Actually, everyone complaining about everyone in here giving good advice is making all the knowledgable people want to leave, so what would the forum be with a bunch of ingnorant people asking 'what's the biggest body lift I can put?'
With noone smart enough to tell him he's crazy, then he'll get a response and say I heard of someone putting a 10" lift, and then there will be someone with a 10" body lift made of 1.5" PVC on the road, headed straight for you...... I sure don't want that, sounds like all the complainers do though!

I'm going to do one of two things ignore the STUPID questions, or Give them the answer they should hear!

 

That's fine. And I am not complaining about anyone giving good advice - which you certainly do. I just don't think you need to insult the guy by telling him to go crawl the mall. That's all I'm saying.

 

well im sorry that i dont go out and wheel all the time but I do like to!!! I have taken my truck out several occasions and went mudding but i know that if i want to run that big of a tire that one of two things has to happen... either i do a sas or i make it a mall crawler and just have it for show... i picked the mall crawler way cause i like to see people gaze at my truck and other stuff. I like to build things for show but didnt know how to for this truck and thought I would try to get some info on what all other people have done so I dont do the mistake they did. i know it sounds kinda stupid to have a truck that tall and not take it mudding but i know if i do and i have all this money tied up in it, then i know something will break and i dont want to go through tearing it down again just to fix the problem that could have been prevented from the start...


well thats my opinion...

 

Easy there tiger. Im doing a 4wd conversion on the crew and goin with a tire upwards of 38" and its not goin off road.

 

this is the problem, you say you want it for the street but we all know it will go offraod exspecially ifyour 24. some girl with say hey sweet truck and your gonna be like look what it can do!!! then your gonna break something because its not used to being abused. then your gonna think you can make it home cause its a street truck. then the family in the other lane is coming straight at you when your front end fails in some way and you swerve hitting them straight on, maybe they live, maybe they die either way you will live cause it was yoiur fault thats how things work. we are telling you the safe route not the route that we think is best it is the route that we know is best and safest for all motorist on the road.

 

I have said that i wouldnt do something and then a girl comes along and i do differently once or twice in my life but im not going to do that again... I have learned from my mistakes and want to try to be as safe as possible on the road while still having fun. I dont want anything to break as much as the next guy but im not going to go out and bash it around and expect it to hold up either...(plus I dont have the money to fix it all the time).

 

I'm wasn't argueing with the OP, just the one argueing with me, and that's why I said to go play in the mall parking lot (which most times I talk about that, I'm being sarcastic and having fun, not being an AS*).



Simple safe comment: 40" tires on stock 1/2 ton axles= bad/booom!

 

dont waste the time lifting or larger tires if its a street queen...whats the point in running large offroad tires on the street



-my opinion-

 

I guess the main reason is i want my work that i do to things to be seen... so what better way for people to see what i have done than to drive it on the street... and i want something that is different than the other person on the road and i think this setup or something like what i have been talking about will be something that you dont see that much of...

 

Nothing wrong with doing something different if its well thought out and actually different. What you want to do is go the cheap route and become a potential safety hazard to yourself and others on the road. That and you'll just get laughed at by anyone that knows anything about these trucks. So I'm not really following your reasoning.

4 link and bag if you want something thats not that common on the street. it'll ride extra smooove

 

i read this again and seems no one has even mentioned the idea of brakes. if i remember right this is a 1/2 ton for a street truck only running 38 39 in tires your braking distance is greatly extended, thats if you doit right, 8.8 brakes and a single piston calipers. i don't care if you break ujoints, or gears, but your rolling down the road and my daughter runs out in front of you you hit the brakes can't stop, swerve, snap a spindle off and kill my daughter, guess who's at fault, you, not us for picking on you or insulting you, bottom line it is not safe, period, show truck, trailer queen, yes, back yard beater yes, hard core mud truck no, street truck no, just because they sell a lift for it doesn't make it right, just common sense, you want big tires be ready to pay to upgrade everything, its not easy bolting on a lift and tires. sorry about the rant guys, sore spot.

