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Coil Spring spacer problem


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I put a 3" coil spring spacer on my 08 2wd ranger. About 2 weeks later, it settled about an inch which made it ride really bouncy. I put the rancho rs5000 maximum travel shocks which said 1" to 2.5" lifts and they bottom out. Any ideas on what could've caused this?
 


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I've been told the most you can put is a 2" spacer or you'll have to get an after market control arm to compensate for the extra spring length
 
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Did you get it aligned after installation?
 

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Well I kinda ghetto rigged the shocks to make them not bottom out anymore but I guess I have to live with the front being slightly lower than the back again.
 
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What spacers did you use? I installed 2in spacers a few months ago and they haven't settled. I don't think it would if they were aluminum. Maybe its the way you installed them or seated the springs? You installed them with the open part facing the outside right?
 
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a spacer should not settle. sounds to me like you broke one. spacers should have zero play or compression.
 
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Shitty poly ones do settle over time..... they mushroom out til the break. You're seriously way better of stacking steel washers than the spacers. Took me almost a year to break mine.
 
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Shitty poly ones do settle over time..... they mushroom out til the break. You're seriously way better of stacking steel washers than the spacers. Took me almost a year to break mine.
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he cant stack washers. The spacer is a convex/concave horseshoe type that sits on the top or bottom of the coil. what is really better in spindles and replacement coils.
 
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