Rough Country Leveling Kit 2013 Dodge Ram

[beavermosh]

I purchased the Rough Country leveling kit for my 2013 Dodge Ram Big Horn 4x4 (with 500 miles) and figured I would share my installation with everybody.

http://www.roughcountry.com/suspensi...1500-ram_2.php

First off, I paid $130 for the kit which includes both front and rear spacers. There is no reason to use the rear spacers if your goal is to level the truck. I am not sure I understand why the rears are included in the leveling kit because if you were to install both it would be just as unlevel as the stock suspension. In fact, with only the fronts installed it is 0.5" lower in the front but much more reasonable than stock.

I have not yet, due to time constraints, gone to the tire shop to get my front suspension aligned. YOU MUST ALIGN THE SUSPENSION AFTER THIS INSTALLATION. The spacers cause significant positive camber that will unevenly wear on tires. It looks like the lower A-arm has an eccentric that will adjust the angle of the strut and in turn adjusting the positive camber back to 0 degrees. 4x4s are generally configured with 0 degrees of camber... truck lovers, correct me if I am wrong here.

I followed the installation instructions.pdf for the most part. The 2013 Dodge Ram has a 16mm sway bar nut which is different than the instructions, other than that its the same. However, when installing the extended strut I would highly recommend to unbolt the brake caliper because during re-installation the lower A-arm has to pivot even further downward putting strain on the brake line and the tire pressure line.

Link to tutorial detailing how to align the headlights after installation: http://www.ramforum.com/f40/aligning_headlights_2013_dodge_ram_after_leveling_lifting-31708/

Now for the fun part! Here is one picture from my installation (basically taken at random), before picture, after picture, and a badass gif of them both.





Camber eccentric adjustment


Before


After


Badass gif

 

[chuck]

Cool man. Thanks for posting the details...I'm sure others will find it very useful. Welcome to the forum. It looks like your truck look exactly the same as mine besides color! I also don't understand why they include the rear lift...seems very pointless to me.

 

[beavermosh]

Also, I just went to the alignment shop yesterday and I paid $80 to align back to manufacturing standards. Figured I would let you guys know how much I paid.

 

[crzywyteboi]

I am going to be doing this as well, I think I will install the rear lift though because it should still reduce the rake by about a half inch and give me a littel more height. Thanks for the post. It will help immesely when I go to do this next week. Have you heard of or do you know if you can run bilsteins in the front with this leveling kit? or would it mess up the angle on the cv axels?

 

[fastNugly]

Looks amazing man!
Going forward if you need anything further mod wise, hit me up and I can provide you forum discount

 

[beavermosh]

Link to tutorial detailing how to align the headlights after installation: http://www.ramforum.com/f40/aligning_headlights_2013_dodge_ram_after_leveling_lifting-31708/

 

[apepe0738]

I am curious if you had/have had any issues with the upper ball joints popping out? I have heard of this happening on the 2013+ trucks when installing a level kit, but then heard that it only affected later built models. Mine was built 5-13 but I'm still scared to do this and then have issues...

 

[blackexpress13]

5-13 is late mine was built in January and the ball joints popped


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[UneasyJmitchell]

I think the rear spacer will keep the truck "level" when towing.