Just purchased my new 2004 4x4 Lariat supercrew Saturday. Love the truck. I was just wondering I would rather go with a 2" lift kit on mine rather than a 2.5" lift. I was just wondering has any of yall installed a revtek 2" made with bullet alluminum or a 2"autospring made of steel which may start to speek or make noise. I was just wondering on which way I should go.

Thanks Shane

 

I went with the Cornfed Leveling kit which is also a solid billet aluminum design. Have not had a problem one with them but did get the front end aligned after installing it.

 

I installed the 2" revtek on mine with no problems. I've put about 4000 miles on since the install and everything is great. Make sure you pay the $40 extra to re-align after you are done (done want to screw up the toe or camber). It took about an hour or so to install.

 

For those of you who installed it yourselves, do you have to compress the springs? And how do you go about that? Do you just take it to the dealer?

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You could do that. I took my strut assembly to the tire store down the road from me and they were nice enough to let me use their wall mount spring compressor. I would strongly advise against using the cheep portable ones unless you want to see it explode or at least bend into a state where you will have to torch it to get it off of your spring.

 

Do not try using the Harbor Freight style compressors. They are pretty lame and will not survive. I installed my Daystar kit with some professional compressors. Heavy duty with the square form (acme I think) threads. They bent significantly, but did the job. I'd imagine the type we used would be typical for rental quality compressors.

Air tools are also highly recommended for the Daystar installation. I had access to them and in hindsight would not even attempt it without them.

 

Anybody have pictures of the autospring installed on their truck? This seems like the simplest install, but I've been looking at my 4x4 Screw, but can't see how/where this spacer would go in without having to re-compress the springs.

 

According to other memebers on this site that have installed the daystar package, they say that you DO have to recompress the springs.

 

I went with daystar

 

Hey Thorin, why wouldn't you attempt it without air tools? What if you had a big huge torque wrench? I don't have air tools, but i'm thinking about trying it. What do you think?

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I did it by hand with 4 Harbor freight type compressors and it took three hours from the time the wheel came off till it was back on. I started in with an impact but my air comp sucks and had to finish it by hand. Wasn't that bad other than a few bloody knuckles. The key was using 4 compressors. Just 2 was impossible. I had a 3/4 drive ratchet that was used.

 

I went to a local autoparts store and bought some spring compressors for $35. Works best to compress springs with an impact if you have one.

 

my 3/4" electric impact worked better than my air impact on some past jobs compressing springs, you'd be crazy to do it with hand tools, unless you have nothing but time. Anybody know does the Revtek and Cornfed mount on top of the top spring plate with the longer bolts or are they in the spring pack below the top plate which preloads the spring like part of the Daystar.

 

The cornfed is all in the spring pack. I liked it because it is solid aluminum and it can not over extend the CV's because it is all in the spring pack. It did ride a little stiffer for the first few miles but softened up now and did not sag. The pic above is with 13,000 miles on the leveling kit. The rear is starting to sag a little cause when it first went on, it sat totaly level and now the nose is 3/4" higher.

 

thanks sticker, nice truck