about to buy lift components. HELP!
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you arent going to get a good looking beefy truck with the MPGs of a prius so you just gotta get over tht part honestly. I deliver pizza and I just jacked up my truck, it took me awhile to just stop worrying about my mpg bc its not gunna change no matter how much I worry so I just enjoy my truck for what it is.
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What you want to do is going to look dang close to my truck. I went spindles,coil spacers,3"block and 5100s. I got the springtech 5.5 kit but used daystar coil spacers as the spingtech aluminum ones are junk. Then got new shocks from 4wheelparts. The coil spacers/spring sagged so my truck is back down to about 0.75" tail high from the level it was when i first installed the kit.
Go with spindles,2" lift coils, and 3" blocks. I run 305's too and with a little valence trimming they fit great and make the truck look beefy. My poor little 4.2l doesn't like heavy steel wheels and 33x12.5s so I might go to 4.10 but with a v8 3.73s will probably be low enough without going so low you loose mpg on the highway.
Its a little taller than a stock 4x4 but you can tell its lifted. I live in a city so I need to be able to get into drive throughs and parking garages so its the perfect height. Its big enough to tell and get around off road without looking like a so-cal flat biller with a huge lifted 2wd.
Do I want my truck higher? No. I want it leveled out again but not higher.I was going to put on fiberglass fenders to fit 35s at my current lift but they got stolen.
Go with spindles,2" lift coils, and 3" blocks. I run 305's too and with a little valence trimming they fit great and make the truck look beefy. My poor little 4.2l doesn't like heavy steel wheels and 33x12.5s so I might go to 4.10 but with a v8 3.73s will probably be low enough without going so low you loose mpg on the highway.
Its a little taller than a stock 4x4 but you can tell its lifted. I live in a city so I need to be able to get into drive throughs and parking garages so its the perfect height. Its big enough to tell and get around off road without looking like a so-cal flat biller with a huge lifted 2wd.
Do I want my truck higher? No. I want it leveled out again but not higher.I was going to put on fiberglass fenders to fit 35s at my current lift but they got stolen.
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What you want to do is going to look dang close to my truck. I went spindles,coil spacers,3"block and 5100s. I got the springtech 5.5 kit but used daystar coil spacers as the spingtech aluminum ones are junk. Then got new shocks from 4wheelparts. The coil spacers/spring sagged so my truck is back down to about 0.75" tail high from the level it was when i first installed the kit.
Go with spindles,2" lift coils, and 3" blocks. I run 305's too and with a little valence trimming they fit great and make the truck look beefy. My poor little 4.2l doesn't like heavy steel wheels and 33x12.5s so I might go to 4.10 but with a v8 3.73s will probably be low enough without going so low you loose mpg on the highway.
Its a little taller than a stock 4x4 but you can tell its lifted. I live in a city so I need to be able to get into drive throughs and parking garages so its the perfect height. Its big enough to tell and get around off road without looking like a so-cal flat biller with a huge lifted 2wd.
Do I want my truck higher? No. I want it leveled out again but not higher.I was going to put on fiberglass fenders to fit 35s at my current lift but they got stolen.
Go with spindles,2" lift coils, and 3" blocks. I run 305's too and with a little valence trimming they fit great and make the truck look beefy. My poor little 4.2l doesn't like heavy steel wheels and 33x12.5s so I might go to 4.10 but with a v8 3.73s will probably be low enough without going so low you loose mpg on the highway.
Its a little taller than a stock 4x4 but you can tell its lifted. I live in a city so I need to be able to get into drive throughs and parking garages so its the perfect height. Its big enough to tell and get around off road without looking like a so-cal flat biller with a huge lifted 2wd.
Do I want my truck higher? No. I want it leveled out again but not higher.I was going to put on fiberglass fenders to fit 35s at my current lift but they got stolen.
