Suggestions for suspension color

chrisp2493 · Jun 15, 2017

Looking for ideas, I'm about to put the truck in the shop for a few weeks, pulling the engine and rebuilding it, body work and may as well freshen up the rusty looking suspension. Looking to recoat the control arms, torsion bars, cross members, etc...
Should I go dark red?

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ST-8 · Jun 15, 2017

If your pulling the motor out get them longtubes coated, them things won't last to long the way they are if you live up north.

chrisp2493 · Jun 15, 2017

ST-8 said:
If your pulling the motor out get them longtubes coated, them things won't last to long the way they are if you live up north.

Yeah I know. I tried the spray can of header paint, didn't last the winter

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usaf2006 · Jun 15, 2017

Purple!

BiGMERF · Jun 15, 2017

Dayum can't wait to see her finished What size spacers you have ?

chrisp2493 · Jun 15, 2017

BiGMERF said:
Dayum can't wait to see her finished What size spacers you have ?

1-3/4" boras. I'm pulling the engine, rebuilding it and doing a cam swap, also a lot of maintenance stuff

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R/T_Fire · Jun 15, 2017

Why not go with the color you painted the valve cover? It would go well with the black.. and take out all of the screws from the pocket flares and either paint them or have them anodized (cant remember if they are alum or stainless) , that color looks close to a dark red anodizing... and maybe paint the grill insert and color match the shell to the body color so it looks all one, Then do all the movable susp parts and sway bar the same color. and any alum parts on your rig, have them anodized the red or black

chrisp2493 · Jun 15, 2017

R/T_Fire said:
Why not go with the color you painted the valve cover? It would go well with the black.. and take out all of the screws from the pocket flares and either paint them or have them anodized (cant remember if they are alum or stainless) , that color looks close to a dark red anodizing... and maybe paint the grill insert and color match the shell to the body color so it looks all one, Then do all the movable susp parts and sway bar the same color. and any alum parts on your rig, have them anodized the red or black

I think I'll probably end up with red. I'm wondering if I can paint my boras red. Also I have the ugly blue and yellow bilsteins, wondering if those can be repainted also. This is gonna be fun but I'm afraid my truck will be in the shop for a month

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BiGMERF · Jun 15, 2017

chrisp2493 said:
1-3/4" boras. I'm pulling the engine, rebuilding it and doing a cam swap, also a lot of maintenance stuff

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thats the size i ordered...nice i get to see how far they will come out... what size tires? stock wheels right ?

R/T_Fire · Jun 15, 2017

anything can be painted with the proper prep, some materials will require different primers to get adheasion... but I see no problems with painting a alum bilstien shock.
Just remember the surface you are painting and research the proper coating for that material and you will be a ok

chrisp2493 · Jun 15, 2017

BiGMERF said:
thats the size i ordered...nice i get to see how far they will come out... what size tires? stock wheels right ?

Stock weeks from a 2014ish ram. So 20x8 rims with 275 wide tires and 33" tall. I have a set of nitto's going on soon. I have some more pics in my build thread of the spacers

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