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35” tires will fit without a lift. 4.5” lift is pretty high if you really off road. That really moves your center of gravity. 2” lift with the right offset, will allow 37” tires to fit.
Even though Facebook experts will throw a fit if you mention spring spacers on a PW, I'm sure there are a lot on the road with them. Several years ago there was a guy with a popular YouTube channel who ran a PW with spacers on the front and 37's for a few years and regularly pulled trailers (it wasn't a PW specific channel, but the truck was shown a lot) and he never mentioned any issues. To be honest I don't see how the typical 1.5"-2" front coil spacers would be any different on a PW versus any of the other thousands of Ram 2500's with spacers running around.
A 4.5" lift on these trucks really isn't that tall nor will cause any major issues with the center of gravity. I've been into trailriding and rockcrawling for 20 years and ran a fullsize K5 Blazer that had a 4" lift and 40" tires that was considered a really low lift 10 years ago. Keep in mind that people were putting 12" lifts on fullsize trucks to handle that size tires and where this whole too much lift and high center gravity originates from. Used to be a guy showed up with a 12" and everybody talked about how it was too tall and would tip over and a 4" lift was really short. Now you have the inverse "big fish story" going on where people say a 4" lift is too tall.
Fo me, the shortest lift to accommodate the tire size I want. Not an inch taller. I clear the garage by 1/2 inch on my 35s.
When i bought my ‘16 power wagon laramie new 7 years ago i quickly slapped a 1.5” leveling spacer on the front to get the truck leveled before i finally figured out which leveling springs i wanted to go with. Well, 72k miles later im still running the stock coils and shocks with the spacer lol. It has worked well for me with absolutely no issues. And i flog the truck every summer in the sand dunes and have had oodles of bottoming out fun. But crazy jerry is right, i have absolutely nonissues getting my groceries either.
But the thing is, unless you are running 38’s or bigger and are scared to do a little trimming, anything over a few inches on a power wagon is not needed. Unless you are just looking for that super tall truck look (not knocking…to each their own). And, most 6” kits for a 3/4 ton ram (or 4.5” kits for a power wagon) come with transfer case indexing rings to clock the case because the output is too high for the factory driveline. No thanks.
Agreed!
ATM and drive throughs are already tough. That truck in the pic is not an easy daily for me.
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I won't argue with either of the above. Personally run 1.5" Thuren front coils on 37x13.50R17's and it took quite a bit of metal cutting on the inside of the fenders to reasonably clear, but can still rub lightly when off-road with the swaybar unhooked. I run 40's with a 4" lift on my off-road truck that could only fit 32" tires stock. That truck has major fender trimming to get those tires to fit, so I'm well versed on low lifts to fit big tires. Again, only saying that 4.5" of lift on a 2500 Ram isn't exactly huge compared to what people were doing not too long ago.
