Who's lifted???
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On ebay under ford ranger lift kits. They have a 3" lift that has rear add a leafs and front torsion keys for 239.00$. It's a lot cheaper than the 1,500.00$ starting price for a regular suspension lift for the the t-bar suspension trucks.
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A bit embarrassed to ask and I've been wanting to know for a long time.....but am I lifted? When I look behind the rear wheels, installed between the axle and the leaf spring is a metal block. It is not solid but an open rectangular block that spaces the leaf spring about 3" above the axle. I am the second owner and the truck was not advertised as lifted. I am curious if these blocks were standard on the off road package to allow the bigger wheels.
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A bit embarrassed to ask and I've been wanting to know for a long time.....but am I lifted? When I look behind the rear wheels, installed between the axle and the leaf spring is a metal block. It is not solid but an open rectangular block that spaces the leaf spring about 3" above the axle. I am the second owner and the truck was not advertised as lifted. I am curious if these blocks were standard on the off road package to allow the bigger wheels.
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My mileage dropped zero with the big tires, but oddly, dropped about .5 mpg with the lift. I'm going to attribute that to the new double-carden U-joint front driveshaft that the lift required. It must have a bit more "rolling" (rotating?) resistance.
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By just cranking the t-bars leveing the truck will allow you to run up to a 33" tire, I wouldn't want to run anything bigger than that. Anything bigger and you will starting needing to swap gears and what have you. The advantage a full suspension lift will have over a t-bar crank oof course would be better articulation off/road for the serious and extreme wheeler. The t-bar crank does well on the trails and it helps to have a good off/road shock. The level II's had bilstiens and I ordered my 09 with rancho's. I don't do any boulder bashing, so my setup works realy well for trail riding, mud and hill climbing. Large rocks would make her grunt as I don't have the articulation that a real lift kit would provide, but for the price of a lift kit, I'll live with it.
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lil ms. innocent
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By just cranking the t-bars leveing the truck will allow you to run up to a 33" tire, I wouldn't want to run anything bigger than that. Anything bigger and you will starting needing to swap gears and what have you. The advantage a full suspension lift will have over a t-bar crank oof course would be better articulation off/road for the serious and extreme wheeler. The t-bar crank does well on the trails and it helps to have a good off/road shock. The level II's had bilstiens and I ordered my 09 with rancho's. I don't do any boulder bashing, so my setup works realy well for trail riding, mud and hill climbing. Large rocks would make her grunt as I don't have the articulation that a real lift kit would provide, but for the price of a lift kit, I'll live with it.