I have no idea what she looks like but I'm instantly in love! You're a lucky guy!

 

What lift and 285s did you get? Are those 33" tires (i.e. 285/70/17)?

 

The size is 285/70/17 I think the measurement comes out to 32.5 or something like that. They are Toyo open country. Very happy with these tires.

BTW, for anyone doing a lift with wheels and tires I highly recommend going out for some somewhat heavy wheeling before aligning. I aligned mine right after the lift with new tires, went mudding, then checked alignment and the settling of spacers, springs, etc changed the camber by quite a bit, which would have worn my tires down a lot.

Firestone has a lifetime alignment deal for somewhere around $100. Just stop by anytime and they will check/re-align.

 

What lift did you get?

 

It is a Revtek. non-XREAS.

 

What do you mean but that? How do the other kits work differently to net a different lift or more/less sag?

As for the look, yeah they look sanded. If I had not wanted to install them so fast I could have wrinkle finished them and they would look as good as the others out there. What you see is basically the raw kit as they came out of the molds. The sanding is from sanding off the flashing that is present when molded plastic comes out of the molds. As I said above though, after driving in the rain for a day or two they will look just like they would if they were nice and smooth, they will be covered in the same dirt that covers the suspension and wheel well.

I will post more pics after they get a little dirty so I can see if I am correct, that they will look fine in the dirty wheel well. As for Anthony being a man of his word, I say that because he was to me and that is all I am saying. Everything Anthony told ME he would do he delivered on as he said he would except for one item. I can only judge Anthony based on his behavior towards me and that is what this is based on, and that alone. The one item he did not deliver on is he said he would paint the spacers and they are not. He did show up at my house with his hand in a cast though with a bad cut on a finger, a cut the he reopened while doing my install so I know it is real, stitches and all. He said the finger incident is what caused him to not be able to get my spacers painted, it sounded reasonable and I did not really care about having super pretty spacers since they will get grimy anyway. I cannot speak to anyone else’s experience with him as I was not there, I am simply highlighting my experience. Others have had bad experiences, started their own threads and discussed them at length.

Look guys, these spacers won’t fail, they won’t sag and they lifted my truck as I wanted. I am excited that I finally got my lift and wanted to share that excitement with others here on the board. I wanted to share my experience with the Pitman Arm Puller and my seized rear shock (how I removed it and that everyone should go grease theirs ASAP because if theirs are seized the suspension is not working properly). I also wanted to be honest about which kit I got and why. Why can’t you just be happy for me that I am happy and be happy that I was honest about which kit I got, that I posted pics of the kit for everyone to draw their own conclusions

 

:: hug :: i like it mang ! Im still parcial to my 3rd gen, but get some tires and armor on your's and it'll be bangin !

 

Duc,

I am happy for you! As I stated in my first email I am glad NE worked out for you. Your runner looks really good! My comment about NE's "handy work" is reference the spacer picture. It appears that the spacer is compressed and slightly bulging. It also appears to show very small cracks at the top. Additionally the topout spacer looks a little tweaked at the right side. That said...looks can be decieving. I am only comparing this to the way my spacers and top plate look (revtek).

So is NE doing a new design and polymer? Their website photos advertise perfectly symetrical spacers like revtek and daystar but the one in this picture looks mushroom shaped.

Again, no slight on you, your truck, or NE....the spacer picture just didn't look right to me. I posted pics of my 285s and my experience with rubbing to help you out on the tire size issue.

As I mentioned earlier, put the new tires on and wheel the heck out of it before aligning.

Cheers,

 

It's sad that I have to quote myself but...

Tell me the spacer is suppose to compress that much and look like a trapezoid? I say this because if you look at the left side of the spacer, it looks like it rubs (see MUD). That just shows that the spacer itself looks to be very soft.

Either way it doesn't matter to me as Cornfed has spacer now which I think is by far the best design. Apparently there's already a few on the road running them so I'm definitely going to pimp Cornfed for spacers

 

Duc, I have no idea why you have such a hard one for Anthony. I think it's good you are being honest- maybe some of it will rub off on NE. Everyone here is being honest too.

