- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets.
Got another episode of Lifts and Levels.
This is gonna be a 6 1/2 inch Zone KIT.
This is gonna be for 2014 up to 2018 RAM 2500 trucks,
trucks with the coil springs in the rear as well.
This is going to be the radius arm kit.
Zone has two different kits;
they have a radius arm drop kit,
which will reuse the factory radius arms,
and they have a kit that comes with new radius arms,
which is what this kit is here
and you can see these new, massive radius arms
that Zone makes for these trucks.
Then we got new coil springs up front.
What's nice about these is the dual rate spring.
As you can see, the coils are wound tighter
up towards the top vs at the bottom,
so it'll give you optimum ride.
Then you got dual straight rings for the rear as well,
which is very nice in terms of the lift kit world,
you don't see that too often.
We're just gonna kinda run through all the components,
obviously the lift's gonna be coming from the springs
and what they do to correct that is
you're gonna have your front track bar drop the bracket,
which is going to realign the track bar
so that your front axle is then centered
on the truck once it's lifted.
They also include one for the rear because
these trucks have a rear jack bar
being that they're coil sprung in the rear.
And then we got some quite large
sway bar end links, some new bump stops
and then
sway bar
realignment or
alignment brackets,
I believe these are gonna be for the front sway bar,
forge drop pitman arm,
which is obviously what you're gonna need
to help keep your drag link up front
as flat, or close to stack like angles, as possible.
And then there's gonna be...
Okay, this particular kit's got the nitro shocks on it,
these are Zone standard shocks,
most Zone kits you can upgrade to Fox shocks
but this one has the Zone shocks.
And then probably the next thing worth
talking about would be this piece here.
And this piece here, these are gonna be for
the transfer case clocking ring.
Now, it's not required to do the transfer case clocking
on this kit but it is recommended if you're
looking to try and avoid any potential for
driveline vibrations while in four wheel drive
at higher speeds and that's what this is gonna do.
And this new crossmember, basically what happens is
the transfer case will get clocked down,
meaning the front output will be lower toward the ground
which will decrease the angle on your front drive shaft,
therefor reducing any potential for vibration,
so that's what this is gonna be for,
and this new crossmember.
And just so you know, that is quite labor intensive.
So, if you do get something like that,
it's probably gonna cost more for shops doing it
because they're gonna have to do
a lot more labor to install that.
Also, let's see, this customer opted for
the dual steering stabilizers,
they're just gonna be the standard nitro stabilizers,
which is Zone's standard option.
Dual steering stabilizers upfront, once again, not necessary
but an option that the customer wanted to go for.
And I think I hit pretty much everything.
This is gonna be a driveshaft spacer,
for you there so the driveshaft's not being over extended.
Lots of hardware, lots of bushings,
and lots of instructions as you can see here.
That's really pretty much gonna be it
and that's gonna be the Zone 6 1/2 inch kit.
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Alright everyone, we got the Zone 6 1/2 inch kit
installed on the truck here and we just gonna
run through the parts as they're installed on the truck.
You can see the first thing that you're gonna notice is
this new coil spring up front.
This is the dual rate spring,
you can see the closer-wound coils are on top
and the more spread apart coils are gonna be
on the bottom of this spring here;
that's simply because dual rate springs will offer,
can offer, a better ride if they're set up properly.
And then, another key component to lift
is the track bar relocation mount,
which is gonna be this bracket right here,
as you can see, that's gonna drop
the track bar down from the stock location here.
And the whole point of that is to keep this front axle
centered, left to right, under the truck.
If you were to try and keep this in the factory location
it would pull the axle over to one side
and you'd have this side of the truck,
the wheel would be sticking out
a lot more than the other side.
And then we got our sway bar drop brackets here.
A new drop pitman arm as well.
And then another thing that you should know
when you do the drop pitman arm,
you do have to modify the factory drag link.
I believe you have to cut it so that it can be short enough.
New shocks up front, these are the nitro shocks.
This particular kit is gonna be the new radius arm kit.
The new radius arms are longer than the factory radius arms.
Once again, that's to keep the
front axle centered in the wheel well.
If you reuse the shorter arms, it would actually pull
the axle backwards and cause all kinds of issues there.
Really I think that's pretty much it for the front.
There's this one, we got the dual steering stabilizer
on this truck, which is an option.
You can see the dual steering stabilizer right here;
it's a nice feature on solid axle trucks
especially when you run bigger tires to help prevent
any kind of death wobble issues or anything like that.
Alright, so, forgot one major thing on these kits here;
transfer case clocking ring, which is essential
on the larger kits like this 6 1/2 inch kit,
and what that pretty much does is
takes your transfer case front output, lowers it down,
and that's simply to reduce the angle
on this front driveshaft here.
As you can see, at full jupe, we still have
complete free rotation of the driveshaft, no binding there.
So what that is, it's gonna be that clocking ring
and you actually have to take the transfer case off
the extension housing, install the clocking ring
and then pretty much install the transfer case back on
and then they also give you a little spacer here
for the front driveshaft as well
which is gonna help any kind of
running out of slip issues on your shaft there.
And then, they do include this new crossmember,
so right here, this whole piece here,
that you take the factory crossmember out, ditch that,
and you use this new one that's just a little bit lower;
it gives you the proper clearance for
the front shaft as well as
to mount the transmission transfer kit back up to it.
So that's a very important piece that
I pretty much forgot until
I was kindly reminded by a fellow coworker here.
In the rear, these are a coil sprung rear truck,
so no leaf springs in the rear,
so it's a little more complicated than just
blocks and shocks in the rear.
We do obviously have the new shocks,
we got longer, much longer, sway bar end links for the rear,
and, as you can see, the new coil springs
for the rear of the truck, these are quite massive as well,
bump stop drop down brackets here that you can see,
and then another, just like the front, which is coil sprung,
the rears of these trucks have a track bar
and that must be relocated as well.
And you can see the new track bar bracket
that Zone includes here, and it's the same thing,
same rule of thumb for that as it is the front,
it's to keep the axle centered,
left to right, under the truck
once it's been lifted up like this so,
that's a key component there
that any good kit will have in it.
And, really, I think that's pretty much it
not too many things going on,
just the rears on these trucks are
a little more complicated than leaf sprung trucks.
But that's gonna pretty much do it for this
Zone 6 1/2 inch kit for, I forget the years now.
What year is this truck?
- [Coworker] 18
What is it? What's the year range these fit? 14
So this is gonna be the Zone 6 1/2 inch kit
that fits 2014 to 18 and possible 2019,
they haven't confirmed it yet.
RAM 2500 trucks, this one's a...
This one's a 2018.
But yeah, Zone 6 1/2 inch kit, check it out. Bye
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