In my experience they will settle to 1/2-5/8".
OEM Front Coil Spacers Installed (2 Viewers)
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In my experience they will settle to 1/2-5/8".
man I would be disappointed if it ended up being 1/2”. That’s a lot of work for such a small amount of lift. I went for a short drive and the front seems to nosedives less. is that your experience too?
I mean they are only 10mm which equates to .39" so considering they settle to 1/2" or slightly more I'd say that's pretty good. They do help firm up the front end some which does reduce some of the dive.
bloc
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The lower strut bolt hitting the LCA roughly half way out means there is a motion ratio approaching 2:1.. so a 10mm spacer should give about 20mm of lift.
Go much further and you risk bottoming the strut before the bump stops. Bad news.
I believe the ratio isn’t quite 2:1.. when I did the job the spacers added a pretty solid 3/4” to my truck after settling.
Go much further and you risk bottoming the strut before the bump stops. Bad news.
I believe the ratio isn’t quite 2:1.. when I did the job the spacers added a pretty solid 3/4” to my truck after settling.
The spacers are 3/8” thick and should get you 3/4” of lift. Because of the suspension geometry every 1” of coil length gives you 2” of lift (so yeah what @bloc said)
I never netted that much, mine settled to 5/8" at best.
Read this and felt it would be worthwhile to ask you to comment on sequencing of reassembly - are steps in video for reassembly ok - or do you have any additional advice? I have spacers on-hand and going to tackle soon. Thanks
Installed mine and very happy with the result. I didn’t notice any changes to the ride quality.
Looks great. What size tire are those?
285/65/18
0.5 degree positive camber is within spec. Are they saying that can't go higher, or can't go lower? I have more lift but try to run a bit less camber than that.
How much lift are you running?
They have to make a choice of caster against camber. With more lift, both aspects need more correcting and it is a balancing act. What's your caster at? The platform doesn't need a ton and if there's enough caster, they may be able to back some out to gain camber.
0.5º is not bad though and it is in spec. I tend to like my setups with more neutral camber to some negative to increase cornering bite.
You can go use a caster corrected UCA. I don't like those either as they reduce clearance against the BMC but if you're not running too large of a tire, can be workable.
Appreciate the info about within spec...noted. They are saying they can't get it closer to 0. During tire rotation, I noticed significant uneven tire wear on the fronts...thus my request to get closer to 0.
The only lift is from the coil spacer. Stock suspension otherwise. Caster is 3.2º L and 3.5º R according to their print out.
Thank you both!!
I run close to 0 but even at 0.5 you shouldn’t have much wear. Typically camber doesn’t create a ton of wear unless you’re really positive or negative, in which case it will wear just one edge. Caster will create a little bit in both edges of the tire as the tire leans more in a turn. Toe is usually where you get the most wear, and setting it to about 1/32” of toe in is best - just enough to keep the steering fixed.
Duggy's quoted me $1338 to do the spacers and alignment. Guess I need to call around to some other shops.
