Torsion key question
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Body Lift.. it's cheap, easy, reliable and your truck will ride the same, except taller. Getting taller lift keys and cranking those is just stupid. Have fun tearing through front end parts.
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Body lifts look fine on Rangers. They are cheap and don't mess with suspension geometry. If the TINY bit of frame that shows from the body lift bothers you, fork out the money for the super lift which also doesn't mess with suspension geometry.
Or you can be dumb and get lift keys and then have to constantly replace front suspension parts which will get expensive really fast. The choice is yours.
Or you can be dumb and get lift keys and then have to constantly replace front suspension parts which will get expensive really fast. The choice is yours.
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Body lifts look fine on Rangers. They are cheap and don't mess with suspension geometry. If the TINY bit of frame that shows from the body lift bothers you, fork out the money for the super lift which also doesn't mess with suspension geometry.
Or you can be dumb and get lift keys and then have to constantly replace front suspension parts which will get expensive really fast. The choice is yours.
Or you can be dumb and get lift keys and then have to constantly replace front suspension parts which will get expensive really fast. The choice is yours.
#16
I was assuming that he doesn't mess with the tbars if he did a body lift or super lift. If he did crank them, then obviously that would change the geometry. But just those two kits alone don't mess with it.
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The driveshaft has nothing to do with how the suspension behaves or cycles in this application. I'm talking suspension only... i.e. Control arm angles and what not. The driveshaft is a completely different topic when the focus is on the wear of ball joints, cv axles, and TRE's. My point is that the super lift won't cause additional wear to those components than a stock suspension truck would.
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The driveshaft has nothing to do with how the suspension behaves or cycles in this application. I'm talking suspension only... i.e. Control arm angles and what not. The driveshaft is a completely different topic when the focus is on the wear of ball joints, cv axles, and TRE's. My point is that the super lift won't cause additional wear to those components than a stock suspension truck would.
I know what you mean though. I just include the drivetrain angles as part of the overall geometry
#20
Yeah I see what you mean about the u joints. I was just comparing how keys would effect the components involved with suspension movement vs how the super lift would effect them.
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Since when does drivetrain mean suspension? No one is disagreeing that a super lift effects drive line angles. But that's easily fixed.
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Thank you lol the driveshaft has nothing to do with suspension IMO. That's a drive train problem. It has nothing to do with the cycling of the suspension haha
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Anyways, no matter what lift you do there will be wear on parts. Whether it's from messing with torsion lift keys or just wear from bigger tires, parts will wear out. Or even the driveshaft like you said from the super lift causing the larger angle. I think we can all agree on this.
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if you have a 4in superlift and raise the torsion bar a little to level truck out, would that cause any problems? I just found out the other day my superlift driveshaft took a ****. Less than 5000 miles on this driveshaft. Superlift is sending me a new one, but im wondering if raising the tbar a bit caused the driveshaft failure. Tbar is only raised a hair to level truck. thats it.
Last edited by deathstar88; 03-15-2015 at 03:12 PM.