I finally got around to getting pics on the web of my truck with the 1.5" RB BL and Sliderz installed. Things have been a little crazy with having a baby and all (see https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f5/its-girl-35320/).

Anyway, the install of the body lift went pretty smoothly. I did run into 2 minor complications of note. With the 5spd, after the BL was installed I couldn't shift into reverse and it wouldn't stay in 2nd or 4th. This was due to the stick shift hitting the metal plate that holds the shift boots in place. This issue was resolved with some trimming of the plate. The second issue was that after the body lift the e-brake was very tight. It was hard to tell whether it was actually engaging the brake at all, but this was easily resolved by loosening the cable at the e-brake assembly. Without doing this it may have caused some wear on the rear brakes.

I modified the TJM bumper to close the gap between the bumper and the body. I did this by elongating the holes in the bumper to allow it to move higher. As it sits now there is about a .75" gap between the bumper and body which is quite acceptable in my book.

The sliderz were bolted on with self-threading bolts. Other than the amount of work required to attach them this way, everything went smoothly.

Now on to the pics.

Before:





After:















I have since made gap guards to cover all of the gaps that were a result of the body lift. The install looks very clean. Now I just have to get my 285/75/16s mounted up.

 

Lookin good! Are you going to raise the front bumper?

 

I've already raised the bumper about 1". I'm contemplating more, but it is a lot of work to elongate all those mounting holes (8 in all). For right now I can live with the .75" gap. It's a lot better than the 1.5" gap that there would have been.

 

Nice runna! How was the 1.5" body lift instalation?

 

That looks great. Those sliders look beefy!

 

Looks good! the RB 1" BL is definately in the near future for my rig!

 

The body lift installation was very simple and straight forward with the exception of the shifting issue mentioned in my original post. I was able to reuse 4 of the original body mount bolts by transfering them from a location that used longer bolts to one that used shorter bolts to save a little bit of $$. Elongating the holes in the TJM bumper, though not totally necessary, was by far the most difficult part of the install. If I had a stock bumper and used Roger's bumper brackets I'm sure it would have been a lot easier.

 

Yeah, I really like how the RB style sliders look. I was leaning toward the round tube look until I saw these in person on someone elses rig. That and the unbeatable price and the fact that Roger is local to me made the decision very easy. I couldn't be more happy with the way they turned out. Now I just need to test them out.