I ordered the Fox 2.0 coils upfront just waiting for them to come in. Allegedly sometime this month. I also got 1.5” Icon springs w/ Icon shocks in the rear. Non ORP on a 22 Ram QC. I thought about doing UCA’s and a 1/2” spacer up front on top of the Fox’s. I want a little rake cause I tow and use the bed, but not a ton. Do you like that set up? I could also just crank the preload a bit. I over analyze the crap out of all this. Haha
I don’t think you’re over analyzing – that’s exactly what I did when I came to my conclusions. Now that I’ve put about 1000 or so miles on this set up, I honestly think it’s under dampened for road use and a little spongy.
That being said, it rides better than my stock ORG suspension. I think there’s room for adjusting preload on the springs that will strike a nice balance between a bit firmer ride but still smooth on the road. I have already had to adjust the driver side preload higher than the passenger side to account for the extra weight of the ecodiesel’s components.
When I make more adjustments in a month or so, I will remove the tophat spacer and just add preload to the springs. It’s a 2:1 adjustment, so adjusting the preload collar by a 1/2” results in a 1” lift- that means you only need to adjust preload by 1/4” to make up the difference of the 1/2” tophat spacers.
The only kicker to all that is the coils are so tight that to make adjustments to the quick collar you need a floor press with a bearing splitter adapter, or a modified wall mounted strut compressor. That means you have to pull the coilovers each time you want to make an adjustment. Kind of a pita.
Edit: I guess there is a third option for adjustments. If a jack was placed under the lower control arm with slight pressure and a pair of modified coil spring compressors were used, I could probably achieve what I need without removing the coilover. I would just have to keep my hands away from things and wear a good face shield. While pretty sketchy, the advantage to this is that if something slips, nothing is flying apart. The coil spring compressors would get bound up in the spring, and the coilover is bolted in. The more I think about that, the more it seems like I should try it.