Duramax Suspension

[AlisoBob]

My truck sits like a "Stink-Bug", and dosent ride like Iwant, so I made some changes.... Heres where I got some shocks... good price and service...
http://www.norcaltruck.com/shop/product ... 209deb8f17

Bilstein [BE5-D146-H0 & BE5-D147-H0]
So, I installed the shocks, and a 2" drop shackle kit in the rear...
( Ground Force Part # 91143 )

Nice mod, Truck sits level without cranking up the front "A" arms and topping out the suspension.

Truck rides way better, but to be fair I found that I had a dead shock at the R/R location, no damping what-so-ever.

[Joshwfl]

Sweet, that's a nice price too

[dannygraves]

dude, you LOWERED it???
but its torsion bar... so easy to lift the front for leveling.
those are some nice shocks

[Exnav]

I cranked the bars on my 04' and then it really rode like shit.

[AlisoBob]

dude, you LOWERED it???
but its torsion bar... so easy to lift the front for leveling.
those are some nice shocks

The front suspension needs to sit at mid -stroke to work. If its topped out, you have effectivly eliminated all rebound.

You lower the rear....

[dannygraves]

I did a 2 1/2" front lift on my f-150 to clear the 33's and didn't have any problems, of coarse, that truck uses a macfearson strut and I just had to put a spacer on top of it. the ball joints could still go all the way down, so I guess it did'nt really have a negative effect.

[robertg]

I cranked up the torsion bars on mine and the shocks topped out before the suspension did. I was going to get the Bilstein's but I cheaped out and made my own shock extenders. I can stick my fingers between the the upper control arm and the bump stop, so it's not topped out.

The ride is still OK, but I don't off road at all. If I was going to do some off roading, I would buy Cognito upper control arms, and the Bilstein shocks.

[robertg]

This is how it sits.

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[AlisoBob]

I cranked up the torsion bars on mine and the shocks topped out before the suspension did.

I was surprized when I took the OEM shocks off, the "A" arms dropped another 1.5" or so....

Friggin GM....



The shock part numbers I listed correct this situation.

[ISBB]

i would have gotten longer bilstiens for all four corners and turned up the torsions a bit.. its never going to ride like a car its a effin TRUCk for crying out loud

[100hp honda]

My truck sits like a "Stink-Bug"

all fullsize trucks are like that. because they assume you will have heavy loads in the bed.....aparently your using it to fetch groceries ?

[AlisoBob]

[aparently your using it to fetch groceries ?

Naaaa... I'm picking up your paycheck.

[teemtrubble]

And Brits wife

[dannygraves]