Truxxx Leveling Kit for 10 Raptor

[iceman302]

I ran a leveling kit on my '08 Supercrew FX4 but it was a solid billet spacer and not two welded plates with a short "tower" like the Truxxx spacer. Is anyone else concerned about the possibility of breaking one of those spacers? Has that happened to anyone?

 

[pirate air]

Daystar has a leveling kit out for the Rap now.
Daystar™ - Driven by Design

I wouldn't be worried about either kit breaking. RaptorGuy21/Julian had the Truxxx kit and jumped the shit out of his truck. Never heard of his spacers breaking.

 

[iceman302]

Daystar has a leveling kit out for the Rap now.
Daystar™ - Driven by Design

I wouldn't be worried about either kit breaking. RaptorGuy21/Julian had the Truxxx kit and jumped the shit out of his truck. Never heard of his spacers breaking.

If I opt to level the truck, the Daystar kit looks like the best option to me. Good find!

 

[JP7]

Cool - the Daystars look good. But I want to get the ass end up 2" higher - I much prefer the look and the view is better with a slightly forward pitch helping you avoid those "oops, I fell off the rut into the 44's only hole" moments.
As for breaking spacers Iceman - yes, I've broken a few and solid is the way to go.
On my Bronco lifts, I always welded a 1/2" thick steel plate into the bottom of the lower coil mounts because over time and extensive wheeling - you can stretch the thing almost inside out! But that was with a Dana 44 setup, I haven't had much xp with independent front ends.

 

[bstoner59]

All the perch adjustment does is move the shaft down lower in comparison to the coil. Does not change preload or the "at rest" position of the shock internally. Just an FYI...

 

[iceman302]

All the perch adjustment does is move the shaft down lower in comparison to the coil. Does not change preload or the "at rest" position of the shock internally. Just an FYI...

Can anyone else chime in on this? It seems to me that raising the lower spring perch up would effectively cause the piston in the shock to be shifted downward in the body. The shaft has to reach further to bolt to the control arm. That would change the "at rest" position of the shock. Is my understanding correct or do I have it wrong?

 

[Hockster]

Can anyone else chim in on this? It seems to me that raising the lower spring perch up would effectively cause the piston in the shock to be shifted downward in the body. The shaft has to reach further to bolt to the control arm. That would change the "at rest" position of the shock. Is my understanding correct or do I have it wrong?

bstoner59 has it... All this change does is change the spring position... Which will change the way the shock works on road and off road... The tuning in the shock is still the same...

 

[CB17]

Anyone seen a price for the Daystar?

 

[kglesq]

All the perch adjustment does is move the shaft down lower in comparison to the coil. Does not change preload or the "at rest" position of the shock internally. Just an FYI...

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that. Given that the truck is suspended in the front by coilovers, the truck's height at rest is a direct function of the resting eye-to-eye length of the coilover. If you have made a change to the spring perch height on the shock body that results in the truck's resting height being higher, then you have increased the resting eye-to-eye length of the coilover, and thus changed the resting position of the piston in the body of the damper. The ONLY way to change the resting eye-to-length of the shock is to move the shaft and piston within the body.

 

[iceman302]

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that. Given that the truck is suspended in the front by coilovers, the truck's height at rest is a direct function of the resting eye-to-eye length of the coilover. If you have made a change to the spring perch height on the shock body that results in the truck's resting height being higher, then you have increased the resting eye-to-eye length of the coilover, and thus changed the resting position of the piston in the body of the damper. The ONLY way to change the resting eye-to-length of the shock is to move the shaft and piston within the body.

Exactly. Thanks for explaining it better than I did.