Ole Buck
Senior Member
Back in June I replaced my tapered three-inch lift block that came with my Rough Country 5-inch lift for a one-inch block and a two inch add-a-leaf due to axel wrap and the fact that I hate lift blocks. This was a great upgrade, but it still was not as solid as I wanted plus my truck is still a little nose high from the additional two-inch keys in the torsion bars. I ordered two new Skyjacker 5 inch Softride springs two weeks ago and finally got around to putting them in yesterday. Got everything laid out, the truck raised up and removed and the older springs removed. Things were flowing perfectly, to perfect. My main concern was running out of lift height on my floor jack. When you have a lift already on and you are running 37-inch tires sometimes lifting the truck becomes an issue especially in your garage. My solution, let the air out of the rear tires. I gained an extra 7 inches of floor jack lift by doing this. Anyway, I got to the drivers side and was picking up my new spring pack when I noticed that the brackets that clamp the springs together were in different locations than the other side. Further inspection revealed several discrepancies and then i realized that they had shipped me two different springs. The one for my Ram that is correct is DR250S. The other spring pack (after calling Skyjacker and giving them the part number) was for a Chevy Silverado. So now my truck is sitting up on jacks with one set of leaf springs while I wait on the correct set to arrive and Fed Ex to pick up the wrong ones. I bought the set from American Trucks, and they did make it right on their end. The guys at Skyjacker were also very helpful. I was not going to do a write up and pics on this but now I am. I will take some this evening and upload them in the morning.