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After 3 years building my rig, the before and after on my suspension is wild
I finally swapped out my old lift kit last weekend after running the same cheap rough country setup for like 3 years. The difference in how it handles on the trail is honestly night and day. My old setup had those basic coil spacers that sagged after about a year, so my front end was always sitting an inch lower than the back. I went with a full long arm kit from a smaller company out of Colorado, took me and a buddy about 12 hours to install it in my driveway. Now the articulation is way better and it actually flexes over rocks instead of just bouncing off them. Has anyone else made a big suspension change that totally transformed how their truck drives on the trail?
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olivia_murphy2mo ago
Honestly I gotta say "long arm kit is a game changer" is true but like not exactly the full story here. A long arm kit is definitely a solid upgrade over cheap coil spacers but it really depends on what kind of trails you're hitting. If you're doing mostly moderate stuff and not rock crawling hard, a decent mid arm or even a quality short arm setup with proper geometry brackets can give you 90% of the same flex for less money and way less install time. The real game changer is just getting rid of those sagging spacers and having proper springs and shocks that actually match your rig's weight. I ran short arms with adjustable control arms on my old Jeep for years and it flexed plenty for Colorado mountain trails, only switched to long arms when I started doing harder lines where I was lifting tires constantly. Just saying the kit isn't always what makes the biggest difference, it's matching the parts to how you actually wheel.
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