Amazon Leveling Kit Review
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5th Wheeling
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Amazon Leveling Kit Review
Ready Lift and Amazon suppliers kit look virtually identical. I will add the shocks so not using the extender. Less than half the price and excellent reviews. I will be adding the ready lift track bar as their design seems much more robust. Also will use my own grade 8 hardware in either kit.
Anyone use the Amazon kit?
Ready Lift:
Amazon:
Anyone use the Amazon kit?
Ready Lift:
Amazon:
Mountain Pass
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I have no experience with this particular product, but I’ve ordered enough cheap **** online that looked so much like the real thing and always end up seeing why it’s so much cheaper after using it.
Very rarely are products twice as expensive just because a manufacturer is being greedy. I don’t think I’d cheap out on suspension for a 8k lb truck.
Very rarely are products twice as expensive just because a manufacturer is being greedy. I don’t think I’d cheap out on suspension for a 8k lb truck.
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5th Wheeling
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This is exactly why I'm asking because the ready lift kit looks like that also. Is ready lift "made in USA" or same chinese *****?
I go to OUO's website and the prices are even further exaggerated, my thought is "you get what you pay for". Sometimes true, sometimes not. I do know with OUO's leveling kit, they use a spring spacer on the bottom of the spring, not the steel powdercoated spacer on top. Also they recommend radius arm drop brackets. Seems I've searched threads of leveled trucks on here and the ready lift kit seems just like amazon kit users, happy and all good.
I want to do this 1 time but dont want to overspend if not necessary. Trying to keep it simple as possible. Thx
I go to OUO's website and the prices are even further exaggerated, my thought is "you get what you pay for". Sometimes true, sometimes not. I do know with OUO's leveling kit, they use a spring spacer on the bottom of the spring, not the steel powdercoated spacer on top. Also they recommend radius arm drop brackets. Seems I've searched threads of leveled trucks on here and the ready lift kit seems just like amazon kit users, happy and all good.
I want to do this 1 time but dont want to overspend if not necessary. Trying to keep it simple as possible. Thx
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5th Wheeling
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So I just watched ready lifts factory tour video. I saw no where in the facility where they are forging the track bar drop bracket. They are having it manufactured where? Off shore? . OUO fabricates their own track bar bracket from plate steel but the question is when is it "good enough". Aside from the track bar relocation bracket, the rest of the Amazon/ Ready Lift kits are "spacers". As long as steel is same dimensionally and welded appropriately, these kits are the same
OUO = $2614
Ready Lift = $430 kit + $400 track bar = $830
Amazon kit = $190 + Ready Lift Track bar $400 = $590
And this is w/o shocks or rear block/ air bags etc
OUO = $2614
Ready Lift = $430 kit + $400 track bar = $830
Amazon kit = $190 + Ready Lift Track bar $400 = $590
And this is w/o shocks or rear block/ air bags etc
Cargo Master
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I purchased and installed the Ready Lift kit (2") years ago and am well pleased with it too. When I bought it there were no clones available....if so would I have bought a knock off, sure why not. My Ready Lift kit was made in China (said it all over the boxs), assuming they followed US standards and met certain requirements. If your shocks are still good then use the shock extensions until you need/want longer shocks. My kit has been on for 7 years and no issues plus I never had an alignment yet either. I'm real happy with it but if I could have saved a few bucks why not. I know lots of people will install the front lift blocks (only) and then buy an adjustable track bar to save some money.
Cargo Master
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I have no experience with this particular product, but I’ve ordered enough cheap **** online that looked so much like the real thing and always end up seeing why it’s so much cheaper after using it.
Very rarely are products twice as expensive just because a manufacturer is being greedy. I don’t think I’d cheap out on suspension for a 8k lb truck.
Very rarely are products twice as expensive just because a manufacturer is being greedy. I don’t think I’d cheap out on suspension for a 8k lb truck.
Fleet Mechanic
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I would not use a cheap track bar bracket and certainly not a cheap cast one.. the savings isn't worth the risk to me. There are lots of counterfeit AND junk clone products on Amazon and Ebay these days. I sourced all the parts separate when I did my truck.
