NavyChief

I did the IHC kit and I’m not a fan. Pops and creaks all the time, bent plates, crap generic ball joints and grease fittings that won’t take grease. I’m headed to the Ridetech kit it’s just irritating to drop 1500 and have issues and then drop over $3k on another kit.

daemon9

That must've been the Ride Quality kit, eh? I'm glad to have my OEM LCAs back in. Hopefully these IHC camber-adjustable UCAs don't make any noise.

1STtimer

Ultimately I am glad that I went the most expensive route first. You really do get what you pay for these days.

After reading all of @UNBROKEN troubles, I thought there had to be a better way. There is, but it costs you money instead of all the time that he put he in (and some money).

NavyChief

Yes it’s the ride quality kit with the air bags, nothing wrong with the bags but I don’t think they are going to work with the ride tech kit.

You’re right, you get what you pay for on this stuff. I read a couple people loved this kit so I thought I did my research but not enough. I mean the creaking and popping is irritating enough but the ball joint situation is unacceptable to me. I have a 22 model truck and I’m going to use ball joints out of a 2005 Chevy? They don’t even come out on the lower far enough to put a castle nut on so they used these thin nuts and you put loctite on and hope they don’t back off. One nut stripped on me (maybe grade 5) and they told me they don’t sell the nut so I had to go buy an entire ball joint for 85 to get the nut and it’s the castle nut so it doesn’t even thread all the way due to how thick the spindle is on these trucks.

1STtimer

The big thing is if you have the 6.5 foot bed and the supercrew. Very few kit manufacturers, including Ridetech, will tell you that it affects the overall height of their kit. Of all people, VAS actually did tell me that I would need to add a leaf in the rear, so I give them credit for that at least. Even with the AAL, my rear drop is about right on 5.5 inches at the 5.5 setting. My front drop is 3.5 with the preload at 1.5 inches. I wouldn't want any more preload.

However, there are no bleeps sweeps and creeps. Now that I got the alignment corrected the ride is great and with the rear bag setup, I can carry whatever I want and still look good doing it.