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Rancho RS5000

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by SurfBum » Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:57 am

So after waiting to put on Mark's lift, as well as prolonging the life of my dead sturts, until the Bilstein's came off back order I have ordered from Shockwarehouse, CaRiD and 4wheelparts Autoimplicity (when I called Summit they cant get them to me before I need them wihtout paying as ass ton of money) and every last one of them has refunded my money due to them being unavailable.

I searched a bit for anybody that has run the Rancho RS5000 and have seen mention of them but no reports. So the question will be....does anybody have first or secondhand knowledge of anybody running these lifted? My Envoy is a daily driver but also my hunting rig. Can't wait too much longer as I have a couple trips into the backwoods planned out in the next few weeks and do not want to be running my old beat to sh*t struts. The almighty knowledge of the members on this forum are greatly appreciated in advance. :flex dirty:
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by Anthony Hernandez » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:04 am

Man I got a set on marks 3" lift, have yet to install it. Still running with bds and bilsteins. I got them from Ed Barr, he's a mechanic guy from the site. Ed ran them and said the ride was good, the reviews (I've read a lot of them) are pretty high up there too. It's actually got an 89 spring on them, he liked them a lot, even with that heavy spring. Other than that, I haven't tried them so I cannot comment further.
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by Eredin » Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:04 pm

Interesting to know that the Bilstein are already backordered again, suppose I got lucky when I snatched mine from Shockwarehouse a few months ago.
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by SurfBum » Wed Aug 05, 2015 5:57 am

I was definitely a bit disappointed when I ordered them so many times only to find out that they were not available. Everybody seems to be running those on their rides. I ended up ordering the Rancho so I guess we will see shortly how they ride.
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by navigator » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:09 am

I just got a set of Bilsteins off of Amazon (prime) for the front last week. I'm going to install them on a set of Moog 8114s I have.
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