Uca's?

[Jeff Donison]

Gonna do billstein 2.8 on my 17 sport. See alot of guys doin uca's as well. What should I go with?

 

[VelocityC6Z]

There are a ton of threads on this.
Let's start with what your end goals are with the truck, and what's your budget?

Are you planning to lift further than just setting the bilsteins to their max height?

Just curious, are you using spacers in the rear?

 

[Jeff Donison]

Ya level is as far as I wanna go. No budget. I do haul trailers frequently so ride quality is a must. And not sure on rear spacers yet. What are my options?

 

[kurek]

I'm sure any of the lift specific UCA's will be suitable, some people get the cheapie mevotechs because they're cheap.... but they only address the ball joint maximum range of motion they don't correct for misalignment.

My opinion, and experience is that if you're running the highest lift position on the Bilstein struts it will put your truck's alignment cams at the extreme end of their adjustment range and it may not be possible to get the truck perfectly aligned with stock, or stock replacement upper control arms.

The arms I went with are Readylift 67-1500 and they've been on there ~4 years now with no complaints. No experience with other lift UCA's.

 

[VelocityC6Z]

My honest opinion here would be to save your money, do 2.1" instead of 2.8". You can continue to run the factory uca's with 2.1" with absolutely no issue at all. With a slight rake with the rear at factory height.

If ride quality is a must, definitely don't go over 2.1". Honestly, I would go for one setting lower than the 2.1" if you haul, so you can keep a little more of a rake, and maintain some ride quality.

The money you would spend on uca's or rear spacers, I would get a hellwig rear sway bar, and some rear end lower control arms from
Clayton or core. Depending on what you're hauling, I woukd get an equalizer and some air bags to put in the rear springs...

HOWEVER, if you're really not concerned with price and really want to go with 2.8" up front and UCA's. I would get zone or jba uca's, then a set of super lift rear springs to keep your rake while towing and to increase the rear by 1", they state it's 2" of lift, but they settle. Then I would get a one inch rear spacer, the Carli rear drop bracket for the panhard bar so you're ride over bumps keeps the rear from swagging around. You will then want some zone extended sway bar end links for the rear. Just to keep the sway in the back under control with the right geometry while towing. If you're very particular like me lol... but, to keep it simple, I would go with what I first said above

 

[Jeff Donison]

Wow that's definately a ton of good info. Thanks alot I will do some research and shopping and hopefully it all comes together.