Front end sag with snow plow

Everybody is way overthinking this, your alignment shop aligned it correctly and you'll be fine driving it with the plow on with 4" of ground clearance. If you are scraping at all then start cranking up the torsion bars until your not and have it re-aligned without the plow with that torsion bar setting since you daily drive it without the plow.

You want the plow to sit low so your truck is pushing as horizontally as possible instead of digging slightly vertically. When you hit something with your plow, you want the plow to flop forward and keep the truck height level.

Here's mine:

Just ditch the IFS and go SAS - simple

Nad_Yvalhosert said:

Toe-in and Toe-out doesnt cause bump steer.

Edit: let me rephrase. If its aligned and is in symmetry, the equal amounts of toe-in or toe-out wont cause bump steer

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Sorry, I was feeling tough last night for some reason and failed to articulate myself. Also, I kinda merged 2 ideas. I may need to invest in a breathalyzer for the old keyboard. . .

So we agree that ride height affects toe. But I am right when I say that ride height affects bump steer, because it does. For everything you never knew you didn't want to know about bumpsteer and suspension setup in general, check out these articles.


So the geometry give you your baked in camber/caster/toe curves. Nothing you can do about that without getting creative. While hitting a bump in a straight line will cause to to go back and forth, it won't cause the truck to pull one way or the other if the alignment it done correctly. It will absolutely make the truck pull one way or another mid corner when you hit a bump if you're at the far end of travel where pivot point angles are way outside of level. It's not about the angularity of the arms, it's about the angularity of the inboard and outboard pickup points of the UCA/LCA and tie rod. In the case of the OP, I suspect we're splitting hairs, but conceptually ride height 100% affects bump steer.

Don’t think I saw this posted, these seem to be popular for folks that run plows. I have them on the rear of my truck and they work great with the added weight of the camper.

mr_josh said:

Don’t think I saw this posted, these seem to be popular for folks that run plows. I have them on the rear of my truck and they work great with the added weight of the camper.

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My 1500 came with Timbrens and they suck empty. They're great when loaded FWIW.

This is with the plow on.

Macs Garage said:

This is with the plow on.

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What's it look like with the blade down?

This is with the blade off. I moved my sand bags to the end of the box for these pictures about 280# which did help level it. I went to Menard's and bought 480# worth of patio blocks and put them in the back tonight. I see how that works tomorrow. My son just got a part-time job installing snow plows at where he goes to school. I am hoping he can get me a deal on Timbrens.

Forgot to add the picture!

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That looks a bit low for an 8 lug. I've gotta question the Z height now as previously brought up in this thread.