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blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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Look into Fox or King. Maybe they make long travel coilovers that will work with your 6" kit. You will need new UCAs too. That will be costly.

blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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It can happen but it's not "normal" or good. It typically comes from too much lift without other corrections being made, such as your case Chase. I'm guessing you have a 2.5" leveling kit?

ChaseN Enthusiast

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Yes, but in the near future it's coming off. IF I don't trade this thing for a '13 F150 fx4, I'm going to put a 2.25 ready lift on it with stock Tahoe wheels and zeon ltz's

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blackout07:

if lets say I found a long travel coil overs... will replacing the UCA alone will do the trick ?

and we you say long travel do you mean a couple go inches "longer" or is it more like the ones used in Baja racing Trucks?

I really want something similar to Baja Trucks but I don't thing the extra long travel coil overs will fit to my truck without major cuttings right?

blackout07 Senior Enthusiast

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This is out of my realm of "expertise.". I would contact Fox and see what your options are with the BDS kit. I'm just guessing you would need long travel coilovers that would work with your lift and new UCAs.

TimmyG Senior Enthusiast

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This is out of my realm of "expertise.". I would contact Fox and see what your options are with the BDS kit. I'm just guessing you would need long travel coilovers that would work with your lift and new UCAs.
maybe talk to bds tech line?

 

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Hate to bring this back from the dead (especially as a nOOb to this forum) but I was searching around online and I have the same issue: Stiff ride with BDS lift.

 

 

My truck is an 07' GMC Sierra 1500 4wd EC with the 5 3/4' bed. When I put my BDS lift on the truck road rode really rough imo. I contacted BDS and we went over a few things to check out all of which seemed to be fine. They then told me most likely it was my tires and not the lift.

 

Right now the truck has 325/60R18 Nitto Terra Grapplers that are Load E rated. They say the Load E on a 1500 tends to see harsh feeling in the ride. The best way to describe how my truck reacts is this:

 

If you are going from a road transition (say asphalt to concrete) that has a drop, it feels and sounds like the truck is slamming hard with the drop. It's pretty aggravating to say the least. This also applies to pot holes etc.

 

At work, I have to drive over 3 speed bumps to exit the center and unless I am going less than 5 mph (basically very slow roll) over the speed bumps, It will feel as if the rebound on the front end it too stiff and the truck has a "bouncing" feeling. --- technical description --- hit speed bump: compresses truck goes up, off speed bump: rebounds truck goes down, slight bounce of the front end back up.

 

Not sure if you fixed your solution, but I'd sure like to hear if you changed anything. I'm considering getting a top spacer from another kit and switching back to a stock strut to see if that fixes it. If not, the next thing I will try is new tires.

 

 

One more thing to mention: I did adjust my sway bar end links to where they are just tight and no more. That seems to help ever so slightly but not much.

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