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- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets.
Got a episode of "Lifts and Levels".
This one's a little different,
this is gonna be something that
a lot of people are finding out about now.
It's the Bilstein Ride Height Adjustable 5100 series struts.
So what it is, is pretty much a leveling kit,
without the spacers, almost.
So nowadays, its very common for IFS trucks to be running
a strut upfront, and the thing to do with a
leveling kit for a strut, is you use a spacer
and then everyone hates spacers, because
the internet says to hate spacers, so what Bilstein
has here is the Ride Height Adjustable series.
And you can see here, basically how it works is
there's a little grooves machines in the body of the strut.
They include the circlip, which can
be set at different grooves here, which give you,
you'll do different lift types.
And they tell you which one does what, blah blah blah.
The first one here would be, zero inch is the the lift,
and number four here is what they recommend
as the max lift height on this particular truck here.
And they say it's gonna give you approximately
1.6 inches of lift at this height, so what you
do then is, you assemble the strut just as a normal strut.
You put your bottom seat here,
you're gonna swap over the spring from the old strut.
You're gonna need a strut compressor to do that.
But then once you get it all swapped over,
because this simple little circlip, you'll
actually get lift from the front of the truck, so
then you can have a level truck without a spacer.
And you can see here, this one's assembled with
the boot or whatever, but we're gonna be putting it on
this Toyota over here, and then,
they're also getting the back matched up with just
some standard 5100 series, non-adjustable.
It seems like, this is the new cool thing to do.
Bilstein, of course makes the quality shock
and everyone love them, you can't go wrong with them,
for the price, but they don't make them
for every vehicle, so you have to check and see
if they have one for your truck.
That's gonna be the Bilstein 5100 series
Ride Height Adjustable struts, peace.
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Alright guys, so we got this, the Bilstein 5100 series
leveling strut, or I should say,
it's not necessary a leveling strut.
Adjustable Ride Height strut installed on the truck,
as you can see we put it up all the way and in this case,
makes the truck pretty level.
We're gonna show you what it looks like on the truck.
Alright, so you can see here, it's a pretty simple install,
simply replacing the factory strut with this new,
the Bilstein strut here.
As you can see, you have to swap over
the factory coil spring, the ones you get all installed.
This track goes back in place just like factory.
Factory bolt gets installed,
and you are good to go pretty much for the front.
Nothing really was done to the rear,
the rear wasn't lifted up or anything at all.
We just simply installed the matching shocks for the rear.
It's just gonna be the 5100 series shocks in the back,
that's just the standard remove and replace of
the factory shocks and you're all good to go.
And that's pretty much gonna wrap it up for
the Bilstein 5100 series adjustable Ride Height strut,
that we installed on this 2006,
uh Tundra Toyota 4x4.
Peace.
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