Anybody running Trekmaster shocks and load leaf, just wandering how they were cause it looks like a nice little package, thinkin about gettin it. Also anybody know how much the trekmaster load leaf lifts uo the rear of your car, just wanderin? :rolleyes:

Load leaves are not really for lifting...they are what the springs on top compress down onto...so, they keep you from sagging under full load, and help prevent reverse arching of your main spring pack.

If its really a helper spring...then it might be more like an AAL, and stiffen the main pack, potentially making the X taller in back by some amount, and less flexible due to the stiffer pack.

As for the shocks...Trekmasters are not known as high end units...so ?

What is it you want to accomplish? X number of inches in back to do a PML? More load capacity because you are overloaded now?

Maybe more detail would help.

naw i wanna do an AAL and that looked like a pretty cool deal. cause i wanna safely fit 31's without much trimming or rubbing of the tires.

Do a poor man's lift...Shackles in the rear with a T-bar crank up front and you fit 31's with no problems what so ever..

Then you're done already...31's fit a stock '04.



Besides...remember that even if you lift it, when you hit a bump/are compressing one side, etc...the tire goes up to where it would have been before the lift any way...so if you wanted a large enough tire to need a lift to avoid rub, it would still rub during the part of its travel that rubbed at stock height.

The only three ways to prevent rub, on a larger tire that you needed to lift to avoid rub at ride height:

1. Body Lift (Raises the part that would have hit, preserves articulation)

2. Bumpstop extensions (Stops the tire from rising as far, keeping it from hitting, you lose articulation)

3. Trimming/BFH-ing. (Removes the parts that hit or bends them out of the way, you keep articulation)

Thats it....those three options.

Pick your poison.



PS - If you just want a mild (1.5") lift, do shackles and a t-bar crank...not AAL and a t-bar crank,

...the shackle/crank version costs about $50 in parts -vs- about $150 in parts for the AAL version....Plus, the shackle version rides like stock, not stiffer like the AAL, ...and, has better articualtion.