2014 ram air ride kit?

lilzilla2008 · Nov 20, 2015

Does anyone know if they make a full air ride kit for a 2014 ram? Im trying to see how to do this as im not all that familiar with doing a bagged truck from scratch. If anyone knows how to do the front and rear id appreciate that also. Does the shockwave's work good for something like this?

GardysGarage · Nov 22, 2015

I know Michigan Metal Works has a control arm kit for the front. which requires you to cut off all mounting points for the OEM arms and weld their brackets on. As for the rear, you would just need a 4 link kit and brackets.

06+ Dodge Ram 1500 Front Kit

lilzilla2008 · Nov 22, 2015

Awesome thanks! I pretty much decided to just send it to ekstensive to get done after its payed off. Ride tech makes a full set up but it doesn't fully lay out

GardysGarage · Nov 23, 2015

Yea, I was looking into the RideTech stuff too, but wasn't really impressed. Good luck with it!

armstrong87 · Nov 24, 2015

In for future pictures

R/T_Fire · Nov 25, 2015

GardysGarage said:
I know Michigan Metal Works has a control arm kit for the front. which requires you to cut off all mounting points for the OEM arms and weld their brackets on. As for the rear, you would just need a 4 link kit and brackets.

06+ Dodge Ram 1500 Front Kit

Thats a interesting product, I'm kind of curious on what exactly a Jeebus joint is. This is something I have been thinking about doing even without airbags to have a longer upper control arm to fix the camber issue

BlackSheep14 · Dec 3, 2015

There is a lot of work involved to get these to lay out so a kit won't do much good. Mine has over 200 hours of labor in to it for suspension work.

GardysGarage · Dec 3, 2015

R/T_Fire said:
Thats a interesting product, I'm kind of curious on what exactly a Jeebus joint is. This is something I have been thinking about doing even without airbags to have a longer upper control arm to fix the camber issue

From my understanding you can rebuild their joints too. If you search around, he has exploded views of the joints.

BlackSheep14 said:
There is a lot of work involved to get these to lay out so a kit won't do much good. Mine has over 200 hours of labor in to it for suspension work.

Lay frame or body? From what I have been reading they weren't too bad to lay frame.

BlackSheep14 · Dec 3, 2015

GardysGarage said:
From my understanding you can rebuild their joints too. If you search around, he has exploded views of the joints.

Lay frame or body? From what I have been reading they weren't too bad to lay frame.

Lay frame, body only sits like an inch above frame so it looks like it lays body. You can check out buld pics on here http://www.ramforum.com/f39/black_sheep-67546/

lilzilla2008 · Dec 6, 2015

Ahhh I saw your truck up for sale, such a clean looking ride. Who did the suspension on yours blacksheep?

BlackSheep14 · Dec 6, 2015

lilzilla2008 said:
Ahhh I saw your truck up for sale, such a clean looking ride. Who did the suspension on yours blacksheep?

Jimmys Rod n Customs in Edgewater, FL

lilzilla2008 · Dec 6, 2015

I was figuring around $7000-$8000 to get it to lay out, it does look like more work on these for sure than others ive had before bagged

BlackSheep14 · Dec 6, 2015

lilzilla2008 said:
I was figuring around $7000-$8000 to get it to lay out, it does look like more work on these for sure than others ive had before bagged

If you are doing the work yourself maybe 7-8k in materials and parts. I have more than that into mine in just labor.

lilzilla2008 · Dec 6, 2015

Do you have accuair on yours or what set up is it? 2 link 4 link?

BlackSheep14 · Dec 7, 2015

lilzilla2008 said:
Do you have accuair on yours or what set up is it? 2 link 4 link?

Accuair, parrallel 4 link with watts link. I have build pics on my original thread showing how the front and rear was done.

spblack · Dec 7, 2015

if your not trying to lay the body on the ground, I would go with ridetech. ive used their stuff before and its pretty good and simple bolt in applications. I was going to go that route on my truck but I need to pull a car hauler occasionally and decided against it. you can probably get a kit from them for under 4k, bags and airpod.

lilzilla2008 · Dec 8, 2015

Let me ask you this, how are the shockwaves? I read that they only lower the vehicle 3" over a 2/4 drop in the front. Do they make spindles to get the extra drop?

BlackSheep14 · Dec 8, 2015

lilzilla2008 said:
Let me ask you this, how are the shockwaves? I read that they only lower the vehicle 3" over a 2/4 drop in the front. Do they make spindles to get the extra drop?

They make drop spindles and I don't like shockwaves, not enough travel. I have factory spindles on mine.

lilzilla2008 · Dec 9, 2015

Thanks for the info! It's been very useful as has your build thread, nice work done to your truck. Ever found a buyer for it yet?

spblack · Dec 10, 2015

BlackSheep14 said:
They make drop spindles and I don't like shockwaves, not enough travel. I have factory spindles on mine.

Blacksheep is right. I only got about 5" of lift out of my shockwaves on my 59. It did save me fab time on trying to figure out where to install a shock and fabbing the control arms for other bags.

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