I bought a Arctic snowplow for my truck.
1998 Ram 1500 sport with Rancho 3" lift, 2" body lift, and 35 X 12.50 X 15 Goodyear MTR Kevlar tires.
I was looking for more capacity coil springs , but that would give me my same lift hight.
I thought about putting Ram 2500 diesel springs in, but I could not find a direct answer of exactly what they would raise a stock Ram 1500.
So I came across Dayton HD Springs.
Stock Ram 1500 springs are 770lbs per spring.
Daytons ( #350-1202SD ) are rated at 1770 per spring.
They claim that they will raise only a 1/2" over stock springs.
I figured that would be great and would give me better capacity and I can use the 3" Rancho lift block.
I also installed new Rancho RS5000 shocks, since the one that came with the lift kit back in 1998 would not come apart from rust on the upper mount ( broke them off ).
OK, so the low down on the springs.
Truck rides better and definitely has more capacity.
Before I started, I measured from level concrete to the bottom of the license plate ( 24 3/4" ).
After installing springs and taken out for a test ride ( seat/settle the springs ) it measured 26 1/2".
So the springs did change ride hight to + 1 3/4".
I may add 1" - 1 1/2" bigger blocks to the rear rear, since it looks a little droopy to me.
I just need to put the plastic valence back on the bottom of the bumper.

Spring : Dayton #350-1202SD ( I paid $145.00 for the pair )
Shocks Rancho RS5000 #RS5221

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2500 diesel springs or v10 springs will rase a stock ram

here u go
https://dodgeforum.com/forum/2nd-gen...-my-dodge.html

 

Yep, and thats for the link.
But, still no one tells how much that it raised the truck over stock.
I searched and searched though threads here.
Many 2500 spring swap threads with post ranging from 2" - 4 1/2" rise over stock.
No happy medium, 2" - 4 1/2" is a big range.
I can tell you for a fact that the Dayton spring swap that I did raised the truck 1 3/4".
The spring height were with in 1/2" of the stock factory spring.
I started this thread to help and give people exactly what the Dayton springs have done compared the stock 1500 springs.

 

Probably a fair bit of the variation is due to different amounts of spring sag from truck to truck. Putting diesel springs on a truck with already sagging springs is going to give more lift than a truck that the springs were still in pretty good shape.

 

if you put good diesel springs in its about 3.5" - 4" of lift. thats what i did/got.

its hard to tell. just gotta throw them in and hope for the best

 

Yep, so what I ended up with is the 3" Rancho lift block and 1 3/4 from the HD coil spring install = 4 3/4 total lift in the front.