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2021-2023 F-150 Ford Performance Leveling Kit (by Bilstein) is released
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JohnMcClane
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TexasTruck
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Personally, these trucks look good with a little rake, not a lot, but a little, yours looks just right. Nice work!
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Jjdh
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One thing I noticed is the oem shocks are a lot more difficult to compress, and rebound a lot faster than the Bilstein. Anyone able to chime in on that. Here are a couple videos. I’m not sure if they will be easy to see. I also noticed that if you bottom out the Bilstein, it will actually stay stuck down. Ideas on that?
GIjoe
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That’s interesting, I had the opposite experience with my prior Bilstein 4600 and my current fox’s. The only ones I’ve seen stay compressed were the stock rancho’s that came in my f250 and they were garbage and I think they lost their charge. Yours don’t look bad to me though.
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JohnMcClane
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I imagine the compression/expansion differences are due to differences in valving and compression ratios. The tough compression/fast expansion can be experienced while driving the truck, if you take a turn at reasonable speed and hit a bump, you are very likely to experience axle walk with the stock shocks (I know I did).
Do not worry about them getting "stuck" in the compressed position, gonna have several hundred pounds of leaf spring "unstucking" them, it is likely the valve reaching a neutral pressure zone when bottomed out, this is a good thing, you don't want the shock trying to "bounce" back quickly with the leaf springs also trying to return to an uncompressed position.
I'm sure there's some folks here who can explain/understand it better than I, but this is just based on my understanding of the rear suspension.
Do not worry about them getting "stuck" in the compressed position, gonna have several hundred pounds of leaf spring "unstucking" them, it is likely the valve reaching a neutral pressure zone when bottomed out, this is a good thing, you don't want the shock trying to "bounce" back quickly with the leaf springs also trying to return to an uncompressed position.
I'm sure there's some folks here who can explain/understand it better than I, but this is just based on my understanding of the rear suspension.
12th Man Ag
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Is the warranty worth the price? You can get this same setup from Stage3 for $1099. Seems the extra $650 is Ford fluff?
JohnMcClane
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Depends how much you value warranty?
I’m seeing $1550 for the Ford Performance kit at Stage3.
Not sure where you’re getting $650 from?
Keep in mind the front assemblies on the Fords come ready to install.
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