im curious to how some people have like 20" lifts and above just in general huge lifts wether everything is custom or just how to do it and maybe realistic costs if anyone had some advice or insight that'd be great thanks

 

well, the first thing you do is take the front driveshaft off and throw it in the garbage.
then you trailer it to the mall and hide the tow rig behind the mall. take it off the trailer and put the big tires on it, drive it to the mall entrance, and park it near the door to attract teenagers you can BS with your stories of daredevelry and massive horsepower.

 

seriously now.

trucks with stupid lift are all show, and no go.
they can not pass a tilt test, so are not road legal.
the ones that are not for show are usually used for deep mud/swamp driving like the Florida mud buggies. they have huge lifts with skinny tractor tires to get down in the mud for traction.

 

BGLT.........

 

Buy a treated 4x4 and some allthread to bend for ubolts. BGTL is cheap.

 

NJ is the only ghey azz state that has that stupid tilt test :flip

 

^^ He speaks truf, i had never heard of it

 

and for good reason. have you ever seen the crap they build up here?

8 feet to the bottom of the kick panels and 44 inch tires.

you make a turn over 25 mph and it falls over on it's side.
the folks up here that "build" these trucks have way more money than brains.

 

there is a few truck's around here running 44's on the Highway, the scarey part is one of the guy's does it for a living, and his F-150 setting on 44's is not as wide as my 97 cause his rims are completely inset, there is another guy around here that has one but it is 102" wide which is the most your allowed to have with out wide load banner's... plus he barely has enough to clear them, it's a K5 and i bet he dont have 8" lift on it

 

I plan on running 40" boggers all over MD like a BAWS when motor is done.

only have 4" of lift though

 

swallow sadness... like a BAWS

 

Hacked :sadpanda:

 

sic semper tyrannis

 

with the language that was in there, if i left that up Carlene would have done really nasty things to both of us, and you know it!!

 

Come on people, FordFan asked a legitimate question. He's a new user, like me, and you stomp all over his thread like this? I'm pretty quickly coming to the conclusion that I want nothing to do with the Offroad & 4x4 forum here. It seems to be mostly a small group of close friends treating it like it's a closed Facebook group.

FordFan, from what I know all huge lifts (really probably anything over about 6 - 8 inches) is all custom. It might involve sticking a bunch of different lifts together, but whatever is done isn't really based on the engineering the lift companies put into it, so it better be enginered by whoever is putting it together.

As TJC said (rather crudely I think, especially for someone wh is supposed to be a moderator here), big lifts usually aren't streetable. There are usually some laws that they don't comply with (headlight height, bumper height, apparently tilt tests). And they usually aren't safe.

Personally, for street, trails and rocks I like a 2-3" lift, but a lot of 4 - 6" lifts work pretty well too. I'd be really careful with anything even that high if you plan to drive it on the street.

If you're thinking about an off-road only truck, try to find a group that runs trucks you are interested in and see what they do. I've got a friend with a Chevy S-10 on 56" tires that don't come up to the bottoms of the rockers. It works really well in mud. I don't know how he built it, but it looks like a lot of fun.