Small lift for the wife's daily driver?

[Badmunky]

Still have not ordered the lift yet.
Right now I am trying to decide on front struts.

Also I plan to add air helper springs to the rear to keep things level if needed. And I will be using a weight distributing hitch as well.

Right now I'm thinking I will just use new OEM front struts. But I am still looking at other options as well.

What do you guys think?

 

[Zed 71]

If you are putting the level kit on (spacers), the front OEM struts will top out when fully drooped. Really not an issue for normal street driving, but really noticable off-road. IMO check out the Bilstien 5100s.

If you have the money and want the best ride (IMO), you cannot beat a coil over like Fox or Icon. Those will be about $1k. I installed ICONs on my other rig and they are awesome. Right now considering putting them on the Tahoe, but that depends if we are going to keep it long term.

 

[Badmunky]

Well I ordered the Bilstein 5100 front struts today.
Also ordered 1/2" front lift kit. So that should put me at 2.25" of lift in the front.
For the rear I ordered a 1.5" lift kit with shock extenders. Will have to wait till it gets here to see if the extenders are the right size for sure.
Also the rear shocks I bout are from a Yukon XL. So they should be a little bit stiffer then the stock shocks that come on the Yukon.
There still Nivomat shocks as they came off a Yukon XL with the ZW7 suspension.

I'll post up how every thing went with pics and such when I get it all on around the 27th.