Shocks or leafs first?

[Skinhyfish]

Building out my F350 with this Outpost camper. I have chosen Alcan to upgrade my springs. With all the cost and money, need to step the process. Going with tuned shocks I have been waiting on the weight. Now having the stats. I can’t do both at same time. My ride sucks at this time. I have the crappy Carli cheapos on at this time. To improve ride, could I put shocks on first then few months down the road? Or do leafs first?

Thanks guys. Looking at Radflo

 

[tacollie]

Yes. I ran my fox 2.5 for 3 years before I could justify the Alcans. That being said, if I had to do it over I would buy the Alcans first. They manage loads so much better than the factory leafs.

 

[GR8ADV]

Building out my F350 with this Outpost camper. I have chosen Alcan to upgrade my springs. With all the cost and money, need to step the process. Going with tuned shocks I have been waiting on the weight. Now having the stats. I can’t do both at same time. My ride sucks at this time. I have the crappy Carli cheapos on at this time. To improve ride, could I put shocks on first then few months down the road? Or do leafs first?

Thanks guys. Looking at Radflo

Serious question. What model are Carli cheapo’s?

 

[andy_b]

Building out my F350 with this Outpost camper. I have chosen Alcan to upgrade my springs. With all the cost and money, need to step the process. Going with tuned shocks I have been waiting on the weight. Now having the stats. I can’t do both at same time. My ride sucks at this time. I have the crappy Carli cheapos on at this time. To improve ride, could I put shocks on first then few months down the road? Or do leafs first?

Thanks guys. Looking at Radflo

I have run tuned Fox 2.0s on prior truck before custom springs and ADS 2.5s on current F350 before springs - each time, the custom leafs made a much bigger impact. IMHO, these trucks are totally fine with custom valved 2.0s. 2.5s look cooler and have a higher theoretical performance ceiling, but not worth the cost. The only reason I went with 2.5s on the newer F350 is because ADS was able to adapt the 2.5s from one truck to another. If this wasn’t an option, I was going to get another set of Fox 2.0s from Accutune.

 

[Skinhyfish]

Serious question. What model are Carli cheapo’s?

https://www.carlisuspension.com/product/ford/f250-f350/ford-shock-packages/3-5%E2%80%B3-shock-packages/2023-ford-f250-350-4x4-diesel-leveling-shock-packages/leveling-2/

 

[Westy]

Over this past summer Alcan installed new rear leaf packs on my Power Wagon + Hiatus Camper combo. I had been considering shock replacement as well but knew the rear leafs would be the true overall solution for my needs and I wasn't ready to spend the extra money on new shocks.

I wouldn't be too concerned or in a rush to replace the shocks.

I'm still running the Thuren Fox 2.0 and to my surprise they are working very well.

 

[Trektor73]

Are you going to be using the truck a lot in the interim? I would say springs first so that when you buy the shocks, they will be tuned to that spring rate.

 

[Trestle]

Springs first. Installed shocks with a bandaid spacer lift to tie us over until the springs arrive. The shocks were off…until we put the proper springs on with the proper rates. They the shocks were perfect. Had I retuned them, and not waited for the springs first, we would have had to retune the shocks.

Use Alcan and would use them again. Used Accutune for shocks and would use them again too.

Best of luck.

 

[gator70]

Are you going to be using the truck a lot in the interim? I would say springs first so that when you buy the shocks, they will be tuned to that spring rate.

I suppose the USA pickup trucks are bad platforms for overland travel with weight

 

[rruff]

Fox 2.0s from Accutune.

Did those have the reservoir?

 

[rruff]

I suppose the USA pickup trucks are bad platforms for overland travel with weight

What a weird comment. Are you going to be running with stock springs and shocks?

 

[andy_b]

Did those have the reservoir?

yes.