Installing Struts and ran into a major hiccup. Need some help

Oh you have the better kit with the replacement spindle! The earlier kit photo was incorrect.

With seeing that, you should be ok with your plans. The downtravel should be fine, the sway bar will limit that. Up travel is the question. Your bumpstop should be 4 inches lower in theory, so im guessing that will hit before the shock bottoms out?

the contact issue is trickier, perhaps bilstein 5100 would be better using the stock coil?

 

I have an idea.... Get a different smaller lift kit. Boom. Problems solved.

 

That lift is designed to use OEM height struts. Can you adjust the new ones so they're OEM height?

It has longer spindles and not the UBJ spacers. So when installed they took out the OEM spindles and put in the taller spindles from Tuff Country. There is a spacer on top of the OEM coilover. Which you should keep

 

May not be an issue once you remove the 4.5" spacer.

As it is your setup on the new coil is 6.5" (2" new strut + 4.5" spacer) which means if your contact is at 1" of movement downwards, your actually at 3" of droop.

Is the new coil that much larger in diameter?

Also is the spacer a straight cylinder (parallel faces that go between frame & strut) or is there an angle to the 4.5" spacer?

 

Sorry OP @Can Can but it looks like you're in a little bit of what I would call a "shituation".