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But you can put the top-hat on anyway you want, I don't think they have any angle to them and they don't have any orientation marks. I'll mic them when I get home (uninstalled), but I know they are machined parallel. There are three studs, and you can orient the top-hat three different ways.
I think there's enough "play" in the single mount point of the piston in the top plate to allow for a slight change in angle - in theory, as the normal suspension articulates up and down, there will be movement and angle changes.
Hmm! I'll have a look when I get home - I have the motofab 2.5 and daystar 2" sitting on my bench. Visually they looked equidistant.
I do have them, but only the shocks and springs - it's not fully assembled, so I wouldn't be able to do that test. My truck is finally in-transit, and when I pull it apart I plan to check a bunch of things out!
Perhaps you are referring to the stock shock top mount having an angle, not the aftermarket top-hat spacer? I think I understand what you are saying now. I thought you were referring to the aftermarket part having an angle.
Curious, do you have the "cant" though? How close is the boot to the shock body on the inside side?
Cool. Yeah, the Daystar is a 2" lift, regardless of what some things say - they've corrected it in some of their documentation but not all - even the box says 2.5" on the sticker, but the instructions say the correct 2". I just got done putting the rear 1" coil spacer on, and tomorrow the front daystars are going on (like yours).
Yes - 1" factory + 2" Daystar = 3" over "normal" height, so UCAs are highly recommended.
Agreed. Anything over 2" over a stock truck I would make sure I had new control arms. I put the Readylift kit with control arms on mine just for peace of mind, and it really only raises it a little over 1.5". I will soon be going to an offroad spring in the front and the Daystar kit on top of it.
I noticed this rubbing on my struts with the paint being worn off so I checked around. Everyone I know who has had the lift or level accomplished by adding a top hat spacer has this rub. The way it was explained to me is, It seems to be because the EOM strut top has a designed angle built in to keep a solid contact surface with the strut housing. When you rotate the strut to allow for the new bolt alignments from most strut spacers the angle is reversed thus creating a bind. This shows up on the boot rubbing the strut and the fact that even though the bolts receive the proper torque, the spacer does not produce equal pressure on the strut housing. This is why some of the cheaper lifts and levels crack even before, or soon after the truck is taken off the lift.
