Just an FYI drops shocks have about the same extension as stock with about a inch more stroke.

ie mcgaughys 1451 0-3" drop shock
9.5" Collapsed - 14.5" Extended

Nitogen Gas Shock (each) - McGaughys Part# 1451 - Mcgaughys-Suspension.com

 

As far as the coupons go... dont really have one but I ordered my parts through a company called matts clasic bowties and was able to save a bit of money...just find their website and send the sales email a message with the part numbers you need and they'll hook you up. Quite a bit cheaper than going through ridetech

 

How much drop did you get with the strong arms and coil overs?

 

Are you guys installing these without any kind of support for the bottom mount? And they hold no problem?

I'd be worried about those two bolts holding the weight of the whole front end. Am I just crazy?

 

Ya you're just crazy!

I've got just over 7,600 miles on these now, still holding up fine, no issues.

Ideally I would do Strong Arms like milesp07, but I'm too cheap right now.

 

Sorry I'm coilover challenged. What are strong arms? any pics of them?

 

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They are Ride Tech's upper and lower control arms designed for our trucks, usually used with their shockwave airbag setup.

Only issue for me is they are $650 for lowers and $450 for uppers.

 

Awesome. Thanks man

 

My front is about 3" lower than stock. I am running 16+ mcgaughys spindles which lower only 1" since I'm no longer using the ball joint spacer. The only downside to this is I had to machine a small amount of material off the back of the spindles to clear the ball joins in the lower ridetech strongarm.

I went with the strong arms mostly because I didn't want to trust my factory control arms to hold up to that much stress over the long run. I contemplated reinforcing my factory control arms(like they do on s10s and g-body cars) but finally decided just to trust Ridetechs engineering and spring for the strong arms. I know they are expensive damn are they nice. They also correct ball joint angles and are quite a bit lighter than stock. Everyone at the shop was thoroughly impressed with their quality. I highly recommend them to anyone wanting to run this setup.

After scaling my truck (4590 lbs, 2900# front) I was honestly more worried about the top stud mount failing than the lower control arms so I built stud to eyelet adapter that distributes the load over a 3" diameter disc rather than the stud mount coilovers. Im very confident that I will have no problems with the mount failing.

I know it's prob overbuilt but I just wanted to have the peace of mind that I won't ever have any front suspension failures in the future.

 

Do you have a picture of your part?