mind you i only got the 1.5" oh well kijij here i come buyer be ware and recmonded for on raod use only lol monkey do you know if there is a big difference between the 1.5 band 2" plus mine is the under plate spacer from TM

 

well try it and look at the front end geomotry and you decide

 

i have a 2in above strut that i added too, around 1 more inch of lift, no problems yet, but i dont have a whole lot of miles either, i guess if anyone has troubles, it should be me, with the big spacer and the 33x12.50's, AWD, and sees a lot of off road, i guess we will just have to wait and see, but it dont bother me to much, just replaceable parts, and something i am willing to deal with, but to me, the angles dont seem all that bad...

ALSO: the c/v's wont pull apart, the upper a-arm will hit the spring and limit suspention travel before the c/v will pull apart, but its not very much past that point and they will seperate, (i think about 3/4 in more movement)

 

Ah yeah, the upper control arm swinging into the spring.....hell of a limiter lol.

With 2 kits installed, the upper control arm will probably allow around 2" of suspension travel before contacting the spring lol.

I think you have about the best looking truck on here, honestly those bumpers are great. Keep us posted on reliability.

 

In all honesty, wouldnt it be pretty easy for you 4x4 guys to create a diff drop for the front end? Aren't the mild diff drops usually only little puck spacers? Plus, I think there are some options for tie rod ends as well, the easiest being flipping the end. You would figure doing those two things, would allow your front end to run 3.5" of lift with two leveling kits, the TM, and a Daystar/autospring/CCM

 

The under the plate spacer from TM is the best option. It pre-loads the coil spring inside the strut. the big advantage to this kit is that the strut (shock part) still remains the suspension limiter, once its fully extended, it stops no farther then the factory suspension would. This is because the TM creates lift by eating up some of the suspension travel, so the suspension an technically travel no farther then it could stock.

The other type of kits, like daystar, that mount of top of the strut, actually lowers the entire strut in its frame perch. This type of lift is created by actually lowering the strut. the problem with this is, once your suspension fully extends, it expands 2" or 2.5" farther then it was designed. This pins the upper control arm againts the coil spring, and makes it the limiter. This could shorten that ball joints life. Also, it puts the inner tie rod ends in a taxing position.

So if you have the TM kit installed as a pre-loader, I really would not worry, unless you are starting to have problems. I know of a few guys on here that have the pre-load TM setup, and they have yet to report a problem.

 

ok good to know guess ill keep it and get er installed soon I hope new shocks first ill just keep an eye on them

 

i drill the spindle!!!

 

dodetrucker75 what is exactly you front suspension lift???

 

canadian dakota wanna take a pic of ur tm kit i have one and it doesnt look like it will work on my truck looks like the holes wont line up thanks in advance.