Who has BIG tires on their 1st gen?
i got it all finished on monday, what i did on the front spring was take the rear bracket off which is a piece of flat strap about 4 inches long with 2 holes drilled in it, its the piece that the springs bolts to in the rear, i replaced it with a piece of 3/8's flat strap 1.5 inches longer,
and on the rear springs again i took the back bracket off and since the spring is above the bracket i actually had to make shorter brackets so it will sit higher, i followed the factory bends and drilled the 3/8's metal to the same diamater holes as before,
i decided to only lift the truck 1.5 inches because anything after that the tires started looking to small
my plan is once i wear out my 37s what i plan on doing is ordering the skyjacker 6 inch full spring replacements and keep the factory 6 inch block or i might go down to a 4 inch block that way ill have the 6 inch lift springs plus another 4-6 inches on top of that, and then ill get a set of custom springs for the truck and ill probablly run 44'' tires
and on the rear springs again i took the back bracket off and since the spring is above the bracket i actually had to make shorter brackets so it will sit higher, i followed the factory bends and drilled the 3/8's metal to the same diamater holes as before,
i decided to only lift the truck 1.5 inches because anything after that the tires started looking to small
my plan is once i wear out my 37s what i plan on doing is ordering the skyjacker 6 inch full spring replacements and keep the factory 6 inch block or i might go down to a 4 inch block that way ill have the 6 inch lift springs plus another 4-6 inches on top of that, and then ill get a set of custom springs for the truck and ill probablly run 44'' tires
i got a set of 40's slapped on my truck with 4" suspension and 3" body lift, they fit good for road but not so well in the rough stuff, fenders will get a beating. im buying a set of 38's this week comming up. the pics area bit dark
I've had 36 14.50 TSLs on my 92 with 6" 37 12.50s on my 93 with 4" and 16/38.5s on my 440 truck with 3" and cutout flares.
Watch out running longer shackles on the front axle. Without shimming it, you'll probably get some pretty serious u-joint bind.
Watch out running longer shackles on the front axle. Without shimming it, you'll probably get some pretty serious u-joint bind.
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