I'm searching on here about anyone with experience with the PRG 1.5 x 1 levelling kit and can't find anything.
I'm looking for a bit of lift, closer to being levelled, however I'd like to hear opinions on the possibility of CB contacts and any other potential issues. From what I read 2'' and under should not be an issue.
I'm also not looking to fit a 33'' for the moment and will not be wheeling anything extreme.
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I seriously doubt coil bucket contact would be much of an issue for you with a 1.5" spacer. Even when I had 2.5" spacers, CB contact only ever occurred on speed bumps and off road. Don't forget that UCA bump stops are a cheap and easy solution.
Have you considered the adjustable Bilstein shocks as an alternative to spacers?
ZoomZoom are you really that stupid? I know you're just trying to get a reaction out of people but I didn't realize that you wouldn't read a post before putting one of your bull**** comment on it.
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I'm searching on here about anyone with experience with the PRG 1.5 x 1 levelling kit and can't find anything.
ZoomZoom are you a frustrated B series pickup owner by any chance?
JeniorNV I considered the Bilstein but since I want so little lift I thought maybe it really wouldn't matter? I figure going with the struts a slight bit more money and more work to install.
What would be the great advantage of struts?
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Last edited by Beneque; 12-06-2012 at 12:50 PM.
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The advantages of a replacement strut is better ride than stock, when using the bilstein 5100 shocks, along with not throwing off the suspension geometry by using a spacer.
The advantages of a replacement strut is better ride than stock, when using the bilstein 5100 shocks, along with not throwing off the suspension geometry by using a spacer.
It depends. The 1.5" spacer will ride like stock, and the Bilstein set on 1.5" will be a bit stiffer. Whether that is "better" or not is determined by the driver.
As far as geometry, nothing is necessarily thrown off with the spacer. a 1.5" lift is a 1.5" lift. Your control arms and CV axles are at the same angle no matter how you do it. The main difference is that full droop before the spacer was most likely when the shock topped out, and now with the spacer full droop will be when the upper control arm hits the coil bucket. Some DIY bumpstops will remedy that for the most part, and I would recommend them either way the OP goes. Chances are you'll probably never even know that 1.5" spacer is in there unless you like to haul butt over speedbumps, drive off of curbs, or jump the front end off the ground.
The 5100 shock does gain you the height adjustability and makes for a good puzzle-piece in putting together a lift with options should you want to go a little higher in the future.
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As far as geometry, nothing is necessarily thrown off with the spacer. a 1.5" lift is a 1.5" lift. Your control arms and CV axles are at the same angle no matter how you do it.
How do you figure the angles will be the same?
PRG says the CVs can take up to a 3in lift. If the angles were the same why would they make this distinction. Also what would be the point of a drop bracket kit?
While the angle probably isn't changed much with the 1.5 lift... I believe it is changed a bit.
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I'm not saying that a 1.5" lift is the same as no lift. I'm saying a 1.5" lift is the same no matter how you do it (coil, spacer, or shock), in terms of angles.
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I'm not saying that a 1.5" lift is the same as no lift. I'm saying a 1.5" lift is the same no matter how you do it (coil, spacer, or shock), in terms of angles.
Gotcha, I agree now lol.
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