Could some one let me know were to puchase leveling kits. I found one place that offers steel or poly.












2004.5 SRW 3500 Black crew cab

 

found mine on Ebay. I went with the steel. Much stronger. I did not like the look of my truck level so i added 1.5" blocks in the rear.

 

when you put the blocks in did you also have to change to new u bolts????
what were the lenght of them if you did?????
where did you get the blocks from??????
i am thinking i like this idea better then just the leveling kit that i have now.
when i tow, it should sit better too.

 

I think thier from superlift. The U bolts come with the blocks. Make sure and get steel bocks not aluminum.

 

Superlift has replacement leveling springs. MSRP on those is $270 I think. I did see some gnarly steel spacers on ebay for $89.00 + shipping (made in SLC). KORE also has a leveling kit (new springs and Bilsteins) for $500.00.

 

I'm not a big fan of spacers of any type! I'd lift with springs!

Remember that even a 2" spring lift will throw out your caster and camber angles.
What they do'nt tell you is you'll also have to get adjustable ball joints to correct this problem. Approx $350.00 if I remember correctly.

PAY ATTENTION HERE!!

IF YOU DO NOT CHANGE TO THE ADJUSTABLE BALL JOINT AND CORRECT THE CASTER/ CAMBER ANGLES YOU WILL HAVE THE INFAMOUS DEATH WOBBLE!!! Especially running larger tires!

I've been there done that and bought the t-shirt 2x before I found this out!!

 

never heard of these adjustable ball joints???
where would one get these , as when mine go i would look into these????
anyway, got the castor back to norm with the alinment, and so far everything is back to norm.

 

I've never heard of an adjustable ball joint either. A competent alignment tech should be able to adjust the camber and caster w/o any different items?

 

you do not need the adjustable ball joints, all you have to do is get adjustable lower control arms...any rock crawling shop will know how to get you some.

 

i have never heard of adjustable ball joints either on a solid front axle, i can see it with IFS, but the ball joints don't change when lifting the solid front axle truck.

 

got my leveling kit from jackit, I think www.jackit.com - came in a kit with new fromt shocks and good price. It is a b?"&% to get everything hooked back up but, once you do get front end aligned and you should be fine - No problems for 65,000 miles - I do agree that if you want to do it right you should probably get the adjustable control arms which leads me to this - I love my leveling kit and the price was right but, now I wish I just bit the bullet and put the 4 inch lift kit on it with the longer, correct length control arms and got it over with
Have fun, PS I run 33's and although not huge tires I can say no problems with them and no death wobble

 

Moog manufactures the the adjustable ball joints. They are concentric adjustable and mount on top of the steering knuckle just as the stockers do.

And yes adjustable control arms will also fix this problem but at what cost?

Any alignment shop will tell you that there is no way to adjust caster/camber on your stock front axel. The trick is to find one who knows which parts are needed to fix the problem.

Funny how the mfg of the leveling kits at rock bottom prices fail to mention that it will cost another $3-400.00 to set the front end up correctly to avoid this problem.

From the looks of the tires on my 05 3500 4x4 I'm already there.

 

I too have the spacer kit & wish I would have bought the 4 inch kit. I have 65 thousand miles and have had the death wobble. that was fixed when I replaced shocks. Now my front end is clanking and making lots of noise. I wish I would have kept it stock.

 

you can get lower arms for 119 for the pair.

 

Caster is easily adjusted on the truck...look at the axle side of the lower control arm. You will see a cam...that adjusts the CASTER!

Camber adjustments require ball joints.

Kore spends more time looking at the suspension than Dodge does on these trucks...

Kent may disagree on the method of gaining 2-3" (spacer versus spring), but he will agree that the alignment can be adjusted back within spec.