The Immediate future has came...Truck is now Lifted!!!!!

Day started off with me pulling into the lift and my tire hitting the arm and blowing. I surely was hoping at this time that the rest of the day don't continue going the same way


With the truck on the lift we balanced the rear on 2 jacks and removed all OEM springs, shocks, radius arms and steering stabilizer


We are about to remove radius arms,took a break to get a shot without shocks and coils


Zones radius arms, coils, swaybar relocation brackets and tracbar relocation bracket and them Fox shocks installed


Now to the rear suspension, rear supported, coils and shocks and swaybar links removed


Fox shocks,Zone coils, swaybar links and tracbar relocation bracket installed


Truck coming fully together as my brother Keith takes a smoke break and the 20x10 -12 offset Fuel Hostages mounted on Federal Couragia 35x12.50x20 tires are put on the truck


Here is truck done outside our shop in Dundalk MD


And another angle in my Mothers driveway,I am quite happy with it.


aggressive stance, tires maybe out 1 1/2 inches, nothing some Bushwackers wouldn't take care of...

Looks very nice lifted..

First off, let me say the truck looks great. I like that your wheels aren't stuck out a mile.

I must ask though, and I've seen several others do it, why does everyone have the truck on a lift then roll around on the ground to do the rear springs? Seems to defeat the purpose. Haha

Dear god that truck is a beast!

ohiogrown said:

First off, let me say the truck looks great. I like that your wheels aren't stuck out a mile.

I must ask though, and I've seen several others do it, why does everyone have the truck on a lift then roll around on the ground to do the rear springs? Seems to defeat the purpose. Haha

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IMO we needed to be able to move the rears around a little , that being with the floor jacks we have in our shop, maybe others have different equipment but I really wouldn't want a 3/4 ton truck with 2 rears hanging around up far on a lift . To me this was the safest situation for us ..
How would you do it? And have you lifted your own truck in some other fashion? If so please share!!!!

I lowered my 2010 this week and I just used a pair of screw jacks. Same exact function and suppprt except it was chest high and super easy to work under. Either that or on lighter stuff I'll use my hydraulic transmission Jack but only having one makes it a little rougher to move each side individually.

We have a Bodyshop and our main focus is to fix wrecks,so we don't have the set-up that a full blown mechanical shop has,plus we have a very low ceiling which don't allow for us to put truck up all the high...My knees do hurt tonite and surely will be worst tomorrow,but I'll just take a peek out my door and look at that truck and they'll feel better!!!!

popjim52 said:

We have a Bodyshop and our main focus is to fix wrecks,so we don't have the set-up that a full blown mechanical shop has,plus we have a very low ceiling which don't allow for us to put truck up all the high...My knees do hurt tonite and surely will be worst tomorrow,but I'll just take a peek out my door and look at that truck and they'll feel better!!!!

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It gets the job done, that's what it's all about. I feel you on the low ceilings, mine are right at 12' so I have to close all my hoods or risk sending it to a guy like you when I crush one. Haha

Looks great man!

Heres one guys answer also why not to put the truck up very high on the lift....
Just When You Thought you were A Good Mechanic

Hah. That's just incompetence all across the board. What a nightmare.

Being a utilitarian I am not into lifted trucks for myself, but it looks pretty good. Good job!

Wow

Thats a beautiful truck congratulations and enjoy it!!

N1ck said:

Dear god that truck is a beast!

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Agreed!