- What's going on guys, I am Banker with Custom Offsets,
and I am here to give you another Lifts and Levels
because Brad is nowhere to be found as usual.
So this is gonna be a special one.
This is going to be for the new 2019 and up RAM 1500s,
and this is going to be the BDS 6" coilover system.
It's a brand new kit, just came out
for a truck that also just came out.
So we'll give you a quick rundown,
there's a lot of stuff to go through.
So if we start here, we've got the brand new lift knuckles,
those are gonna be fully forged knuckles,
and so special note on the 19 and ups,
if you have factory 22s you have a bigger hub bore.
Now I'm not saying wheel hub bore, it's actually
where the wheel hub mounts to the knuckle,
so that is a bigger bore on the 22s,
18s and 20s have a smaller one, 22s have their own.
So you want to note that, make sure you know
what you've got on your factory truck before ordering a kit.
This customer decided to upgrade to the BDS
upper control arms, always a good option.
The factory stuff, when going with bigger wheels and tires
isn't always up to par and can cause issues down the line
so BDS offers this right away, and it's gonna
look really good compared with the coilovers.
Underneath here we've just got some hardware
and some new sway bar links for the rear,
'cause it's going to be a coil suspension
in the rear, 'cause it's a RAM,
and that leads us to here, these are our dual rate springs,
so its got the progressive rate so it's got tight coils,
open coils so this is going to, if not retain it's going to
actually make the ride quality better in the back,
give you a little progressive rate.
Now because it's a coilover kit, it has the Fox upgrade
in the rear, so we got Fox rear shocks,
which are still in the box.
I'll take one of those out for you here.
Pretty standard setup, you've seen the Fox shocks before.
As we move down, we've got all sorts of
goodies and brackets here.
So these are going to be diff drop brackets
for the differential, 'cause obviously
we have to lower that with the lift kit.
Same here, these are all gonna be diff drop brackets.
We've got a spacer for the front drive shaft.
It's going to increase the length of that with the lift kit.
Over here we've got front and rear cross members,
nothing crazy, you've seen these before.
We've got the skid plate for the
differential once we lower it.
Now once we get into here,
we've got a rear track bar bracket.
Again, it's coil spring suspension,
it's got a little bit different stuff.
We've got bump stop brackets here,
and these are going to be brackets for your
rear radius arms, so the upper radius arm in the rear,
or floor length bar, is going to need to be
relocated up to accommodate the lift kit.
We've got some hardware here for that.
And then down here we have what everybody came to see,
with the new Fox coilovers.
This is gonna be the 2.5 Resis, they do not have
the DSC adjuster, so this is just the basic one
that comes with the kit, but that is everything
involved here for the six inch BDS.
So Brad's gonna get this installed, it's gonna take us
a couple days but we'll get it in there, and we'll show you
what it looks like and run back through it.
Hopefully Brad's back for that so I don't have to do it.
- Hello everyone, as you know I'm Matt.
Banker, he so kindly introduced this Lifts and Levels
for you and I will finish it off for you here.
We've got the BDS six inch coilover system installed
on the truck here, we're gonna run through the parts.
As you know, this is a brand new system.
This is the first one we've ever installed,
and probably one of the first few that
have been installed on the market out there.
As you know, the 2019 RAM 1500 is a new design
for the whole chassis, suspension, body.
Everything is all new, so all of the kits out there
are all new for this truck, and BDS is one of the
first ones that I know of that has a coilover system,
and we were lucky enough to get to install it here.
So as you can see we got these
brand new forged knuckles that BDS has created,
we have their new tubular BDS upper control arms.
You'll notice this kit also has new outer tie rods,
so no cutting of the factory tie rods or anything like that.
Got your sway bar drop brackets here,
lower control arm drop brackets.
So a lot of the same type of components as the older trucks,
but obviously they're just a new design for this new truck.
Differential drops, you got your
right and left differential drop.
We'll have to get some close-up shots over
once we finish talking about this here.
And then what else do we got?
Looks like we got the skid plate here to protect
the front diff when it's dropped down,
ties in to the front and the rear crossmember.
So you'll notice that this kit has the
new BDS tubular upper control arms here.
Those are actually an optional piece.
There's kits designed to work with the factory arms,
but this customer upgraded to the
tubular heavy-duty BDS ones.
Now also you'll see these new braided
stainless brake lines here, that's another option.
Kits designed to work with the factory ones,
but this customer decided to upgrade to the aftermarket ones
that BDS offers, so just something to note.
And you also will notice here that there is a
driveshaft spacer, a front driveshaft spacer,
this aluminum spacer up here.
That's gonna prevent the joint from coming apart
on the transfer case end is why they do that there.
We'll get a shot of that later.
And that's really gonna be, well actually I think
I forgot to mention, obviously the Fox 2.5 inch
coilovers up front here with the external reservoir.
These newer ones have the orange decal on them,
just simply a new design that Fox has
with their sticker, nothing different about them.
These are not VFC adjustable,
these are just the fixed valving coilovers.
So we got the two fives up front,
got the built-in bump stops on them
here as well at the bottom,
and then moving around to the back of the truck,
we can see what we got going on back there.
Being that this is a RAM, we got coil springs in the back
so there's no leaf spring, so it's not just a simple
block and U-bolt change, so there's
a lot more stuff going on.
You'll notice BDS gives you a new spring for the rear,
it's a progressive or dual rate spring
as you'll notice by the coil stack
at the top verses the spacing at the bottom.
We got our upper control arm relocation bracket
here on the axle, which you can see is installed.
Fox 2.0 shocks in the rear, and then some
heavy duty extended sway bar end links here.
You'll see that we had to relocate
the brake line on the frame here.
And then one of the other key components
is the track bar relocation bracket.
This is the track bar here which locates the rear axle
underneath the truck, and you'll see that they have to
have this extension bracket installed here to
keep everything centered up at the new lifted height,
and another brake line relocation bracket over here as well.
The new coil spring, upper control arm relocation bracket,
and then the new shocks to the rear as well.
And that's pretty much gonna cover it for the RAM 1500
six inch coilover system from BDS
for the 2019 RAM 1500s, four wheel drive.
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