Hey guys what if I was to buy the 1.5" front spacer on this page and the 2.5" rear? Considering our different shocks, wouldn't this level the truck with a slight lift? Anybody see a problem with this?

What about using the billstein shocks as well at full height with some spacers to get the same effect but a higher lift? Is three inches doable without swapping out other parts?

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Your rear should already be higher than your front. So if you put a taller rear spacer in than what you put in the front, you will make your truck more raked, not level.

Your TRX shocks are 3/4" longer than the rest of ours.

I haven't measured my truck yet. But, with the Bilsteins on and set for max lift (2.8"), and a 1.5" TGC spacer in the rear, it looks level to casual inspection.

I don't know if the stock rear shocks are good for use with a spacer in the rear. But I do know that the Bilstein 5100 rears specifically list that they are good to use with up to a 1" spacer in the rear. I called the Bilstein office out in CA and talked to a support rep and he said that they would be fine with a 1.5" spacer. I don't know if they are good to use with a 2" spacer. If I had it to do over again, I would probably check on that and use a 2" spacer, if I could. I'd rather have the back a little higher when unloaded. It looks (again, I haven't measured yet) like hooking up my trailer squats the back just enough to be very slightly below level. If I had gone with a 2" in the back, it looks like it might sit level with the trailer. Don't know. That's with the trailer empty. Once I load a few bikes in, it might be saggy in the rear even with a 2" spacer.

I'll post before/after measurements and better pictures (also before/after) asap.

 

BILSTEIN 5100 link
Increase overall wheel travel, maintain full stock suspension up-travel, prevent component damage from over-extension. Designed to optimize available suspension travel, .5” longer than OE shocks. Lifetime warranty, less than $200 shipped. Matched rears available (F813).
Snap ring grooves on shock body allow 5 settings: stock - TRX .7" - 1.4" - 2.1" - 2.8"
mounting instructions

 

I don't think any reputable shop would install a 3 inch spacer kit on your truck. The steering angles will all be terrible, and it would drive like crap. If it were easy to do and it worked, everyone would be doing it and selling them. You can fit 35's with around 2 inches of lift, the extra inch isn't going to do much good, so you might as well skip it and all the headaches that will go with it.

If you put 2.5" of rear spacer in - your rear pinion will dive down a lot if you ever have to 'get into it' in reverse (such as pulling a trailer and backing up, or deep snow / mud / sand, etc.). So you'll have to do some sort of arm relocation in the rear if you want to put that much spacer in. You'll need longer shocks too, then you'll need longer sway bar links and that's about it.

 

I'm not asking about a 3" spacer. I'm asking about adjustable billsteins that can give you as much as 2.8" Can you use these to raise/level the truck without having to do anything else to the truck?

 

Not a 3", but it sure sounds like you're asking about a 2.5" here:

same difference.

With a TRX, I don't think there's any good, cheap way to raise the front 3". The Bilsteins will let you add 2.1" to the stock TRX height. And you'll need to add the 1.5" spacers in the rear, and possibly the Bilstein rear shocks, to get it level.

I've read some places that the Bilsteins are 0.5" longer than stock. Others say 0.75". Regardless, it seems as though Bilstein has designed these shocks to give you the maximum lift you can get safely without starting to replace expensive parts of the front suspension (in order to prevent over-extension).

OTOH, if you're never going to drive the truck in a way that would fully extend the front suspension (i.e. going off jumps or over whoop-de-doos or hitting really deep potholes hard), then you would probably be fine with doing what a lot of guys on this and other forums are doing. I.e. just put a strut extension spacer on top of the front shocks and a spacer on top of the rear coils, and be done.

 

Yeah the only problem with that is that it seems that there aren't any good ones out there for the TRX4 because of the difference in shock length.

 

You can get 1.5" front spacers from TGC. They may not have them listed on their website yet, but they are making them. With your shock being .75 longer than the rest of ours, that 1.5" front would be like putting a 2.25" on a non-TRX.

Have you actually measured to see what your current front and rear ride heights are, to see how much you actually need to raise the front to level the truck?

 

To be honest the truck is pretty close to level.... I'm just looking for a cheap way to lift as much as possible, safely and to keep it level.