Help with lift kit

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I had a 6” rough country lift installed on my 2016 ram 1500 4x4, I chose the lifted struts they offer instead of the strut spacer, the truck sits 1”-2” lower in the front than the rear. I did some researching and couldn’t find anything with the lifted struts just the strut spacers. My question is has anyone installed a 1-2” leveling kit on top of these safety to make up for the rake? or would adjustable bilsteins work on these lifted struts? Thanks
 

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Let the truck settle. The suspension takes time to work it's cycles through. Drive it for a week "length of time if subjective."

See if it settles.
 
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I’ve had the lift installed for about 6-7 months now and still have the rake.
 
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Yup…..should have spent more money on a better kit.
 

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If you can find a 5” strut spacer and then just use leveling struts like rancho quick struts which are 2” or adjustable coilovers
 

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I had a 6” rough country lift installed on my 2016 ram 1500 4x4, I chose the lifted struts they offer instead of the strut spacer, the truck sits 1”-2” lower in the front than the rear. I did some researching and couldn’t find anything with the lifted struts just the strut spacers. My question is has anyone installed a 1-2” leveling kit on top of these safety to make up for the rake? or would adjustable bilsteins work on these lifted struts? Thanks
Is it 1” or 2” rake? It’s either one or the other. Being a 4th gen you will want a rake due to the hood being a mile higher than the bed. We don’t level rams as they don’t look good perfectly level. Also post of picture of your truck we can get you dialed in
 
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I’ll get a picture later on, it was 2” rake which I didn’t like at all, I spoke to the shop that did the lift and they swapped out the lifted struts for new one’s and it did bring it up 1”. That was about 2 weeks ago. I’ll measure again today to make sure it hasn’t dropped.
 
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Weather finally cleared up and was able to get pictures. As it sits it’s 1” lower in front than in rear
 
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Thanks! I’m in the process of adding a 2” motofab leveling kit up front, driver side is done. Bout to start on passenger side. CV and top ball joint angles don’t look bad at all. If it does end up nose high I can air up the rear airlift bags or just remove the leveling kit.
 
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