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Old May 29, 2012 | 05:55 PM
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I installed a 3inch coil spring spacer to level out my truck and man does it look good. BUT!!!! it rides like a freaking go kart if not worse! is there ANY possible way to make the ride better without sacrificing the lift?
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Old May 29, 2012 | 06:34 PM
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Holy crap 3 inches :O Thats pretty large, there really isn't much you can do, if you want the height and ride quality look into a real coil spring lift not a spacer
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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:07 PM
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Mine did the same thing. But I had 3" tbar keys I put in and jacked it up all the way and it was really bouncie and my CV boots started to leak so I would take them out before you have to replace your boots.
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Old May 29, 2012 | 08:24 PM
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Remove your sway bars. It will help some. Don't think it will be able to be aligned correctly.I think 2 or 2.5 is the most you can go and thats with buying camber bolts. I had The same stiff ride problem when I installed 2" coil spacers.7 Months later all my ball joints were toast. I would recommend if you want to go 3" sell the spacers and get some lift spindles,it will ride like factory and not were joints out. JMO.
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Old May 30, 2012 | 01:13 AM
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i did install the new camber bolts but dang....and i replaced ball joints and tie rods a week ago so i definitely dont want them going out
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Old May 30, 2012 | 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jb2012
i did install the new camber bolts but dang....and i replaced ball joints and tie rods a week ago so i definitely dont want them going out
I changed all my ball joints when I installed my 2" coil spacers and had no clue that it would wipe out the ball joints that quickly. So when they did go bad the second time,I wasn't going to replace them every 7 months to a year again so I dropped an extra 250 on some 3.5 spindles and couldn't be happier.Just wish I knew that before the second set of joints.
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Old May 31, 2012 | 06:44 PM
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Robd- I am definitely going that route in the near future! will i need new shocks for the spindle lift?
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