I'm looking at my options to improve my steering and ride quality in my 1999 f350. I bought it a couple months ago as my first lifted truck. as expected by y'all, it rides like hell and is pretty squirrely. my question is will the rancho 9000 improve my ride as much as yours with a additional 4" lift. or is my only option to remove the lift?

 

Welcome to FTE, Jon Gleason.

I took your post in the old thread and created a new thread out of it. It won't get lost in the old post this way.

Good luck!

 

In most cases with a lift on the older trucks with front leaf springs the ride is going to suffer a bit shocks may help some the shocks that are included in lift kits aren't usually great unless you spring for the upgrade that some companies offer which is a bilstein 5100 or similar. Here the choice of shock is either the rs9000 that you mentioned or the bilstein 5100. As for the steering if it's squirrelly then the front end needs going through ball joints tie rod ends trac bar bushings and may even need a steering box not saying it needs everything but it could need to check things out. My truck has a 4" lift and drives great but it also has had the front end gone through completely new everything but steering box which was done before I lifted it.

 

I've had many lifted trucks. I've had Cognito, Pure Performance, Fabtech and super lift kits all with at least a nice bilstein shock. All of my trucks have rode quite good lifted but not as good as stock.

 

I'm with mxsledder and Mike. I've had lifted trucks using Icon and Carli and both trucks have ridden as good or better than stock. Go through the front and end choose good lift components and you will be happy with how the truck drives.

 

Look into a RedHead steering box as a replacement, buy your own pitman arm as the current one probably can't be removed easily, they are all the same for a 4" lift. Also get underneath and shake the track bar to see if the bushings are shot, symptoms include death wobble at high speed and the truck making lane changes with no input from the driver. Driveline carrier bearing is probably ready for rebuild/replacement also.