Coilovers - changing springs to effect ride height.

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Remind me if you have a rear sway bar?

No rear and Is still run the front on/offroad.

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[Rkgzx9leftcoast]

Got to do a little more testing yesterday and going to stick it out with the 600lb fronts and 200lb rears.

For me the swap to 200lbs rear springs got me a solid 2 1/2" of drop after a week of settling. After cranking them back up to a total of 1 1/2" drop the ride got substantially better. Its like the pre load in the rear giving the rear more downward force near full extension. Was noticeably better through the whoops with the rear end feeling more planted when not pushing the limit. When you hit the rears limit it got sketchy instantly. Note that the point of becoming sketchy was at faster speeds than before, hence the instant bad harmonics are substantial. I did relocate my rear shocks up 2" years ago for slow speed crawling and these springs take me back into 5" up & 5" down travel.

The 600lb fronts seem to balance out the rears with similar downward force at full extension. I feel if I went to a lower spring rate I would have to crank the tension higher and have more force when the shock is completely extended. Right now it transitions from 3 wheels while crawling back down very softly and controlled. I have a lot of extra weight in the front and it clearly factors into this decision.

I have had mine on -Stock form for about 3 weeks now, the front doesnt feel that far off, the rears seem over sprung to me, a little jarring over speed bumps. I will see how they do off road and wait to change the rear springs. Mine wound up pretty level front to rear, I started a little more than minimum pre-load, and had to crank the front up to about 1-1/4 inch pre-load now.

Im at about 41" to the flares front and rear, 4 door 2.7 sasquatch, 37`s with spare on back, stock modular bumper up front, ford skids. It wasnt a lot of lift from my 6100`s with level kit on front on the lowest circlip.

Happy with them so far, the 6100`s were hammered and leaking after about 16K miles. ( that is in about 3 years)