Another extremely satisifed Hotchkis customer here

 

There is one here too!

 

Kenny brings up a good point. The Hotchkis kit is more "performance" oriented. Your ride will feel even stiffer with those 22's assuming you'll be running a very low profile.

 

I will be running a 285/35/22 tire. Thanks for the replys think I'll try the hotch. kit. I hope I like it

 

When i say stiff I mean like poor quality shitty stiff. I dorve a 98 Firebird for awhile and felt its sporty stiff suspension. I liked that, my truck's suspension is much more stiff than that. Instead of just bottoming out and "feeling" the bumps on the road in that Bird, its like the shocks travel back and forth too many times, making everything in the cab bounce repeatadly. Not a good kind of stiff. The hotchkis should be the best choice overall.

 

One more here.

 

So everyone who has the Hotchkis stuff do you have springs and then the leaf springs for the back? If you have a different setup from hotchkis please post.
I am really leaning toward the Hotchkis stuff. It sounds like the springs in the front and the leaf springs in the back are the way to go.
Thanks for all the replies

 

Yup. The Hotchkis kit contains only springs. Two coils for the front and two leaf packs for the rear. You replace your stock springs with the new springs that you get in the Hotchkis kit.

 

Mine is stiff sporty like with the Hotchkis, but on the freeway, it is shitty stiff bounce all over the place. It is cause I got a standard cab, stepside bed. The bed weights about 150lbs lighter than the fleetside bed, but after taking my rear bumper off and sparetire due to the roll pan, my rear started bouncing all over the place. I put a 150 television in my bed about a month ago, and then it rode pretty damn nice.

So if you have a stepside it will be harsher. I plan on adding a hard cover and a fullsize spare mounted in the bed, this will add about 120 to 130lbs back into the bed, and then I should have a decent ride, but money has been slow coming in, and I don't know when I can afford it! So otherwise I like the Hotchkis.

My friend has a DJM 2/4 with front coils, and hanger and shackle, his rides like a caddy, and handles a little better than stock.

If I could do it again, I would go with the DJM kit, then I would add the matched Hotchkis swaybar kit.

This would give real nice ride with much improved handling. I installed my Swaybar kit one week after putting the drop on my truck, and by far the thing that really improved my handling was the swaybar kit.

 

Thank you for the reply. Does your friends DJMstuff squeak at all. What level kit does he have.