His homemade, ebay-bought poly mix, lopsided spacers look like corn-inbedded turds and I'm willing to bet your truck is lopsided front-to-back or side-to-side.

Someone selling suspension components doesn't know how to pull a shock w/o destroying it? That alone is pretty stupid.
That's a shock you could have sold for $ or reused later. Oh well, it's only money, time and your truck right? Did Anthony at least pay for it?

Ghetto-fab homemade crap or just buy a solid, proven, products from real companies w/ industry standards to conform to.
Daystar and Revtek- it isn't rocket science but it isn't ghetto-fab either. For the same $, I'll get ISO-standard spacers from companies that put more spacers on than Anthony brain-farts in a month.

Sorry if this is coming off harsh but you do a great disservice to yourself and (more importantly) to those that read YT.
NE/ Anthony consistanly lies, decieves and shows he knows nothing about automotive mechanics, design, fabrication or marketing. Everything he does seems dumber than the last, and that's pretty incredible when you think about the stupid crap he's pulled.

 

I've read all the stuff so far on the whole NE thing but have nothing to do with any of it so I'll leave those opinions to myself but seriously, from a 3rd perspective, you should at least get that looked at by a mechanic you trust. You may or may not believe in that what everyone is saying but it wont hurt just to get a neutral opinion, especially if it ends up saving your truck from disaster in the end. I'm in no way mechanically inclined but that spacer looks really messed up. Hell, I just asked my little sis what she thought of it and with NO knowledge whatsoever about cars said that it looks smushed and lopsided.

 

Duc Hunter,

No response?

Bob

 

sorry for my post, but i don't think you understand. just because he catered to you and came over and did all these things for you doesn't change the fact that you are in the minority as to your experiences with him. had we all been living near him, and had he been under the pressure he is now to not screw up with someone who will be brave enough to post about it, then i guarantee you it would be different for us too.

countless times i watched him do things unethically/crappily for the general public, and then put half a thought into things when he knew it was for someone that had a voice online in these forums. (notice i said HALF a thought) and countless times i saw someone on these forums complain about something and he then would make deals with them to give them a future discount as long as they promised not to speak up about their concerns. if someone who wasn't well-known on these forums made the same complaint, they were treated VERY differently and threatened with lawsuits and refused refunds.

you are lucky you got your kit when you did, because had he not been under the microscope and known you'd report back here in his favor, you would be singing a VERY different song right now.

good luck with your kit, i hope you remain happy with it and that it doesn't crack like mine did.

 

ive been reading this thread... whats the deal with this anthonaty dude? who is he.. is there an older thread on the guy I can look up and read ? I dont have his parts, i jsut wanna be nosey

 

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/show...6&page=1&pp=25

enjoy!

 

Actually, I'm not happy for you at all. I'm not happy for you because I consider NE's products to be dangerous. As such, I consider any vehicle running those products to be dangerous. As such, I consider YOUR vehicle to be dangerous.

Also, I am pretty suspicious of you personally. Your defense of NE, both here and elsewhere, is just a little too intense. With the OVERWHELMING number of personal testimonials and evidence against NE, you have been their absolute best friend, never having wavered even a little bit. Maybe you’re just one to give a business the benefit of the doubt until you yourself get burned, no matter what the evidence against them. Or maybe you’re just young and naïve.

Look at what you say above, for example. “these spacers won’t fail, they won’t sag…”. How can you possibly say that? You don’t know that. There is no way on earth you COULD know that. And, in fact, the pictures you posted of your spacers do look like they ARE sagging. And yet you STILL post that.

I don’t know what your relationship is with NE, but whatever it is, it’s just doesn’t sound like your opinion is anywhere near objective.

 

Lance, Could that spacer have been overtightened? Should look like this:


Or is it the bottom spacer that's out of shape which is being discussed? Is that a Revtek? Looks like softer poly than the Daystar.

 

Lars, that's the whole point - the spacers are made by NE - not Revtek or Daystar. The NE spacers are misshaped.