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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Firstly, at 27", the front is too high. That's common on the SD and I found the original pads to be the thickest available............without any good reason. I replaced those pads with the thinnest available and the front end came down to 26".
The 25.5" dimension for the rear is very close to the dimension that you seek and new springs are definitely unwarranted. A thicker spring pad, new differential mount, and new shocks will easily gain another inch in the rear. 26.5" is about the limit............it starts to look ridiculous at 27".
Since it is a conventional suspension, you must suffer with decreasing ride height in the rear when weight is added. It all depends on how much you typically carry. You can set it up a bit high (27") with no weight and it will still do a good job with 400 lb. of payload.
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I guess it would make sense to replace the front pads with the thinnest available to see how much clearance gain I would get in the back. The other thing is that I have been looking into replacing the subframe mount anyway. To summarize, thinner pads in the front, new subframe mount and thicker pads in the rear would do the trick. That, after all, would bring me to the 27" clearance in the rear without any weight.