Since I have to do my ball joints after my engine I am thinking about doing a leveling kit to hopefully stop my passenger side tire from hitting my plastic inner fender.

How ever we do them at work and I am looking at rough country, how ever I am looking at their leveling spring not the spring block. Wanted to ask those on here that went this route did the taller leveling spring help with ride quality?

I know the late model trucks we do the springs are taller and they make the ford truck ride softer not as harsh. Im curious on this if its something I could expect.

If no change then I am tempted to just do the block and reuse my existing springs.

 

I've got 31x10.5-15 Duratracs, stock rear springs(heavy payload), dual front shocks, and used moog 844 front coils, gave about 2-2.5" lift. Ride is a bit firmer, but feels better.

 

I went with the Rough Country leveling coils on my 85. Mines a 2WD, not sure what yours is so maybe this won't apply to yours. As far as ride quality goes it did improve on mine because my stock springs were shot, giving it a very bouncy, rough ride. Now with the new coils it is firmer but in a good way.

 

Don't go over 1.5 inches of lift. You can see in the picture below his tires are tucked in at the bottom a little bit.

 

Mine is 2wd, short bed, swb flare side. Mine isn't a bouncing ride mine is just a firm hardish ride. Before I dropped the air pressure down in my tires to what the door tag says, they were over inflated from behind you could see the tires front and rear were egg shapped. Once I dropped the pressure down from 50 psi to 32psi the ride quality improved some but was wondering if it would make it even better. Ive done quite a few leveling kits at work but they all been on newer trucks. So I guess it was hopeful wishing.

Nice, sadly I am not looking to go for a full on lift. Like how my truck sits now its just the KO2`s I have they scrub my passenger side plastic fender wheel on some bumps. more bumps if I have a passenger. Don't know if new ball joints and an alignment will fix that but I figured a 1.5" leveling kit would. If mine was 4x4 then sure I would probably go for more also.

Oh I didn't plan on doing any more than the 1.5" level kit. I just want to stop my tire from scrubbing the plastic fender when I hit a good bump with a passenger with me. Its kind of embarising to be going down the road and hear rrrrrr as the rough shoulder of the KO2`s grind against the plastic inner fender on the passenger side.

If new ball joints and an alignment would solve the problem I wouldn't even do a lift kit. I just never had this problem with the old pathfinder tires from discount nor the KO1`s but these KO2`s that replaced the KO1`s have an aggressive off road shoulder that contacts my plastic fender. Main goal is to stop the scrubbing on hitting bumps and I figured a rough country 1.5" leveling kit for my '82 2wd truck should be enough to solve the issue. Might have to put new leaf springs as I don't know if mine are sagging or not wont know till I do the leveling kit if I even do it.

 

What size tires are you running that you are getting scrubbing? As far as my stock front coils went it was pretty obvious that they were no good. The front of the truck was a lot lower then the rear and they were bouncy as in I could bounce the front of the truck with one hand easily. If you are already experiencing a stiff ride then I don't think the leveling kit will change that much, it is just how these trucks ride. It will help with the rubbing though of course. One warning for the leveling kit is that you will need adjustable camber bushings to get it back into alignment. If you are taking it in for an alignment then its no big deal as they will install them. My alignment isn't perfect, like Franklin said above about the tires leaning slightly, but it is within spec for the truck.

 

im running 31x10.50-15 BFG All Terrain TA KO2 tires. I was fine with the KO1 no rubbing but the shoulder of the ko2 is more agressive and it hits the plastic fender with big bumps at speed by myself. With a passenger it tends to scrub on smaller bumps as well at speed.

i also have a set of moog ball joints ill be installing cold weather i get some ball joint pop and i figured i would do it all at the same time.