Help me adjust my lift

Bilsteins on front and rear, OME 885 coils, Wheeler's AAL with overload left in, LR UCA's, Stock TRD 17" wheels, 255/75-17 BFG KM tires

Currently measuring from ground to fender:

Front = 37.25
Rear = 38.5


I'd like to get it even. My front bilstein are set to 0. What should i set them to to get the stance level?

 

Was the lift recently installed? If so, wait for everything to settle a little before making additional adjustments.

 

Do you use your truck? Level sucks if so.

If not, I wouldn't bother with the front, if anything, I'd remove the overload from the rear and call it good.

Preloading a lift coil shouldn't be done at all, and if you must, no higher than .85.

I would learn to be happy with it as it sits, it's a better setup even if it doesn't match your aesthetic vision.

 

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You say stock 17" trd wheels, so Im assuming you have a sport. The sport springs arent that bad to preload. The offroads are way stiffer with the 5100s preloaded. At your current stance, I would say go to .85", any higher and youll end up nose high. My 5100s are set at 1.75" on my sport springs and it rides fine.

 

from what I understood from the wisdom here - you should not set Billys at anything other than O with 885 coils.

Maybe add a top plate spacer - 1/2 inch? Are you running the .25 spacer for taco lean?

 

I totally missed the 885 coils. OP, disregard my comment about the .85" setting, Im not familiar with those springs.

 

I'm pretty sure the arch on the rear fenders is higher than the fronts, so your truck at the measurements you posted, sounds to me like it is already pretty much leveled. Measure from the frame to the ground from both the front, and rear of the cab. I'd be willing to bet those measurements will show as level for the most part.

For about a month, I had my 5100's @ 1.75", with just the stock leafs, and measured dead even at all 4 corners, yet it still looked a little nose high to me. When I measured frame to ground under the cab, the front was a little higher than the rear.

 

Yeah I have the .25 spacer for lean. I don't really want to go with more spacers as that's what I was trying to avoid by buying this lift. Maybe I'll swap out the 885 for 887?

 

This may be true. I'll re measure but it's just clear to see when you look at the truck that the front sits a bit lower.

 

887s would work. Same spring rate with more lift. If you do truck stuff with it you may want to keep a little rake in it as others have said.

 

If you put anything in the bed then leave it the way it is. If you don't ever do that then remove the overload

 

why is rake good for off roading?

 

Correct me if I'm wrong guys, but I think they mean a rake is good if you ever load up your bed.

If you place a load in your bed (no pun intended), it would probably just level out the truck.

If the truck is already sitting level, the extra weight in the bed would make the rear sag.

 

Not for off-roading, rake is good for hauling/towing. When you load the bed with heavy material it was start to sag, if you level out your truck and haul or tow something then the rear end will sag, and could settle into permanent sag over time.

Trucks usually come with a slight rake from the factory to compensate for hauling and towing, since that's what they are usually designed to do.

 

Correctamundooooo.

 

Rake/stinkbug look is in



It also allows for flexing:

 

"Stinkbug" look, LOL.

I have close to a 2" rake on my truck after installing my 5100/OME 881 lift last month, since I went with the HS 3 leaf AAL in the rear. Left the factory overload leaf in. I like some rake but 2" is a bit much for my taste so I might remove the overload leaf or bump the front billies up to .85, haven't decided on which yet.

 

If it helps decide.. removing the overload from the rear will only drop you down the thickness of that leaf. Which is probably +/- 1/2 inch.

If 1.5" of rake is still too much, then I'd address the front end, particularly if you use the truck. The 3 leaf AALs are great, but they don't handle weight that well, and even less so with the overload removed.

 

Thanks, that sounds like the route I'll probably end up going since I don't want to compromise the integrity of the front end by preloading it. A 1/2" decrease in the rear would be a perfect rake setting I think