I was thinking about doing a Bilsteins lift, but I might just pull the trigger on a 2" RC leveling lift with 3" block and struts for rear. $199 is hard to beat, and honestly it might be worth seeing how I like the truck like that without spending $500+ on new struts and other things. Plus for $199, the RC kit gets a lot of great reviews!

 

You may want to go with Bilstein 5100 leveling shocks if your truck has 80K miles. This way you can level up to 2 inches and have new shocks at the same time. These should let you clear a 33" tire on a 4x2. Just a thought!

 

sounds like a good plan! any ideas where to start looking for the bilstein 5100 leveling shocks?

 

Why would you get two alignments?

Neither new tires, nor new rims require an alignment. Neither of those has any geometric change to your front suspension.

If you are getting an alignment after new tires/wheels you are wasting money unless you have a known issue which has since been corrected.

 

Any of the forum sponsors that sells shocks should offer you a great deal. I bought mine from a local offroad shop (front and rears) and had them install them.

 

$100 for the install?! Where'd you go?

 

Autoplicity was quoting me super low for the bilsteins but I did some research on them and found a lot of poor feedback about them, so I would try out AutoAnything. They seem to have the cheapest I've found.

 

MINCO, its a local place!

 

Dude... I wish we had a place like that around here. Meineke and a couple of other shops quoted me around 2-300. One quoted me $500.

 

Mine was only the 2 inch metal spacers placed on top of the struts. Very simple for the most part. I attempted to do it myself but I could not break the bottom strut bolt loose and didn't have a tool to do it. I had everything taken off except that stupid bolt. I finally gave up and took it to Minco.