Smoother ride ideas.

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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby comotionman » Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:05 am

Looks pretty good. How bout some more pics?
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Sutter1stgen » Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:26 pm

What would like me to snap a pic of ?
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Tacoclaw » Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:25 am

Just a to clear up the application question, are you using a factory-height set of 52" rear leaves and it gave you 6" of lift comparable to the stock Dodge front leaf setup?
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby comotionman » Tue Feb 11, 2014 4:19 pm

Sutter1stgen wrote:What would like me to snap a pic of ?


Sorry for the delayed response. How about a pic like this just taken of my stock w350 under the load of engine/chassis you can see its about 4.5" from frame bottom to top of spring plate. If you can take a pic like this it would be helpful. We can hopefully see reference to height, qty of leafs, arch....etc

After adjusting camera settings and Cropping the pic down in size I think it'll show up now.
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Sutter1stgen » Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:46 pm

Tacoclaw wrote:Just a to clear up the application question, are you using a factory-height set of 52" rear leaves and it gave you 6" of lift comparable to the stock Dodge front leaf setup?


I was told these are of the stock hight. They look to be from my prior expirience. The lift I had on it originally was what les swab sold (rough or tough country), and it was supposedly 6". But skyjackers 6" is taller.
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby comotionman » Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:27 pm

Bump.......finally got my pic to work. See my previous post edit.
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby CumminsPower59 » Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:50 pm

Do you have any pics of the whole truck since the spring change?
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Sutter1stgen » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:50 pm

I'll snap a pic first thing tomorrow for you guys. And il grab a measurement as well. Been a little busy running in circles it seems. Lol
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby CumminsPower59 » Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:59 pm

Awesome, thank you 8)
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Sutter1stgen » Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:00 am

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I measured 7" from spring plate to frame. 3/4 crush is not fun to lay on and snap a picture. Lol
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby CumminsPower59 » Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:44 am

Looks as if it's sitting about the same as my pile it has 2-3" in the front...

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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Sutter1stgen » Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:07 pm

A buddy of mine has a 92' with a 5.5 super lift. When we both had 35" tires on my truck sat about 1/2-1" taller than his. Both of our lifts are nothing compared to skyjackers 6" though. I think 3-4" is about what my old lift was accurately setting at.

Thanks, I have a set of factory steelies, beauty rings, and dog dish caps for it as well. I may put them in here shortly to have it look a little more stealth. Lol
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby comotionman » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:29 pm

Thanks. How many leafs in the pack? How thick is the pack? Did you pull out the overload or are you running it?
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby Sutter1stgen » Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:53 pm

6 leafs no overload. I think the leafs are about as thick as our leafs. I may remove one leaf later to experiment.
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Re: Smoother ride ideas.

Postby cougar » Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:38 am

Saw this on a truck I was looking at https://kelderman.com/ram_G1_dodge_air_ ... stage_rear .After having bent the rear part of the frame towing a trailer on my truck, this idea didn't appeal to me much.
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