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On 11/25/2019 at 10:18 AM, lschafroth said:

I forgot to measure!!  I am running 275/60/20 right now. Going to do lift and 305/55/20 in the spring. I'll try and remember to measure it tonight.

 

Lannie

I have a 1.5" level on mine and I sit at 39 1/8" both front and rear.  I currently have Nitto Grappler G2 275/60/20 tires. (these are horrible tires in rain)

I'm looking to go to the 295/60/20 Ridge Grapplers like you have. Great looking tire and the 60/20 will give  more tire height.

 

I didnt think the All-Terrain was any higher than stick. Curious why I'm at 39 1/8th with only a 1.5" level. Wondering what I'll have with a 3.5".....

 

Lannie

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I'm looking at doing a SuperLift 3.5" with the UCA and Diff drop.  I will be getting 5100 Bilsteins for front and back.  Should I use the strut to do the lift or keep the strut at the normal height and do the spacers?  How hard is the spring replacement? Did you take yours to  a shop or use spring compressors and do it all yourself?  Will I need to get new strut mounts etc? I have 155K on the existing struts so reusing the upper parts worry me.

 

Lannie

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21 hours ago, lschafroth said:

I'm looking at doing a SuperLift 3.5" with the UCA and Diff drop.  I will be getting 5100 Bilsteins for front and back.  Should I use the strut to do the lift or keep the strut at the normal height and do the spacers?  How hard is the spring replacement? Did you take yours to  a shop or use spring compressors and do it all yourself?  Will I need to get new strut mounts etc? I have 155K on the existing struts so reusing the upper parts worry me.

 

Lannie

The "correct" way to do it would be to leave the Bilstein shocks at factory height and add the spacer on top.  This combo netted me about a 3" lift, I was never able to get 3.5" from the kit.  The problem I have with the spacer lift is that at full droop, my CV axles angles were pretty ugly, and they concerned me.  That is the reason I'm running my current setup with Eibach springs and Bilstein struts, this setup doesn't over extend the suspension at droop.

The factory springs are very stiff, I took the coil overs off at the house, and took them to a local shop where he charged me $20 per coilover to install the new 5100 shocks.  Made my life a ton easier.  With that many miles I'd order new hardware and upper strut hats, I only had 30k miles on mine at the time.

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33 minutes ago, pewterliftedz said:

The "correct" way to do it would be to leave the Bilstein shocks at factory height and add the spacer on top.  This combo netted me about a 3" lift, I was never able to get 3.5" from the kit.  The problem I have with the spacer lift is that at full droop, my CV axles angles were pretty ugly, and they concerned me.  That is the reason I'm running my current setup with Eibach springs and Bilstein struts, this setup doesn't over extend the suspension at droop.

The factory springs are very stiff, I took the coil overs off at the house, and took them to a local shop where he charged me $20 per coilover to install the new 5100 shocks.  Made my life a ton easier.  With that many miles I'd order new hardware and upper strut hats, I only had 30k miles on mine at the time.

Thanks for the info! I assume with almost 160K I should take the time to replace the lower ball joints as well.

 

Lannie

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