body lift installed
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body lift installed - now with pics!
finally got around to installing my body lift. i made the pucks myself out of 2 3/4" UHMW rod I got cheap as a factory offcut. Total investment is about $20. I got the hardware for free (no idea why), the guy at the shop couldn't find me the right combinations so he just gave me a bunch of mixed plated and stainless hardware.. I showed up about 15 minutes before closing time so that may have had something to do with it.
No problems with the install; one of the captive washers on one of the bed bolts wasn't hitting anything and it's a real bear to get anything up there to grab ahold of the top of it - I ended up grinding the nut off. I mangled the threads in the steering shaft extension with my incompetence but I used a tap to fix them. I had an odd problem where my headlights turned on when I hit the brakes, but that turned out to be unrelated to the lift.
Total cost in tools was one 5/16 drill bit (three pieces!), one chuck key (no idea where that went..), one trouble light I smashed in frustration (cheap chinese crap), and my impact bit the dust for a brief period (wierdly, and it worked again about 5 minutes later).
For anyone contemplating this, it's a pretty easy project and 4Crawler's instructions are first rate. Thanks for all the help with this project, everyone
No problems with the install; one of the captive washers on one of the bed bolts wasn't hitting anything and it's a real bear to get anything up there to grab ahold of the top of it - I ended up grinding the nut off. I mangled the threads in the steering shaft extension with my incompetence but I used a tap to fix them. I had an odd problem where my headlights turned on when I hit the brakes, but that turned out to be unrelated to the lift.
Total cost in tools was one 5/16 drill bit (three pieces!), one chuck key (no idea where that went..), one trouble light I smashed in frustration (cheap chinese crap), and my impact bit the dust for a brief period (wierdly, and it worked again about 5 minutes later).
For anyone contemplating this, it's a pretty easy project and 4Crawler's instructions are first rate. Thanks for all the help with this project, everyone
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after tires:
and a real bad before pic:
sorry for the ghetto cell phone pics. why are the camera batteries always dead when you need to take pictures of a truck? :/
and a real bad before pic:
sorry for the ghetto cell phone pics. why are the camera batteries always dead when you need to take pictures of a truck? :/
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