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Old 10-17-2016, 09:40 PM
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You might want to bring your truck to a shop that you trust because I don't like the looks of that spring !! It could be your tierods, swaybar enlinks........ Itsbhard to tell without being by the truck
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It kind of looks like your inner strut is broke in half causing the spring to lean inward from the weight of the truck
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Unless the top bolt flew out of the 6" spacer that holds the strut and spring together, man I'd like to be there to help cause it looks like something simple to figure out but might take a minute to change some parts out, def keep us up to date please
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Here's some more

The strut is trashed. The bushings for both struts are trashed. More so on the driver strut. But could a bad strut cause the front left wheel to turn outwards when suspension is compressed? I don't understand why it would be doing that? To me it seems like a tie rod issue that would make it do that







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What all would be involved in just lowering the truck down to a leveling kit? That's where I want it height wise is like a 1-2 inch level. I don't like the lift
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What all would be involved in just lowering the truck down to a leveling kit? That's where I want it height wise is like a 1-2 inch level. I don't like the lift
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Restoring everything to stock and just installing a 2" spacer
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The main things would be stock steering knuckles and stock differential brackets.
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I don't know about other lifts besides rough country (that's what I have) because there's a piece of the frame that has to be cut off in order for the differential and cross member to fit so once it's up there's no dropping it back down



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