Bought this vehicle used last weekend. 2019 Laramie. On purchase I was told it had 3.5 rough country lift, and it def rides significantly higher than stock. Crawled under yesterday to take a closer look at everything and for the lift of me can’t figure out what they really did. I don’t see after market shocks and can’t really identify that the UCA were actually replaced. And idea what’s cooking on this front end? Maybe I am just misidentifying things?
You have a Ready-lift leveling kit on your truck not Rough Country. Those are Ready-lift upper control arms. All Ready-lift 2" leveling kits come as spacers and upper arms only, no shocks.
Rough Country 2" leveling kits replace the front coilovers with upper arms as an option. Their 3.5" kits also provide rear shocks.
Your truck should drive and handle just fine with the 2" of lift in front. This is a common lift hight by many manufacturers and is used/abused regularly. Anytime you lift the front of an IFS truck with just a leveling kit keeping the arm pivots in the same location you are going to get a little bit of increased wear on components like CV shafts, tie rods, ball joints, etc.(you can see the changes in angles yourself) but this is expected and generally accepted provided you inspect and maintain them.
Remember your truck only has so much suspension down travel (about 4.5") so 2" is already used up now by the leveling kit.
Go enjoy your new ride you're good!
but wanted to chime in quick to say that's a sharp looking truck. Congrats on the purchase. Enjoy!
