Rancho shock question

Love the 9000XL

Yep, grease them up with marine grease when you get them. Mine still turn great after being moved from 2 trucks and 5 years later. Rancho 9000's are the best way to go IMHO.

Compare the size of the two shocks, the 9000 is huge and has a lot of dampening ability along with the adjustment.

Rancho 9000's have 9 points of adjustment. I also do the same as jimh425 and am quite happy with them. After a few years they can be hard to adjust though if you don't get some white grease in behind the dials.

I had a 2006 F350, and the Rancho 9000s provided significant more dampening than the stock Rancho shocks that were nearly new that come with the FX4. So much dampening that the truck wanted to bounce out of a gravel road on turns when I had them on the TC loaded setting. I didn’t do that again. ;)

I ran Front 3- Rear 1 empty and Front 6 -Rear 9 with camper on. Of course, what you find that works the best will be up to you, but the adjustability is very good.

I put Bilstein 4600s on my F450 which is a pretty plush ride, but empty vs TC doesn’t feel that much different on the much heavier F450.