I have a 1988 F150 Supercab Longbed. I want to lift it, but because of the length of it, I dont know if I want a 4", 6", or 8". I dont know what would look better. I will decide tire size by what lift I chose. Please reply with opinions, and pics of this model lifted if you have any. Thanks.

 

Id go with a six inch lift, my friend has a 89 F150 supercab and has a 6 inch lift with 35 bfg KM2 tires and looks sick! I myself am gonna put a 6 inch lift on my 89 F250 regular cab

 

Make sure you add some bracing to the crossmember where the drop brackets bolt to. If you dont it will crack. Or you could just get some cut and turned beams and not worry about it.

 

First thing's first. What do you want to do with the truck? Small lift and tires is less work and the truck is still somewhat practical. Big lift and tires means lots of work, money, and maybe even fabrication to make it work plus it makes it a PITA to load it to do regular truck chores.

We would have to know what your plans for the truck are before we could suggest a route to take, the better idea we have of how the truck will be used the better advice we can give.

 

Do you have pics of your friends truck by chance?

 

Thanks for the advise.

 

I want it somewhat practical. But I want it to look beefy as well, it looks too small right now because it is so long and so low. It might be offroading on some simple trails, I need just enough ground clearance to get over dips, small logs, stuff like that. But its mainly for show.

 

I would say 4" of lift and 35" tires is about the most you want. That will raise the truck a total of six inches off the ground so hopefully it'll still be easy enough to actually do stuff with but will give you more than enough off road ability. You will have to re-gear though.

 

Yeah, that sounds about right. I do want to see if anyone has pictures of my model with that lift just because i am not sure how it would look because of the truck's length.Thanks