No, there's not really any difference, except that the 1st-gens have a definite droop snubber, whereas the 2nd-gens don't really have much stopping the downtravel. If you crawl under there on a 2nd-gen, there's a good chance you won't find a droop snubber if you don't know what you're looking for. It's this pathetic piece of metal the size of a crappy 1/16th angle-iron bracket. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> This doesn't really limit much of anything, if there were no other factors involved, the a-arm would slam into it and bend it right out of the way. The droop is kinda limited by a combination of that, shock length, and suspension travel bind. You'd be decreasing the suspension bind with the drop diff, so there's the possibility of overextending.

You're right, tho, rethinking that, it won't affect travel of the steering, but it WILL be more likely to have steering trouble due to the design of the droop... Sorry, it was late when I posted, that's what you get for browsing the internet at 3:30am, especially in the midst of some major jet lag. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> But I'd still like to see it tested out before I jumped on the bandwagon on this one. Joe Darlington had mentioned he was going to do a drop diff bracket and run it on his 02 for awhile to see what the downfalls were... I guess when he gets done playing soldier. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

-Chris