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Originally Posted by Jeremy556
With 16" coilovers you are looking at multi rate springs, where you have multiple springs with differing spring rates stacked on top of each other. Also keep in mind with a solid axle, the spring rates will be much lower than with the IFS springs which are leveraged like 2:1.
When you start getting into this realm of travel, you can't sit at 50% ride height without being massively tall and a horrible COG, so you sit low in the suspension travel and have tons of down travel.
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Bingo, much better said then how I wrote it.
For example, I had 700# springs in the front with my IFS and today have a 150# helper spring in which may go up to a 175 and then the top spring will most likely be in the 250 range. I will confirm all spring rates on Monday once we have the best set installed.
We have done our best to keep the truck as low as possible naturally, several weeks ago we jointly decided it was best to raise COG up 1" for better clearance of the tires. It's not so much the height as it is the width of the lugs. Now we have zero clearance problems under compressor or lock to lock with the steering.
