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

 

Wheres the pics?

 

 

my garage is too small to take pics.. 1" isn't much of a difference anyways. i'll snap some later today when i get the 33s mounted up

 

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? :/