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Cheapest Lift?

Old May 21, 2007
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Cheapest Lift?

does anyone know where i can find the cheapest lift kit? a body lift would be fine, i'm just doing it for the looks
 
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Old May 21, 2007
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Summit probably has the cheapest production body kit. Probably around $150 for a 3".

Now granted if that is too much still you could go with a hockey puck lift.... but that's an entirely different argument. Needless to say I wouldn't do the hockey puck thing. Just wouldn't feel save. The way I see it is if $150 is too much money, you should probably just not look into modifying your truck. Cause it's only going to get more expensive.
 
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Old May 21, 2007
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lol thanks. i mainly just want to lift the front, so i might even just go with a leveling kit
 
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Old May 21, 2007
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Don't you have torsion bars? If so, you could just crank them a little bit to get a couple inches.
 
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Old May 21, 2007
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If you have a coil sprung truck....i'm sure they have a small polyeurothane leveling kit for it.

If you have torsion bars....crank them bars!!

You could always do the $61 1" body lift mod.
 
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Old May 21, 2007
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ya, i have coil springs...id like to get atleast 2 inches more in the front
 
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for 2"....pretty much your option is a spindle. I think they make about 1" or 1.5" coil spacers....but that may just be the ibeam trucks.
 
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Old Jan 14, 2009
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i got coils in the front and you can get soil spacer that look like horseshoes and a 1 1/2'' spacer gives you about 3'' of lift because of the angle. and then you can do 2'' shackles in the back. cost me about $78
 
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Old Jan 14, 2009
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Originally Posted by Fx4wannabe01
You could always do the $61 1" body lift mod.
Whats that one? The hockey puck?
 
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Old Jan 14, 2009
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Originally Posted by Goodysgotacuda
Whats that one? The hockey puck?
im intrigued about this too
 
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Old Jan 14, 2009
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Buy a bodylift. $129.95 at summit.

Or coils for about $100

Or spacers for about $80
 
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Old Jan 14, 2009
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Just body lift the front!





lol kidding.

Just find you some spacers since it will be for looks. Then again I know people that wheel the crap out of truck with spacers and have no problems.


EDIT: Will F150 coils fit on the TIB rangers?
 
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Old Jan 15, 2009
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From what I remember goody, the hockey puck is the same as a body lift, but you just drill holes in the puck.
 
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Old Jan 15, 2009
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Originally Posted by elementsenjoi
Just body lift the front!





lol kidding.

Just find you some spacers since it will be for looks. Then again I know people that wheel the crap out of truck with spacers and have no problems.


EDIT: Will F150 coils fit on the TIB rangers?
I LOL'd at the 'just body lift the front' Thanks for the laugh today! haha
 
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Old Jan 15, 2009
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try suspension connection.com thats were i got mine
 
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Old Jan 15, 2009
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no the hockey puck is a super cheap body lift, instead of the black 3'' round spacers you get in teh body lift you use hockey pucks. my kit was fifty bucks and i got it from some guys store on ebay and i found the shackles for the back on another site if i figure out where ill let you know. hte shackles were $22 and the spacers were like $55 or something. anyway i lifted it about 3'' in the front and 2'' in the back and you can't see through the back of the truck like with a body lift and its way easier to install. took about four hours total
 
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