2" Suspension Lift

[skywhr]

2" suspension lift

https://www.4x4parts.com/catalog/produc ... ts_id=5643

Deluxe Competition Suspension Package with Rear Rancho RS9000XL
SKU: SPAC05PFDXCOMPRSX $1,085.00USD
Deluxe Competition Suspension Package with Rear Rancho RS9000XL
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2005-2009 Pathfinder

# Exclusively from Automotive Customizers, the high quality and performance you've come to rely on from Bilstein products
# Designed to work like factory coil overs
# Bolts in to the existing top and bottom mounts
# Increases wheel travel by 25% with stock a-arms
# If used with long travel arms you will gain additional travel
# Adjustable
# Coils replace your factory coils
# Made of high quality steel using cold-wound process which virtually reduces settling or sagging
# Provides improved support for vehicles equipped with a winch or heavy bumper
# Spring rate is increased and your ride will be firmer. Anytime you lift your vehicle, the firmness of your ride will be increased
# Requires coil compressor for installation
# Coils keep the factory CV angles and steering components within factory design parameters
# Powder coated black for longevity
# Front can gain 3" of lift but 2.5" is optimum for great ride quality. Will gain 2" of lift in the rear.
# Includes:

1. 2-coil over front shocks
2. 2 front lift coils
3. 2 T-6 aluminum spring seats
4. Low profile bump stops
5. Spanner Wrenches
6. 2 rear lift coils
7. 2 rear Rancho RS9000XL Shocks

# Can re-use stock upper coil mount with isolator from the old coil over

[skywhr]

oh yea there are 4 versions of the lift
this was the most expensive

https://www.4x4parts.com/catalog/index. ... 37_341_649

[KEVSTER]

SAW IT FEW DAYS AGO, NICE..

[xd9-g19]

not trying to bash or anything, but wouldn't be better just to put out the extra 600 and get the 5in calmini lift.

[skywhr]

I personally am not interested in 5" of lift.

Isnt the Calmin lift a sub frame lift?

[socal4x]

I would avoid the Rancho 9000s. I had those with my first lift. One of them broke.


Bilsteins are better.

[Russian Gaucho]

if you see the Rancho 9000 shocks specifications for the pathy you will undestand that it is not the best option at all. Those shocks have the same travel (or less) than the OEM shocks. So, if you put a 2" lift you will loss 2" of extension travel. That is not what happens with the OME kit, that lift 1.5" and gives between 1.5" to 2" of extra wheel extension travel.

And the calmini 5" kit is a good option, it is a drop differential kit (for the front and the rear diff, off course). It doesn't give more travel, but it gives A LOT of extra approach and departure angles, and what it is more important in the pathy: it gives a dramatical increment of the breakover angle, wich is the worst feature in our truck as I see.
The best idea is a combination of a calmini drop diff kit and a good suspension kit (with more travel)

I am still waiting for a good option from PRG, but they don't answer my emails

[skywhr]

Increases wheel travel by 25% with stock a-arms

They have a version with Bilstein Shocks for $1045

[Russian Gaucho]

Increases wheel travel by 25% with stock a-arms

They have a version with Bilstein Shocks for $1045

That is for the front, where they use a custom shock ( and the same does the OME kit, increasing travel) but for the rear it seems to be a rancho shock in that kit, and as I see is more important to increas the rear travel than only the front.

I really want to increase the rear travel with a longer shock (longer than the OME), but for that is necessary to change the break lines (with longers) and the upper bump stop if we don't want to destroy the rear shocks at full compression.

[socal4x]

Incidentally, I think the Rancho shock broke by pushing it beyond its ability, and past its limit of travel. I have never broke a shock before on any of my 4wheelers.

Look at shock manufacturers that put forward a racing and off road product. Their stuff will cater more toward off-roading (fox, bilstein, donahoe, swayaway, etc.), and will be more heavy duty.

The shock body is important, but equally or more so is the coil manufacturer. Sway a Way uses Eibach, and I have had them in the past, and am now considering that route for the front. As for the rear, the Pathy is a complicated issue. Time will tell.

[skywhr]

I broke a stock rear shock on my 02 frontier offroading