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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 06:49 PM
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lifting bumper 3"
Hello i have recently done a 3" body lift on my 1985 ford f-150.
what is the best way to lift the bumper now.(front one.)
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 06:54 PM
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What your body lift didn't come with the super cool, super strong tabs to raise the bumper up? If not, get some steel and make you a set of brackets to move it up. Just keep in mind that once you move it from the original location, it becomes more of a show piece, unless you built the heck out of those spacer brackets.
 
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 07:46 PM
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the best way to make the bumper even is..........




















take those round black hockey pucks back off.

lol...i keed
 
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 08:33 PM
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ya depends, if you want your bumber to be strong or not. i just had a extra piece of 1" pipe laying around cut two 3" sections out and got longer bolts and stuck it on...not strong, but i build and actcual functional bumber with hook and winch mount on it. but my orginial one looks good though.
 
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by quadzjr
the best way to make the bumper even is..........


take those round black hockey pucks back off.

Originally Posted by quadzjr

only **** run bodylifts.

 
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 08:56 PM
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lol, not to mention rocks on blocks.....
 
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At least he has the blocks facing the correct way..
 
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hey bish, ive said it plenty of times in the past, it was when i was young and dumb, it will be removed.....
i dont need no damn body lift
 
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well their not hockey pucks its a trailmaster kit that i put on. and no it did not come with brackets.Reason for putting on a body lift was just to fit a taller tire. made sence to me you know instead of dumping 1500 into suspension lift. other words i spend 120 and it did the job needed.
 
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Don't buy kits and you'll spend a lot less lifting that suspension.
 
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Originally Posted by quadzjr
hey bish, ive said it plenty of times in the past, it was when i was young and dumb,
So the only thing that has changed is you are older now....
 
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yeah pretty much.......and now i have $$$$$ to do it right
 
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prostitute?
 
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i am that good....
 
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i am that good....
to buy a prostitute? I think any schmuck with $$ in their hand is good at that.
 
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