And driving nice, too. I had my doubts the HD Ram could ever be a truly comfortable, smooth ride. Replace enough of the junk parts they come with from the factory and they can be. Many thanks to Don Thuren for making some absolutely terrific control arms. Took a full day to basically upgrade the entire suspension, except the rear springs. The only really hard part was dealing with the front axle after my floor jack decided to break:

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It's not too bad of a job at all. There's a couple tricks like cutting out the upper pass side arm bolt so you don't have to drop the exhaust to get that out. I did not need to unbolt the pitman due to an already installed drop pitman, but if you don't already have one, you'll probably want one of those too. Just unbolt the shocks, trac bar, and sway bar. Do the arms first, then get the nose high in the air with jackstands under the frame, lower the axle and the springs literally fall out.

I cannot believe the improvement over stock springs and pucks. Amazing. As you can see from the last pic, the front wheels are now centered in the wheel wells. Next up front end alignment, but it doesn't even seem to need it. Still waiting to find out if the interstate road-hopping is cured.

 

Oh yea. You would be amazed at how good a 3/4 ton or 1 ton truck can ride if you put some $$ into it! Truck looks great by the way, good job

 

Thanks, Matt. Got it lined up yesteday and as I suspected, only minor adjustment. Unfortunately the Interstate expansion joint hop is still there. It's better, but still there.

 

I dont think i have been in a 3rd Gen without it How big of a lift are those coils? Did you touch your track bar at all?

 

They are 3". Replaces 3" pucks. I measured them after getting them off. The PO had installed 3" pucks. I thought they looked pretty big for leveling pucks. The truck already had Don's adjustable track bar. And I had also previously a couple years ago not long after I got it put an additional 1.25" of rear spring block to keep just a tad forward rake in the stance - not striclty speaking "leveled."

I got this truck 3 years ago for a steal when it had only 23k miles on it for about a buck a mile because the front end was shot from the leveling pucks in only that many miles. That's why I preach against the leveling pucks. First thing I had to do to it was replace all the front end joints, trac bar, raise the rear a little and added a steering brace and drop pitman to make it driveable until I could finish the job.

 

Well she looks great! And I know how good it must ride with all that work done to it. Im sure it cost ya a little bit but well worth it in the long run considering you have upgraded, and taken care of EVERYTHING in the front end!

 

very nice