lower a arm angle, using 3500 or 35004x4 springs

[josephzielinski1]

i am curious ive seen a few pictures of lifted 2wd trucks, and noticed the bottom a arm has some angle on the lifted trucks, while my stock 1500 lower a arms are almost sitting level, has any one on here just used the spings off a different dodge ram such as a 3500 or a 4x4 truck, or even off of a 2nd gen 4x4 truck? pictures would be awsome if anyone has any

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

a friend of mine went with the 3 inch lift kit from rough country, which is just the springs and the shocks and the lift blocks in the rear. his lower control arms are at a bad angle and he cant stand it. so he is upgrading to the kit that i got, the 6inch lift kit, since it has a lower control arm drop bracket and allows my control arms to sit level like the factory suspension.

we both have 2wd trucks

dont know if that helps, but i would assume the 2500 and 3500 has taller springs, which can be related to the rough country shocks that we got... hope this helps!

 

[josephzielinski1]

helps some, i ask because i notice in the 2wd lifted thread seems like most of the guys with lift kits have their lower a arms sitting at an angle lower than stock

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

yeah that is very common with small lifts or leveling kits

 

[josephzielinski1]

here is a picture of something extream im talking about. its a chevy "donk" and it has extream a arm angle, with what looks like a homemade lift kit from some company that should be ashamed of their work. this picture is from another forum, the customer complained that when he turned his wheels leaned in

 

[josephzielinski1]

some more badly built suspension pictures

 

[josephzielinski1]

a company did a repair on it, im guessing building a new lift. here is the picture of the front end, i still think way too much angle for the a arms, the lower a arms are better than what they were, it looks horrible for the ball joints to me. this is why i was curious on just adding bigger springs and shocks, kind of a way to level the truck better vs to coil spacers

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

well one thing to keep in mind is from the looks of it.. almost all of those pictures were on lifts so the actual angle versed the angle on a lift is completely different. any suspension will do that since that is how it is supposed to travel

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

once the weight is added... itll be like a quarter of what you see there or even none that's exactly what my truck did while i was installing the lift before it was done and dropped the truck on the ground again.

 

[josephzielinski1]

thats true i suppose, i do think its kinda neat some of those lifted car guys, the auto shops that fabricate the lift kits