Leveling my truck in the next coming few months and looking for some input on the parts I have selected right now. The truck is a 98.5 QCLB 2500 SRW 3.55 gears, it's my daily for the most part and tows a 30' gooseneck with 2 jeeps on the back a couple weekends a month. The most off road it sees is the occasional muddy parking lot at the off road parks. Wheel and tire set up I've chosen is to keep my 17" 3rd gen wheels and pick up some 35x12.5" Toyo AT2's. Looking to avoid running any sort of spacer if I can keep my tires from rubbing the control arms. Here's what I have picked out so far:

-Carli 3" lift coils (CJC Offroad)

-Bilstein 5100 shocks (CJC Offroad)

-Dodge Offroad HD adjustable track bar

-Dodge Offroad Steering box brace

-Dodge Offroad bent lower arms and fixed upper arms

 

Open to looking at different control arms if anyone else has recommendations on those. Also looking into aftermarket sway bar links or potentially just a sway bar drop bracket?

Those parts listed should clear the tire size you wanna run no problem. Metal cloak is another good option for arms but DOR makes a solid product. 

 

Youll want to look into something for the rear, as it’s almost guaranteed you’ll have a really nose high rake once your gooseneck and jeeps are loaded. From what I’ve seen with the carli springs (and Thuren for that matter) they sit nose high even when unloaded so keep that in mind.

32 minutes ago, notlimah said:

Those parts listed should clear the tire size you wanna run no problem. Metal cloak is another good option for arms but DOR makes a solid product. 

 

Youll want to look into something for the rear, as it’s almost guaranteed you’ll have a really nose high rake once your gooseneck and jeeps are loaded. From what I’ve seen with the carli springs (and Thuren for that matter) they sit nose high even when unloaded so keep that in mind.

 

Yeah I've been meaning to look into some helper bags for the rear, but it doesn't sag right now that's why I don't have any yet. Hoping someone with 3" Carli springs can chime in, preferably the truck would sit just about level front and rear unloaded.

With the long bed I think the positive or negative take stands out more. I’d google search it so you can get an idea. I’m pretty sure stormin08 on cumminsforum has 3in springs from one of those two companies and his is like riiiiight at level, maybe a slight nose high take depending on how you look at it, but he’s also a short bed so it’s harder to see.

 

I have 2in spacers and there’s even times where I look at the truck and it appears nose high. Turns out it’s not but just he angle it can deceive you at times. With a trailer or heavy load in the bed, my truck sits ever so slightly nose high. I plan on going down to 1in spacers when I can get new shocks in hopes it’s a happy medium between stock rake and somewhat leveled look.