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Somehow I developed a 7" rake in the front end, From the top of the front-fender side marker to the top of the body bend at the rear of the bed, it's over 7.5 inches difference. Front end has sagged? Looking under it, the coils are not broken, and the shocks are not leaking. I did see it needs new radius arm bushings, one of the plastic shims has cracked..... So now the whole ugliness of the front end, being a 4x4 with TTB, if just installing 5" lift coils, shocks and extended brake lines, How do I avoid a disastrous Camber value? Does someone make a pre-bent axle tubes for lifts? or do I rely on my Ron-co camber shims to get the tires perpendicular to the road? Thoughts?
I am not up on the 4x4 TTB but from what I seen posted anything more than 2" life you need to run drop brackets.
That would be for the radius arms and the axle pivots.
Sorry to say you dont get any more ground clearance but you can then run larger tires that should give you a little.
As for the rake, stock all pickups have rake are you just seeing it now because you have the measuring stick out?
Kind of hard to tell and I cant really measure as I dont have anything to go off of.
Maybe the body lines?
The springs are used, F&R, dont know mileage just used what I thought were the best from the 2 trucks.
New poly bushings up front, old rubber out back, new shocks at each corner and mine is a 4x2 truck with a 300 six.
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Somehow I developed a 7" rake in the front end, From the top of the front-fender side marker to the top of the body bend at the rear of the bed, it's over 7.5 inches difference. Front end has sagged? Looking under it, the coils are not broken, and the shocks are not leaking. I did see it needs new radius arm bushings, one of the plastic shims has cracked..... So now the whole ugliness of the front end, being a 4x4 with TTB, if just installing 5" lift coils, shocks and extended brake lines, How do I avoid a disastrous Camber value? Does someone make a pre-bent axle tubes for lifts? or do I rely on my Ron-co camber shims to get the tires perpendicular to the road? Thoughts?
I believe you are making something a problem that isn't. And you are correct, you can't lift the front with just the springs.
Coud be Dave, but I didn't have such a "tilt" last year, looked at the spring cups too, they are still solid, Thinking the springs relaxed too much....
Caution; Do not look at the stance of the truck or the front suspension if you backed the truck in and stopped. The TTB frontend does weird things when you back up. Pull forward a couple of feet and then stop and look at it.
Hi Dave G, 5 years ago was new springs, never a load in the bed, @ 3000 miles,
Dave F. will do, pull it forward and look. Here's what it looked like last year...
