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Hmmm, you might want to post that question here, they can tell you:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16
But seriously, body lifts are kind of deceptive in my opinion. Sure, its easy enough to stick the pucks in but then nothing matches up right and you've got a bunch of fiddeling to do. To be honest, I hate them. But, if you are handy around the shop you shouldn't have any problems.
Oh, I was kidding about asking that question there. Unless your a masochist.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=16
But seriously, body lifts are kind of deceptive in my opinion. Sure, its easy enough to stick the pucks in but then nothing matches up right and you've got a bunch of fiddeling to do. To be honest, I hate them. But, if you are handy around the shop you shouldn't have any problems.
Oh, I was kidding about asking that question there. Unless your a masochist.
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Dangit, who let jeremy get to the crackpipe this time!? 
Yes, as said, a body lift can be done quickly and easily.
But, also as has been said, to do it right the devils in the details.
I assume we weren't talking about just stuffing some chunks of 2x4s under the springs and calling it good were we?
Yes, as said, a body lift can be done quickly and easily.
But, also as has been said, to do it right the devils in the details.
I assume we weren't talking about just stuffing some chunks of 2x4s under the springs and calling it good were we?
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Ran out of crack.....nothing but radiation for me.
BTW...I got a new job at the South Austin Cancer Center in the Radiation Oncology dept as a Medical Physicist.....just so the above comment makes sense.
BTW...I got a new job at the South Austin Cancer Center in the Radiation Oncology dept as a Medical Physicist.....just so the above comment makes sense.
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Maybe you'll develop some cool mutant powers! Would beat just a hump in your back anywho 
Tye, what amount of body lift were you talking about anyways. That affects overall difficulty of the "little" stuff.
Tye, what amount of body lift were you talking about anyways. That affects overall difficulty of the "little" stuff.
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As mods go, not hard at all, a one person job. The worse thing is dealing with rust on vehicles driven in a salt area with rotted out mounts.
Personally, I avoid the black stilts were possible and go with one solid bushing or block of metal that is as thick as the original rubber mount, plus, the additional lift. Basically a make it yourself job for most older trucks.
I like to go 1 to 2 inches max, though I usually box my frame with my bumpers so my frame flexes less then most.
Like how I did with my BII pictured here.
It has a two inch body lift, though the frame is boxed inside a 6 x 3 x 1/4 steel tube so the frame does not flex/twist as much because when it does that off-road the fan would hit the radiator. Luckily the old brittle plastic fan blades on a BII break before the radiator does.
If you lift a BII with a body lift you are almost guaranteed the driver's side floor pan will rip when the body gets twisted. Which is why a body lift ends up being a cheap, but, bad idea over the long run. It takes a lot to get it right and by that time its done a suspension lift would have been better.
Personally, I avoid the black stilts were possible and go with one solid bushing or block of metal that is as thick as the original rubber mount, plus, the additional lift. Basically a make it yourself job for most older trucks.
I like to go 1 to 2 inches max, though I usually box my frame with my bumpers so my frame flexes less then most.
Like how I did with my BII pictured here.
It has a two inch body lift, though the frame is boxed inside a 6 x 3 x 1/4 steel tube so the frame does not flex/twist as much because when it does that off-road the fan would hit the radiator. Luckily the old brittle plastic fan blades on a BII break before the radiator does.
If you lift a BII with a body lift you are almost guaranteed the driver's side floor pan will rip when the body gets twisted. Which is why a body lift ends up being a cheap, but, bad idea over the long run. It takes a lot to get it right and by that time its done a suspension lift would have been better.
