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Old 10-29-2014, 12:47 PM
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I already know that my truck isn't going to ride like a merc but for god sakes its rough.

Installed is a set of coil spacers on the stock coils their are 2.5" daystar spacers, 3" rough country spindles, and bilstein 5100's. I have ridden in a lot of lifted trucks and mine rides like crap. My tires are BFG MUD KM2s 33/12.5/16r They aren't choppy I take good care of them and set them to 30-35psi to smooth my ride a little as well

I had stock shocks until last month with the same suspension and it really didn't get much better with the bilsteins they do feel more firm and not as harsh as the stock setup shocks but do I have a coil in backwards or something?? I have been looking for a solution for months now! If anyone has an input let me know!
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Spacers don't help and you have very firm shocks on top of light truck tires which are probably 8-10ply. What do you expect?
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Originally Posted by Anthonymcd95
I already know that my truck isn't going to ride like a merc but for god sakes its rough.

Installed is a set of coil spacers on the stock coils their are 2.5" daystar spacers, 3" rough country spindles, and bilstein 5100's. I have ridden in a lot of lifted trucks and mine rides like crap. My tires are BFG MUD KM2s 33/12.5/16r They aren't choppy I take good care of them and set them to 30-35psi to smooth my ride a little as well

I had stock shocks until last month with the same suspension and it really didn't get much better with the bilsteins they do feel more firm and not as harsh as the stock setup shocks but do I have a coil in backwards or something?? I have been looking for a solution for months now! If anyone has an input let me know!
If it were me I would drop the puck size to 2". Are your shocks the correct length?
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Its the spacers and the amount of preload they put on the front suspension.
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Originally Posted by Carcrazygts2
Its the spacers and the amount of preload they put on the front suspension.
Yea I kinda figured, well I wanted to keep about that much lift on my truck it sits nice for me, but I guess Ill have to spend some more money and buy a 7.5" lift and keep my body lift Ill gain like 3" if I go that route but itll cost me 1600$
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Originally Posted by Anthonymcd95

Yea I kinda figured, well I wanted to keep about that much lift on my truck it sits nice for me, but I guess Ill have to spend some more money and buy a 7.5" lift and keep my body lift Ill gain like 3" if I go that route but itll cost me 1600$
You may be surprised how much better it will ride with only a small height reduction.
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Originally Posted by jprevat
You may be surprised how much better it will ride with only a small height reduction.
Yeah Idk what to do, because at the moment I like the way my truck sits not to low but it could be higher in my opinion and if I take out my spacer, ill end up taking out my rear blocks to avoid the front end nose dive again.
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Originally Posted by Anthonymcd95

Yeah Idk what to do, because at the moment I like the way my truck sits not to low but it could be higher in my opinion and if I take out my spacer, ill end up taking out my rear blocks to avoid the front end nose dive again.
Well my thoughts were drop the front 1" and see if it drives any better. If so then drop the rear an inch to match.
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I'd go Fabtech. If you want it bigger anyways. I've rode in a few fabtech lifted 2wd's and they ride pretty good. I wish I could get my 4x4 to ride that good.



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