Need advice on picking a lift.

KUATO · Jul 15, 2019

I'm looking to do a lift on my 2015 SR5 4x4 LB. I've been doing some research and It seems I'd be roughly looking for the 1.75 in front and 1" or 1.5 in rear. I dont want a reverse rake(rear end down). Maybe a slightly less rake than it is stock.

I do want the small lift but I also want the truck to have stiffer rear leafs for towing/ heavy loads and I want the truck to ride alot better over rough surfaces. As of now to cross over railroad tracks for instance I have to slow waaaaay down while a family sedan just goes right over them. If I hit a pothole is feels like I'm gonna fly off the road. I dont want to make the handling any worse either.

I'd like to spend 2k or less including installation. I realize that may be a mid point where I need to either spend alot more or I might not benefit in spending more than 1000. I want to do this once and right. I dont see myself wanting to add more lift than this and the tires are already one size up from stock(265 75's)Unless the truck somehow grows 2 more cylinders i dont want to go with a larger lift or more tire.

ovrlndkull · Jul 15, 2019

How much towing/hauling do you do? Off the top of my head I would just do an AAL in the rear and put some air bags as the stock rear leafs aren't too sturdy and most HD leaf packs unless you custom order will provide a lot more lift than you are wanting. In the front something like Bilstein 5100s or OME shocks with an 885 spring would be good. Also rear shocks a Billie 5100 or OME nitrocharger. This is going to be a decent set up for your wants. You can go higher end and better but out comes the wallet. Especially if part of your budget is having a shop install.

JustAddMud · Jul 15, 2019

I'm going to quote a post I wrote a while ago on this subject, while it might not specifically answer your question, it should give you some food for thought. The math might look a little fuzzy but bear with me. Additionally, it would be wise to keep in the back of your mind what your intentions are with your rig. Tow/Haul vrs camp/crawl, pavement princess vrs dirty dancer.

-J

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I don't normally respond to these types of threads but I do have a little piece of advise. If you're on the fence about brand X vrs brand Y so you opt for the cheaper option knowing full well that down the line you'll be getting the more expensive set-up later on, for whatever reason you have, save your money and get that more expensive option first. Hear me out. Say your cheaper option is 900$ for the full front/rear set-up and the more expensive option is running you around 2500$. These are purely hypothetical numbers mind you. So you purchase the 900$ option and its shipped free to your door and lets say for example that you have the tools and the time and the knowledge on how to install it yourself. Takes you 6 hours on a weekend to install it. You're happy with your purchase and drive it with the intention of getting a few years out of it before trading up with the intention of reselling it. You resell it for 500$, use that towards your original more expensive lift which is now a bit cheaper because its older so now you're eye-balling the next best thing which is, you guessed it, 2500$. You put your 500$ toward it plus the extra 2000$ and you buy your new suspension toy. It arrives free shipping to your door but now you have to spend another 6 hours uninstalling/reinstalling this new lift. So you spent 900$ on the first suspension, sold it for 500$ and you're out 400$ (+6 hours for the initial install). You use the 500$ you earned from the resale towards the initial 2500$ bringing the cost down to 2000$ out of your own money that you have to come up with. Remember that you're still out that initial 400$ from the resale so we add that back into 2000 which brings us back up to 2400$ (this is solely what you have invested in your suspension lift up to this point) now you have to get it installed again, so add that time again. If you cannot install it yourself, you must add the install cost twice, once for the initial, and a second to reinstall the next suspension.

You may think that because you sold your old lift for 500$ that you're reducing the cost of the new lift by 500$, simple math right? We tend to forget about what we initially purchased the first lift for. This would get added to the total of the second lift outright unless you happened to get lucky and resell it for exactly what you bought it for. Basically this is just food for thought, something to think about. I wish I learned this before I purchased my OME 885 with 90021's and Dakar leaf pack+

$82 D29xl Leaf Spring

D29xl. I enjoy this lift, and it suits me just fine currently but I'm now eye balling some Kings with a remote reservoir for both the front and rear. There are a few more players in the suspension market now so I may have to go back to the drawing board. But you get my point. If I was going to sell my current OME set-up, I wont get back what I initially purchased it for so Ill be out the overhead plus the cost of the new suspension. I hope this makes a bit of sense. You can save a bit of money if you buy used/rebuilt from a member on here that may be selling theirs, but when it comes to suspension (this is only my opinion) I like to know the history of the parts before I trust it on my vehicle because God forbid, it breaks in the middle of the trail when I'm miles from civilization. If the guy prior Mobbed the tar out of the suspension and its been used and abused, I wouldn't trust it to get the miles I need out of it.

TLDR: Buy your first choice of suspension even if its more expensive than what your alternatives are if you intend on reselling and upgrading down the road. It'll save you time and money in the long run.

-J
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ThaiChillyTaco · Jul 15, 2019

Go with Fox's or go home

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