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Hotshot
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How about a 2 inch ebay under spring spacer, amazon track bar drop bracket, some name brand shocks, and adding 2.6 and 2.3 caster? I thought this was the cheapest way.
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5th Wheeling
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What parts did you use, Specifically track bar bracket? And is it cast or forged? Hard to tell from pics
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5th Wheeling
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I'm not necessarily looking for cheapest way, but balancing the budget along with having no problems. It seems OUO which I am using as a standard uses lower spring spacers vs the upper spacer block. Is one better than the other? OUO uses an adjustable spacer for 2.5" lift and I don't think I need the adjustment, just adds to the price. Coil levelers are $252 and I want 2.5", dont need adjustable, or do I. Ready lift kit just seems very simple and many people using it with no issues. I would call OUO and ask but I thought I read on here they were bought out and not so much hands on anymore.
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Ready Lift and Amazon suppliers kit look virtually identical. I will add the shocks so not using the extender. Less than half the price and excellent reviews. I will be adding the ready lift track bar as their design seems much more robust. Also will use my own grade 8 hardware in either kit.
Anyone use the Amazon kit?
Ready Lift:
Amazon:
Anyone use the Amazon kit?
Ready Lift:
Amazon:
Both use a cast block, forging doesn't produce sand marks, and I can see mold lines on both. The biggest tell which one is cheap and which is not is the hardware itself. The first one uses what looks like Grade 8 hardware, the bottom one uses Grade 5, if that. Your hardware it the most critical component here, its what secures the parts in place. Those pics tell me that the bottom one uses Chinesium steel, would not use it in something I trust my life to.
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I started with the reality kit and have been slowly pulling it off.
theres track bar drop bracket rubbed on turns …I grinder some off with a grinder and now its not that bad…but…I bought a Stryker drop bracket and will soon swap that out.
rear lift blocks are cast and eventually get elongating pin guide holes which puts your rear axle out of alignment.. same solution …Stryker steel blocks with sleeves pending install to replace those.
Don’t like the ride on the top of the coils spacers so I have some dual rate coils coming in to replace the coil and spacer.
had to replace the anti sway bar to a helwig one due to rubbing
rhe sway bar drop spacers did not sling enough and I had to replace the anti sway links
kit didn’t come with a pitman arm drop so I had to buy that.
didn’t come with radius arm drops brackets so I had to buy that.
should have bought Stryker from the start.
theres track bar drop bracket rubbed on turns …I grinder some off with a grinder and now its not that bad…but…I bought a Stryker drop bracket and will soon swap that out.
rear lift blocks are cast and eventually get elongating pin guide holes which puts your rear axle out of alignment.. same solution …Stryker steel blocks with sleeves pending install to replace those.
Don’t like the ride on the top of the coils spacers so I have some dual rate coils coming in to replace the coil and spacer.
had to replace the anti sway bar to a helwig one due to rubbing
rhe sway bar drop spacers did not sling enough and I had to replace the anti sway links
kit didn’t come with a pitman arm drop so I had to buy that.
didn’t come with radius arm drops brackets so I had to buy that.
should have bought Stryker from the start.
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Ready Lift and Amazon suppliers kit look virtually identical. I will add the shocks so not using the extender. Less than half the price and excellent reviews. I will be adding the ready lift track bar as their design seems much more robust. Also will use my own grade 8 hardware in either kit.
Anyone use the Amazon kit?
Ready Lift:
Amazon:
Anyone use the Amazon kit?
Ready Lift:
Amazon:
Fleet Mechanic
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https://bisonoffroad.com/product/tra...4wd-2008-2024/
Uptice 2" leveling blocks
https://uptice.com/products/uptice-2...super-duty-4wd
SPC Camber/ caster bushings
https://www.spcalignment.com/index.p...tion&pid=23268
https://www.spcalignment.com/index.p...tion&pid=23269
The brake line extensions were ebay junk and I swapped my shocks for Fox 2.0
If I were doing it over I would keep the stock track bar bracket and get a quality adjustable track bar
I don't see anything wrong with a quality cast piece, and buying an actual brand name gives some security in quality. You could buy a knock-off unknowingly or a clone and there's no guarantee of QA/QC. I would hate to have it break at 75mph on my 37" tires.....