Tie rods hitting Bilsteins coil mount?

When you turn the wheel clearances change. Did you happen to switch the passenger side tie rod to the driver side and vice versa when you installed the lift kit?

Did you install the bilsteins with the coils in the correct direction as directed on the write ups on here?

Those two things are the only issues it should be since 100's of guys run the same setup as you.

honda250xtitan said:

When you turn the wheel clearances change. Did you happen to switch the passenger side tie rod to the driver side and vice versa when you installed the lift kit?

Did you install the bilsteins with the coils in the correct direction as directed on the write ups on here?

Those two things are the only issues it should be since 100's of guys run the same setup as you.

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I bought the truck lifted but saw online that you need to switch tie rods to the opposite side. So when I put the new ones on the right went on the left and left on the right. This is the correct way isn't it?

I don't remember reading anything about how the coils went. Just that make sure you got the washer, bushings setup up correctly. So what way are they supposed to go? How are your facing? Now I'm really confused. I just read over the 5100 tips thread but I don't understand what he means on how the coils go.

The coils were they are the most separate goes on the bottom and the part that is closer and flatter is the top?

But then which way does the end of the coil spring/coil mount point? I didn't realize it had to go a certain way.

The coils were they are the most separate goes on the bottom and the part that is closer and flatter is the top?

But then which way does the end of the coil spring/coil mount point? I didn't realize it had to go a certain way.

the last coil where the plastic cover is supposed to either face in towards the motor or away from the motor. i forget which way. lol. You might need to do a little research on it, I believe on my 06 i put a punch through the bottom of the shock and twisted it the right way. Not sure if that was good for the shock or not lol.

Can you check how yours are facing? Lol I'm guessing the end of the coil have to face inward towards motor for me since the side that is getting scraped is facing outwards. Maybe it's year dependent? Cause one of the install threads on here where it shows the actual finished picture shows the coil end facing rearward towards the back of the truck or towards the motor can't really tell. But idk what year his is. And mine is hitting that way.

Here's one of the threads i used.

http://www.titantalk.com/forums/tit...on.html#/forumsite/20504/topics/130283?page=1

I am running fox 2.5 coilovers. haven't ran bilsteins in about a year.

honda250xtitan said:

I am running fox 2.5 coilovers. haven't ran bilsteins in about a year.

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Ah nice. Dammit.. hopefully someone chimes in soon with the same setup. Don't want to damage the shock or the coil mount.

Buummpppp

No one knows which way the coils go while assembling and which way the end of the coil should face?

I was told they had to be straight in toward the engine or straight out toward the wheel.
Mine are facing in and no contact.

Smccarty3 said:

I was told they had to be straight in toward the engine or straight out toward the wheel.
Mine are facing in and no contact.

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So the end of your coil and the step in the coil mount are facing towards the motor? I need to figure this out before the weekend since I'm going to be tackling my uppers when they come in and wanna solve this. Could this be why maybe my uppers are at such a bad angle? I'm hoping the rc uca's help my issue.

I know they say it doesn't contribute, but it does. Its not letting the truck settle as much, so its keeping the UCA closer to the coil bucket. If it lifts the truck it changes where the UCA is relative to the coil bucket.


At least thats how I've always thought

Damn so much conflicting info. I mean there's others running the same exact setup with the middle setting and 08 4x4 coils. Since I have to compress the coils to align them correctly I want to figure out if I can stay at the middle notch and run rc uppers and have no more problems. If not drop down to lowest setting. Just sucks cause I like the height I got. How much height will I loose going to lowest? I also left off the swaybar will the lowest setting be too soft to still run no swaybar?

You'll lose about an inch in the front dropping down to the lowest setting.

Myn face out the same as yours and I have no issues.
I also never swapped my tie rods around. They don't rub anything

Paskell said:

Myn face out the same as yours and I have no issues.
I also never swapped my tie rods around. They don't rub anything

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Are you bracket lifted? The instructions for the procomp require you to swap the tie rods. As for your bilsteins thats weird. For just replacing worn out shocks to quality ones it's turning into a headache. I'm hoping the occasional squeak and creak I hear is the upper a arm/joints and not the shocks. I followed the bushing/washers instructions to a tee so that for sure is correct I took my time with that part and kept looking over the install thread pics. I might buy some tubing to replace the coil spring lower bushing since they're pretty worn out since I'm going to be compressing the coils to face them the way bilsteins recommends. and to decide if I should drop to lowest setting but not sure if I'll get more roll since I went no sway bar. RC arms should be coming tomorrow.

Naw I just have a 1.5" spacer 5100 on mid setting. I didn't know if you had a bracket lift just thought I'd state that myn faced that way. It was the only way they would face with the spacer ontop.

Ah the joys of bilsteins. Good luck!