 

What kind of brakes are you running? Just curious.

 

Exactly as ive said, its corvettes ultimate decision in the end. No one is telling him to run an obscene amount of body lift, but a 3 inch would be ok, i dont care what anyone says, if you use the proper hardware (grade 8) it aint going to cause any problems.

The go play the mall comment, well, thats what he has said he wants to do, NOT MUD IT...

Anything he is planning on doing with this truck will not be cause of wreckless abandon, there is a lot worse rolling around today, and any truck that you go mud will be a greater risk to drive on the road whether youve spent all the money or not, you take it and beat on it then drive it down the road, you increase the likelyhood of an accident... Not to mention most guys dont run mudflaps thus increasing the chance of throwing a rock into someones windshield... I wont even go anyfurther on that one, lol.

Also for the record, i have seen many more than just one ttb setup running bigger than 36 inch tires. As well as being in the pacific northwest where we have every terrain possible in the whole world ( clay, goop, sand, rocks, dirt, gumbo mud, snow, ice, etc. etc. oh well we dont have frozen tundra... You get the point) These front ends hold up to a whole lot more than a lot of guys are saying. I have seen these front ends fail before but i have also seen them fail on a stock truck... Not saying much for them? No, its just the fact that if you care for the truck and do rutine maintenance it will greatly improve the odds. Also, if i start hearing noises, i find out where its from and fix it. I dont wait till it breaks...

As for the breaking issues. The stock breaks would be a little labored and Good aftermarket pads should be used. But also if that guys daughter ran out in front of you, it wouldnt be your fault for hitting her if she ran out RIGHT IN FRONT OF you. The parent would take all the blame on that one for not watching there kid well enough.

Also, last, but not least, I can back up all this info i have been giving in picture form. We have tons of pictures of the truck running 37s on the street, in the rocks, in the mud buried, as we were builing the truck, as it sits today, etc... And im sure we could even muster up some video some how to show it in action, thus proving that fact that it does get "wheeled."

Im not just some punk pulling stories out his a$$, and i will prove it to anyone who doubts me.

 

Exactly as ive said, its corvettes ultimate decision in the end. No one is telling him to run an obscene amount of body lift, but a 3 inch would be ok, i dont care what anyone says, if you use the proper hardware (grade 8) it aint going to cause any problems.



just because its grade 8 dont mean a damn thing. when you stress the entire truck past what its built for i dont care if its welded by the best damn welder in the world its gonna break. metal is not industructable. it can and will fatigue over a point of time. this is what we are trying to say yeah it might work for afew weeks but in the end it will break and its going to be going down the street. the 3 inch body lift aint what everyone is worried about its the 8 inch lift and 40 ich tires on an axle that isnt capiable of holding it much less stopping it. the street is much harder on something like this then a mild trail most of the time. think of it like this: your puttin down the trail at 15mph and hit a bump and slide on the loose dirt no big deal. but say your doin 70 down the highway and hit a bump the truck jumps and when you slam back down theres no give in pavement and something snaps. which one you think is gonna be worse.

sorry for the long post but there is nothing safe about this
tony

 

actually its the responsability of a parent to keep an eye on his kid but its the responsability of the driver to have control of they're vehicle at all times, wether its a stop light, a car pulling out or a kid running in front of you, its the drivers fault. complete control at all times.if his kid ran in front of me it would be my fault. thats the way i works, i'm not riding him or insulting him its areal concern, it sounds as if he wants big tire period, so its cool, never did he mention upgrading brakes, if he had i wouldn't have brought it up, i know alot of meatheads that have to have the big cool tires, and never upgade anyhing, they're running 20 yr old ball joints, old ujoints, wheel bearings and brakes, so don't take my words as insults or teasing or being mean. it all depends on how old he is and how responsable he is, as far as we know he's 18 yrs old in hs, think about how responsable you were at 18, if you had a choice between shiny new wheels and tires or brakes which one would you have picked? what state in corvette from? is it even legal in his state to run that kind of lift and tire? just things to think about