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What are people using for upper coil retainer after using these rough country coils?
 


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Superlift sells them... Or hell just make 'em yourself with some 3/16" strip steel.


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I used the stock ones.
 

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What stock ones? :icon_confused:


You mean F-150 ones?
 

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You know what? I was thinking of an F150! Just took a look at my B2 and it doesn't have them at all. I replaced both shock/spring towers an a customers F150 around the same time I installed the lift on my B2. Must have got them mixed up.
 

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4x4 junkie, what's that little black shock looking thing in your pic of the coil retainers? It looks stock
 

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I use a hose clamp. I've never had one break on me flexing the suspension. It may look loose in the photo, but that is just the excess material wrapping back around. It's a cheap, simple, and effective solution.
 

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I ran hose clamps for 9 years....never broke one either.

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I also used hose clamps, had coils coming out left and right when I first lifted the truck. Never had an issue after that. It doesn't take much to keep them in place. Hose clamps are the shit for a lot of things.
 

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I broke my hose clamp thanksgiving weekend. They did hold up for 8 years though. I'm gonna make some like junkie's here before I go out again.
 

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