Who can shed light on balancing old worn out lift with a few new parts?

2000 4x4 V8 suicide crew cab. I have a 4” far rear spacer. Front wheel well is 2” lower than the rear distance. Can I put stock struts and 2” spacer on the light racing, RPS upper control arm?

 

Can you measure from the center of your wheel hub to the lip of your fender on front and rear? Also can you get a better picture of your spring and shock up front?

Trying to gauge how high your truck is and what is providing lift if anything. From there we will hurl a lot of opinions and ideas your way.

 

Ok. I got a few pics to help explain.

 

Better view

 

Rear mount

 

Are the front coil over shocks blown? If they are not, and they aren't siezed/frozen, you could possibly adjust them up.

 

I want new shocks n raise up 2” in front. so I’m thinking a 1” spacer added up front raises two inches they say in the mechanics of spacers.

 

Thanks for that. I'm going to average the left vs right height and say you are about 1" higher than stock up front. With 4wd I would not recommend going up more than 2" over stock, you'll start accelerating wear on CV joints beyond that.

Your rear seems to be maybe 3" over stock, if you have a 4" block there then your springs are fatigued. Depending what you want from your truck you could leave the rear alone and just focus on the front, or replace the shocks while in there, or replace the leaf springs and shocks completely.

Up front those look like old school Sway-A-Way 2" coilovers to me. With the 600# coils I don't think you can adjust them for more height, they look too compressed already.

They are rebuildable. You could have a shop rebuild them and verify the spring rate, maybe swap up to 650# coils or 700# if you have some heavy armor. I would not put a spacer on top of those.

If you just want to swap to new stuff I would consider a Bilstein 6112 set if you aren't doing too much off roading. They are digressively valved so they feel a little stiff on small bumps or washboard but they are comfortable on bigger impacts. Price won't break the bank either. You could grab some Bilstein 5150 for the rear to complete the package.

Here is a thread where you can get a comparison of other setups and ride height.
https://www.tundras.com/threads/how-big-is-yours-measure-up.46186/