Originally Posted by ThumperMX113

What do you mean? Rize only sells to the distributors on their website.

Originally Posted by Josiah

I'm so tired of the animosity/rivalry between the kits...most of these people arguing are street queens anyway and the rest have no idea of what their kit consists of firsthand (Ayresusn and a few others do on the other hand). There is not going to be a huge difference in kits, especially when the components are so ****ing identical (RCD and Fabtech are so similar it's laughable to think they didn't have a demo of one another during design/production). Rize is probably the best kit out for the F-150 in terms of design goals, they focus on a weaklink in our steering racks and they have a 6" as well. You will not notice much of a difference in the kits other than ride height, steering (depending on tierod mount on knuckle) and ride, which is based on supplied shocks. If you're not going to push the limits there is nothing to be concerned about, the ride with the bilsteins will be better than the rear Fabtech supplied shocks, but the Dirt Logic (swayaway) coilovers are quite nice on the other hand...no comparison to King's which can go on either kit. To answer your question, you won't notice a difference other than ride. The drop bracketry, subframes, etc are identical other than the knuckles and a few other small items. I would never lift an F150 again, ever with the intentions I have. It's funny I've broke down so often compared to the guys who claim they offroad to the point of abuse...give me a break. I love my F150 but it just can't hold up to the abuse as some call it, might start work on an older pickup to pull in tow to the OHV parks. The Fabtech was great until the steering rack snapped, and the Rize took care of that. What more do you want...other than coilovers. I'd go with Rize if I was dumb enough to lift this 150 again, it's a tough truck but was not meant to take what the avid wheeler intends to throw at it. You can certainly lift this truck and it will do fine but any serious wheeling and you'd better throw in the towel. I'm stressed right now so forgive my angry insertions but everyone likes to throw their opinion out there as the gospel, whom most have no idea what they're talking about. Some do but just read about their lift experience if you smell bs.

Originally Posted by ML504

I have the 8" Rize kit (did the install myself). The kit drops the steering system down so that the point at which the tie rod ends connect to the Rize knuckel is at the same position it would be on the stock knuckel with no lift. I believe the other kits you are looking at raise the point on the knuckel upwards thus putting the steering in more of a bind (not 100% positive on that, but that would be my guess after talking to others).

I can say that going from stock trim to lifted 8" and 35" tires, I cannot tell a difference in the way the truck steers at all. It is almost effortlessly.

Hope this helps some, and yes last I checked the 6" and 8" Rize were the same price.

Originally Posted by Silver05

If you lived in the Houston area you could have my fabtech kit.