Yes, you are confused.
You called Brian, right? and asked him about just the spring hangers without the crossbar, right? If so you put the wrong price down. It's not a catalog item which is why I described it.
I don't care for Brian's shackles, but YMMV, and welding a brace on them is no big deal (in which case his shackles are quite affordable). He uses DOM for the shackle hanger, and cuts large washers to mimic the factory setup as he should. If you fab these yourself there's more savings; if not, his kit becomes the most affordable out there if you follow my suggestion (kit = spring/shackle hanger kit, not the whole mess).
There are MUCH cheaper ways to do a quality SAS than using the all-in-one kits. All while doing the right thing.
Maybe its our definition of a "kit" that we are disagreeing on. I am saying that a trail-gear
SAS kit is the least expensive, and so far no one has proven otherwise. I 100% agree with you that there are cheaper ways to get a spring hanger kit, but unfortunately you need more than a spring hanger for a SAS. Its not like you can just weld the hanger and shackle tubes in and call'er done. If you want to do a full SAS with new parts then as far as I can tell Trail-Gear is the least expensive way to go. PLEASE post up if you know how to piece together a cheaper kit, because if you get enough parts to do a full SAS adding up to <$1100 I would like to look into it when my time comes.
As for trail-gear's quality, three of my best friends here are running TG SAS parts on there trucks and I have not seen a single problem with the TG parts. As for TG's service: just last week one of these friends managed to snap a bilstein shock in half. He bought it from TG back in the spring. He shipped the 1 broken shock back to TG and they sent him TWO brand new ones.
I don't want this to be a big argument or anything.. I really am interested in other less expensive options other than TG.. but if its between $1100 and $1600 for BASICALLY the same exact stuff.. Ima spend $1100.
-Scerb
