Looking at 1500's-Many questions.

[RJL1]

I'm looking for a newer 1500, 17-19 classic, 4x4, crew cab, 6.4 bed and the Hemi. I think I want an SLT, seems you get alot of truck for the money. I also want a 4" lift and am looking for suggestions in this area. I had a 2012 Power Wagon that drove awesome on the road, smooth as a caddy and nice off road too. I would like a lift that comes close to that ride. I don't want to say money is no object, but at this stage of my life I don't mind paying for what I want.

I'm also not against installing it myself, if it's reasonable. I've installed 3 lifts in the last few years. On my 1500 I just put spacers on the front, add a leafs and a blocks in the rear. I didn't take into account that I needed to drop the transfer case and had a pretty good shimmy at take off, until that was fixed.

I put a Rancho 2" sport lift on our 2010 Jeep JKU Rubicon along with geometry brackets and their 9000 series shocks last spring and put new Eibach shocks/struts on the front along with add a leafs in the back of my sons tacoma last fall. I'll consider lifting the truck I eventually buy but if it's too much I'll just get it done.

The trucks I've been looking at all have 3:21 gearing. I'd imagine with 35's thats gonna need to be upgraded, but to what? It will mostly be driven on road.

Our Jeep has 4:10's with 285/75r17's and is at it's limit, but has the crappy 3.8 motor with just a tad over 200 HP. My 1500 had the 360 and 3:55's and was fine with 35's.

Lots of questions, just wanted some honest opinions on gearing, lift, and install.

Thank you for any help

Bob

 

[ram1500rsm]

Don't get a truck with 3.21's if you're thinking to add big tires to it. It works the same as it would in your Jeep the main difference regaring your Jeep is 3 times cheaper and easier. No easy option to regear a 4th gen RAM 1500 unless you had a 2011 or older truck. if you're not doing this yourself you'll be paying a shop to do it and it'll be expensive.
https://www.ramforum.com/threads/regearing-3-92-to-4-56-2014-ram1500-4wd.92619/
his labor was cheap, it might not be that cheap for most especially if the shop needs to thinker where to cut if they never done the job before.

I paid $1k to regear my JKU from 3.21 to 4.56's OTD and it was done in my garage to top it off with G2 gears. No way i'm paying $4k to regear a truck that doesn't even have locker options. This is the biggest complaint i have about our 4th gen 1500 platform. Get a truck with 3.92's from the factory, when mated with the 8 speed trans and the Hemi you'll have plenty to run 35's and it will run decently with 37's.

 

[RJL1]

Thanks for the heads up regarding gearing. That's out of my wheel house. No way will I attempt to re-gear myself. Didn't realize it was much different than the Jeep. I had similar quotes to re-gear it to 4:56-4:88's, about a grand. I was thinking of putting a 3.5 AEV lift on the JKUR with 35 or 37"s, but came to my senses and just put the Rancho on in a weekend in my driveway.