Adding lift/leveling kit
10-22-2018, 02:30 PM
#12
Mark
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10-22-2018, 09:07 PM
#13
You can lift the rear with a block or add a leaf raising the rear 1.5” with the stock shocks. When you lift the front ensure that you still have 2-3” of down travel. IMO leveling kit spacers are a poor choice. You in essence just crank a bunch of preload into your coil overs which destroys both the on and offroad usability in a quest to fit larger tires. Replacement coil overs are a better choice. In addition the rear stock shocks are garbage.
10-23-2018, 01:30 PM
#15
Senior Member
You can lift the rear with a block or add a leaf raising the rear 1.5” with the stock shocks. When you lift the front ensure that you still have 2-3” of down travel. IMO leveling kit spacers are a poor choice. You in essence just crank a bunch of preload into your coil overs which destroys both the on and offroad usability in a quest to fit larger tires. Replacement coil overs are a better choice. In addition the rear stock shocks are garbage.
Both have benefits (and downsides). With spacers, on max droop, the angles are more extreme than stock at max droop....but you don't lose travel. With the Bils, you lose travel but at max droop, you're at about the same angles as stock. In either case, the angles when you're driving around are the same (assuming the same amount of lift).
That said, I'm not looking at much lift, probably going to go with Bils at 1.26" up front and an inch taller block in the rear (with Bils in the rear).
Last edited by 11screw50; 10-23-2018 at 01:33 PM.
10-25-2018, 11:36 AM
#18
You won’t regret it. I constantly have guys running up to me now to talk about the truck. The amount of sidewall flex when you hit an obstacle is awesome to, and the soft drone of these x3’s is nice. I’m not sure if that soft drone will become a loud drone at 30,000 miles, but I expect to replace at 35,000 anyways.