Look street doctor. you have a 4th gen Ram that runs a coil over wishbone independent style suspension...IFS for short.
It is nothing like a coil sprung 4 link suspension solid front axle on a 2nd gen 4x4 Ram. And what works on your truck will not always work on ours. Your wheel and tire combo would likely hit the 4 link arms. You don't have those on your truck. Thats why lift/suspension triangulation/motion and wheel offset are important on our trucks. Your comments suggest you have't a clue that our front axles travel in an arc, while your system moves up and down...EDIT, I apologise your axles move in an arc but it is vertical to the frame.
Even if the OP has a 2wd 2nd gen, the types of lifts for a double wishbone coil suspension would not allow larger than 33 inch tires without changing the control arms and/or spindles which means 17 inch wheel/tires. I urge you to google Fabtechs' site and read up on 2nd gen 2wd lifts.
In fact, based on your age alone...how do I say this nicely....when you were 16 I had purchsed my Ram and started lifting it...along with several of my buds. Actually this is my 2nd 2nd gen... I had a '97 ext cab.
Please retain your current wisdom to the 4th gen forums.
EDIT 2: After looking up streetdoctors tire specs I now realize he is telling us we can stuff what amounts to a 35x12.5 tire under a 2nd gen with a 2.5 level. Oh if it were only true! I would have had 35s back in 2002...Couldn't have driven the truck anywhere off road except a well maintained gravel road. Turning a full arc....(snicker)
And now I understand why kids who just bought a used 2nd gen want to put 35s on with virtually no lift, probably because the guys with newer trucks are doing so. Sorry young'ns...