Leveling Kit Advice
Hangin 10 bra
Joined: Feb 2010
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From: Bartlett TN
Personally I have been chewing on this for my 04 and think the kind I would go with is the added cut leaf system. Its strong set and gives a much better ride than another leaf or overload spring. I want to maintain my stock ride as much as possible, so that is why I am looking at this.
Postmaster
Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Wayyy NoCal, USA
The longer add-a-leafs definitely make the ride more harsh. I have the set that came on my truck out in the back 40 rust collecting facility.
Since stock leaves had 150K and a bit of sag, I ended up with complete replacement spring pack from Tuff Country. Still a bit stiffer than stock, but much less so than add-a-leaf. Next I will try removing one leaf from the Tuff Country pack and adding air bags for heavy loads.
The stubby packs should be much better - they are more of a spacer than a spring re-arching system.
Since stock leaves had 150K and a bit of sag, I ended up with complete replacement spring pack from Tuff Country. Still a bit stiffer than stock, but much less so than add-a-leaf. Next I will try removing one leaf from the Tuff Country pack and adding air bags for heavy loads.
The stubby packs should be much better - they are more of a spacer than a spring re-arching system.
Mountain Pass
Joined: Jun 2010
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several years ago the tire shop where i lived had some overloads by Timberland. THEY ARE THE BEST. its a big rubber "boot" that goes where the rubber stop is on the rear axle and from experience i had a 36' trailer loaded with cows and my truck was level (99 f-250) the scales showed me at 29,300 for the life of me i cant find them on the web but try to find them paid less then 200.00 for a factory ride with no trailer to nice ride with a big load.
Junior User
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From: The real NY UPSTATE
Timbens work great
I have a '05, F250 CC, 4x4 short bed V10. I use it to pull a Lakota 5th wheel which has a fairly high pin weight. Although it wasn't overloaded, the rear did sag more than I liked. I installed the timben system in about 20 miuntes and it has worked great. They are a passive rubber spring from Goodyear (?) that mounts in place of your current bump stop. In normal use the spring is not touching the axle bracket so ride remains stock. Only when you add a heavy load do they come into play. When I hitch my trailer the rear drops about an inch and a half but because of the rubber spring, the load is also spread more evenly to the front which drops about 3/4 of an inch. The loaded ride quality is ok, but than a 250 4x4 is not very soft to begin with. Nicest part is the low cost compared to other systems and it is a DIY project with hand tools.
