Bowing coil after leveling kit install
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Bowing coil after leveling kit install
Hey everyone, new to the forum! I have a 2005 2wd F250, and today I began the install of a 2" aluminum leveling kit (the coil spacer variety). Everything was going smoothly until I tried to rebolt the coil spring to the upper bracket. because of the added height from the spacer, the coil has a bow, or "bulge" in it, attaching at the bottom and bending out toward the rotor. Does anyone know the remedy for this? Will it correct itself after a good alignment? or should I shim up the spacer? Please forgive my ignorance if this is common, a little bigger animal than my jeep that I lifted! Thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated!
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My coils bulge like you are describing. I was concerned at first, but after double checking and making sure they were indexed correctly I just decided to run it. That was 140,000 miles ago and it seems fine. Kinda irritating to look at though
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Thanks for the reply! Have you noticed anything different about how your truck rides after you installed your leveling kit? Also, did you take a look at the picture I added, to see if your coils bowing to the degree that mines at right now? It just seems pretty out of whack, like it might blow out on an especially hard bump
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Your pics aren't showing up. I didn't notice at first it was 2 wheel drive. Mine is 4. Mine do have a pretty good bow to them. Mine wandered a bit as it changed my caster a bit so I had an alignment done. Probably could have gone without the alignment as it wasnt too bad but it needed one anyhow. Hope this helps
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