Ive seen the hangers disappear on Fords before but i havnt heard of it on dodges...

One of the fords i saw almost had a hole worn in the bottom of the bed where the springs had been riding there so long... lol

 

Yea I know of some fords where the hanger would break, rust away as well. My Hangers seem to be ok so I'm just going to replace the shackles

 

well for that price your better off changing them both just so you don't have to worry about the other side in the near future.

 

thats nuts!

lucky you! lol j/k

 

I'm working on the leaf springs in this days...for bushings replacement...and I have notice that my shackle are very rusty, the paint peel off almost all..
I have a 1999 2500 in overall very great condition, no rust on the frame or on the axles I think these shackle are a very bad quality part!

Are there any aftermarket shackle? to fit a stock ride..

 

Gotta love that Ontario salt!!! I can always spot an easterner comming a mile away

 

The more popular approach around here seems to be that potassium chloride stuff they spray on the roads....that stuff is potent and they have dumped a ton of that stuff on our roads this year. What do they use out west that isn't so corrosive?

 

It would be a whole lot easier to lower your truck if you would just fill the bed with concrete instead of rubbing on the shackles a little bit each day with a file. Someone on here did this.

 

Gravel chunks. Hard on windshields but I guess ou shackles don't fall off

 

Oh boy...lets not get that going again....

 

MY 98 did this too. I went to West Virginia for deer season. Drove all the way there and went straight to the motel and parked the truck. I rode with my father inlaw for the next three days as my truck is to "big and loud" for going up the mountain trails. The day we went to leave, I literally backed out of the parking spot and boom the shackle broke. Of course this is the day before thanksgiving. Good luck getting it fixed right, I bought log chain and grade 8 bolts jacked the truck up to get spring in place, bolted the log chain and high-tailed it home. BTW my schakle from dodge with bolts was 75 bucks.