Carlie Leveling Kit
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Carlie Leveling Kit
When I leveled my 06' I just did the front spacer pucks. I always regretted not doing an adjustable trac bar. I've been looking at the Carlie Leveling Kit with the Bilstien shocks, springs, and adjustable trac bar. My is a crew cab long bed, no camper or snow plow pckg. I have firestone ride rites in the rear with a pretty good rake stock. Will run a 34-35" tire on OEM 20" wheels. Any feedback on the kit? If I end up with a heavy bumper will I sag any in front? I don't need one of their full lift kits, although they look really nice. I would probably upgrade the rear shocks to match the fronts at the same time. So anyone have any feedback with Carlie? I haven't seen any negative so far, but haven't seen many just doing a leveling kit. Most are full suspension kits. Thanks for your help.
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When I leveled my 06' I just did the front spacer pucks. I always regretted not doing an adjustable trac bar. I've been looking at the Carlie Leveling Kit with the Bilstien shocks, springs, and adjustable trac bar. My is a crew cab long bed, no camper or snow plow pckg. I have firestone ride rites in the rear with a pretty good rake stock. Will run a 34-35" tire on OEM 20" wheels. Any feedback on the kit? If I end up with a heavy bumper will I sag any in front? I don't need one of their full lift kits, although they look really nice. I would probably upgrade the rear shocks to match the fronts at the same time. So anyone have any feedback with Carlie? I haven't seen any negative so far, but haven't seen many just doing a leveling kit. Most are full suspension kits. Thanks for your help.
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I have the 2.5" Carli leveling kit with 37x13.5x20 Toyo RTs on factory wheels. It rides great. I have no complaints at all. I just switched from 315/60/20 (basically a 35x12.5) Toyo MTs this weekend. The 37s rub on the radius arms, but they did that with the 315s too.
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35s. Sorry it's a cruddy pic, but I don't have a good one on 35s.
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35s. Sorry it's a cruddy pic, but I don't have a good one on 35s.
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I'm pretty sure it is. Honestly, I've never even paid attention to it since I haven't lifted the rear at all.
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Ordered the kit from 8 lug today. Thanks for the help. Damn Toyo RTs on national back order. Oh well. Just run the OEM Michelens for a while.
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You might try treaddepot.com. That is where I got mine just last week. They had no problem getting them to me in 2 days. I'm sure it depends on the size you are looking at. Discount tire told me that Toyo was 3 weeks behind on production of these.
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I installed the front springs, track bar and shocks (front and rear). I went back and forth over the rear springs, but I tow a 5th wheel and already had my airbags...so I decided to stick with factory springs. I'm pretty happy with it. I'm sure it doesn't have the same ride as some of the full kits, but I'm happy.
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