DJM rear heardware kit.

[randuff]

Would installing this help my ride enough to be noticeable?

 

[NORCAL SS]

What rear springs are you running?

Did you cut the bumpstop bracktes off the frame?


My escalade has the 5305 coils with the djm hardware kit and spohn rear bar kit with the djm swaybars and rides perfect corners great also.

I only did the 3 inch drop but i cut them off anyway since I use the truck for towing.

 

[KMeloney]

Randall -- I hope to know the answer to your question soon. I have the kit on the way from Tony. I'll post as soon as I get it and get it on.

 

[NORCAL SS]

I already know the answer since late 1999 when I installed the first djm rear hardware kit on the truck lol.

Also if you install it wrong will ride horrible and yes there is a right and wrong way on install.

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also while your at it change the rear bolts to the size i said in my old post on getting rid of slop. That helps nicely also.

 

[KMeloney]

Tony -- Is the right and wrong way CLEARLY SHOWN in the directions? (I don't know what it is with the instructions in so many of these kits. Can't anyone take a photo of the install from his cell phone, or draw a decent picture -- and then start from a fresh copy after it's been xeroxed so many times that you can't see or read anything anymore? It's amazing.)

 

[NORCAL SS]

its all due when to torque the bolts. DJM says professional installer recommended because they should know the correct way and when to torque the links and all that so not included in the instructios

 

[randuff]

Rear springs are 5305 that I got from you.

Bumpstop brackets cut off last week.

Took out the spacer (front is now actually 1/8" higher than rear on driver side)

What rear springs are you running?

Did you cut the bumpstop bracktes off the frame?


My escalade has the 5305 coils with the djm hardware kit and spohn rear bar kit with the djm swaybars and rides perfect corners great also.

I only did the 3 inch drop but i cut them off anyway since I use the truck for towing.

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I assume over torquing screws up the poly bushing or something?

its all due when to torque the bolts. DJM says professional installer recommended because they should know the correct way and when to torque the links and all that so not included in the instructios

 

[NORCAL SS]

Rear springs are 5305 that I got from you.

Bumpstop brackets cut off last week.

Took out the spacer (front is now actually 1/8" higher than rear on driver side)



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I assume over torquing screws up the poly bushing or something?

And what rear shocks are you running?

if your going to do the rear upgrade all bolts to 1/2 inch grade 8 on the endlinks and then on the lower control arm 9/16 for front bolts.

 

[randuff]

2411ff

and what rear shocks are you running?

If your going to do the rear upgrade all bolts to 1/2 inch grade 8 on the endlinks and then on the lower control arm 9/16 for front bolts.

 

[Modded]

It won't make a difference. I have had them installed for about two and a half years.

 

[KMeloney]

It won't make a difference. I have had them installed for about two and a half years.

Dang. Really? No difference in ANYTHING? Ride or handling?

 

[NORCAL SS]

i installed them on my build and deff noticd a difference. Cornering also and got rid of the horrid swaybar angle. Let me try to find the thread from last year here a guy was upset with ride quality and put the rear hardware kit in and was then happy with the ride/cornering of the truck.

also on the autoride trucks when your installing it will look close to the pass side shock but dont worry it wont touch it.


sidenote can you guys take a pic of your rear swaybar angles and post em up I forgot to do that to mine I would like to show people what it looks like with the 3-4 inch rear drop with stock endlinks.


REMEMBER TO UPGRADE TO BIGGER BOLTS TO GET RID OF REAR END SLOP!!!!!!!

 

[Modded]

Dang. Really? No difference in ANYTHING? Ride or handling?

Nope. I wish I would have sold them. They only came in handy for getting the LCA parallel with the ground again.

 

[NORCAL SS]

and swaybar parallel with the ground again

 

[KMeloney]

If the LCAs become parallel to the ground again with the kit installed, am I going to have to mess with the length of my autoride links again? Or, does the leveling of the LCAs not affect the autoride links? (They ARE attached to the top of the LCAs, so...)

Thanks.

PS -- Tony, the kit arrived today!

 

[NORCAL SS]

If the LCAs become parallel to the ground again with the kit installed, am I going to have to mess with the length of my autoride links again? Or, does the leveling of the LCAs not affect the autoride links? (They ARE attached to the top of the LCAs, so...)

Thanks.

PS -- Tony, the kit arrived today!

the kit only touches the lower control arms not the uppers. the links are attached to the upper control arms not lower.

 

[Smokymance]

...


sidenote can you guys take a pic of your rear swaybar angles and post em up I forgot to do that to mine I would like to show people what it looks like with the 3-4 inch rear drop with stock endlinks.


REMEMBER TO UPGRADE TO BIGGER BOLTS TO GET RID OF REAR END SLOP!!!!!!!

Ill try to take a pic tomorrow of my swaybar....2/4 dropped here...and u can definitely tell the rear sway is at a different angle...i can see it when i walk up to the truck...when i first noticed it, i thought it was broken or something...no it was just hanging lower

 

[fire730]

I noticed the difference on every bump that my driveshaft wasn't slamming into the rear output housing on my transmission on my 04 XL. That problem was solved when I did the rear hardware kit.

As far as ride the only reason I couldnt definitely tell a difference is because I installed helper bags at the same time.

But if it's any concellation I bought the rear hardware kit for my 07 at the same time I bought the drop kit. I just haven't installed any of it yet.