2004 shock extenders = JOKE!!

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jschreiber94

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I purchased a leveling kit off of Ebay that came with blocks, torsion keys, and shock extenders that supposed to increase ride quality after cranking the bars to leveled height. I installed everything but the blocks witch would have made my truck unleveled by two inches. after I took it for a ride after I realigned it everything felt great and looked perfect but once I raised it back in the air I was looking at my suspension and I noticed grease was shot all over my fender wells which I noticed my cv boots were tore apart by the shock extenders. so I highly recommend everyone to stay away from them and just buy taller shocks.
 

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Your cv joints were shot due to the increased angle by cranking the torosion bars and changing the angle more then then allow.

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I purchased a leveling kit off of Ebay that came with blocks, torsion keys, and shock extenders that supposed to increase ride quality after cranking the bars to leveled height. I installed everything but the blocks witch would have made my truck unleveled by two inches. after I took it for a ride after I realigned it everything felt great and looked perfect but once I raised it back in the air I was looking at my suspension and I noticed grease was shot all over my fender wells which I noticed my cv boots were tore apart by the shock extenders. so I highly recommend everyone to stay away from them and just buy taller shocks.

I think the best advice to take away from this is to not buy a "leveling kit" for a truck with torsion bars.
You can crank the stock keys far enough to level the truck out for free and not have any issues.
 

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I think the best advice to take away from this is to not buy a "leveling kit" for a truck with torsion bars.
You can crank the stock keys far enough to level the truck out for free and not have any issues.

I might add, even for a truck without torsion bars don't buy leveling kits off ebay ! lol
 

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I didnt buy the leveling kit but i did buy the shocks extenders and they worked flawlessly for about a year. So?? Idk oh i have an 03 1500, and now those same brackets are being used as light brackets to hold my 9" round 7" deep hids behind my grille

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