Ram 1500 6" to 4/3.5 lift

[Burnie]

Hey guys first post here, already gleaned some information.

I am buying a 2019 ram 1500 with a RC 6" lift, has the new longer struts and dual rate rear coils. I would like to go from the 6" 35" tire setup to a 3.5" or 4" with 33" tire. Young kids and functionality.

My question does anyone know how much lift everything adds in the front? Example: lift knuckle - 2.5", strut - 3", drop crossmember - 0.5".

I reached out to rough country but he wasn't much help. He said you need to get new rear coils and shorter struts from our 4" lift. But when asked for similar breakdown the question was avoided.

Current plan: Rebel/ORP 1" lift spring all around, Bilstein 5100 rear shocks, and the 5100 coilovers on the lowest setting. I believe with the knuckle, drop member, and 1 " spring this would give me 3.5-4" front and the rear about level. Thought this would give the smallest lift and good suspension travel, front end geometry, and pretty decent ride. Thoughts?


Also if anyone is interested in upgrading their 6" RC lift to struts and dual rate coils. I will be selling the front RC N3 setup and coils. Would be a cheap upgrade. Thinking $500 not sure yet. It has less than 20k on it.

 

[boogielander]

hmm took a risk of messing up my algorithm and went to RC website to check this for you.
the RC rep was no help because they don't make anything that you're asking for. their 3.5" kits are spacers and they don't have anything for 4"

unfortunately, there's nothing you can do to make it go that way. I'd skip one with a 6" kit installed and go with a stock truck, then put on some bilstein 5100s set it at 2.5" instead to fit 35" tires while retaining good ride and decent suspension travel if you haven't paid for it yet. installing 6" kits are path of no return.

 

[Burnie]

Understand, RC stated, when I reached out, to replace the rear coils, shocks, and struts with stock struts and spacers from their 4" lift (doesn't exist) so I assumed their 3.5" lift.

I'd rather not go spacers so I'm thinking I will try the Bilstein 5100 struts and try to get close to 4". The zone kit uses the lift knuckles, drop member, diff drop bracket, etc with strut spacers. My thought is it may be better than a RC 3.5", would be more like the Zone kit with Bilsteins being an upgrade over factory struts and spacers.

Honestly it will be a pain but the Bilsteins have the height adjust so I can get it together and check the height, CV angles, front drive shaft and make sure it all looks good. If not I can adjust the height again, hopefully get it right the first time!

It's a pretty good deal on the unit and I don't mind doing the work. I enjoy it on the side, building my 72 C10 at the moment. Going down though not up and making it a bit spicy.

 

[boogielander]

Understand, RC stated when I reached out to replace the rear coils, shocks, and struts with ones from their 4" lift (doesn't exist) so I assumed their 3.5" lift.

I'd rather not go spacers so I'm thinking I will try the Bilstein 5100 struts and try to get close to 4". The zone kit uses the lift knuckles, drop member, diff drop bracket, etc with strut spacers. My thought is it may be better than a RC 3.5", would be more like the Zone kit with Bilsteins being an upgrade over factory struts and spacers.

Honestly it will be a pain but the Bilsteins have the height adjust so I can get it together and check the height, CV angles, front drive shaft and make sure it all looks good. If not I can adjust the height again, hopefully get it right the first time!

It's a pretty good deal on the unit and I don't mind doing the work. I enjoy it on the side, building my 72 C10 at the moment. Going down though not up and making it a bit spicy.

when it comes to mixing parts from different manufactuers it's always a toss up, you'll need to do more measuring, testing, and calculating.
if you're ok with that then do it and let the board know how it goes lol

 

[Burnie]

Haha alright if I do I'll be sure to post some progress!

I was hoping to get a list of each component in the RC lift, it's purpose, and how much lift it adds.

From what I can tell the strut, knuckle, and maybe the drop member and the components in the front. Everything else is to fix drive line angles and steering linkage angles. I guess we will see!