My 4" lift install

[Southpaw]

Well the lift got here, and it was short a few things. Namely the new swaybar end links, and the carrier bearing spcers. I called Marty from truck toyz, and he said that BDS would drop ship them to me ASAP. Well I went ahead with the lift anyway. I just flipped the swaybar link bracket over and put it outside the frame and reused the OE ones for now, and I figured I would deal with any vibration I may have in the driveshaft until my spacer kit got here.

The install went pretty well all in all. It took me and a buddy 9 hours start to finish. A lot of that time was spent looking for crap we had strung from one end of the shop to the other, and trying to figure why the impact guns weren't working...

The finished product looks too low in the rear, so i'll probably end up getting a single 6" rear block to replace the factory 2" and the added 3" that I have now. Either that or an add-a-leaf, IDK yet.

Anyway, here are some pics of the install....

Front-before



New vs. old springs


The pitman arm didn't give us too much trouble....of course you can see we had extra help.





Front-after



Rear



Look how long the U-bolt were!! I think they sent me ones for a 6". We had to get the nuts hand-tight, and then I cut the bolts off with a grinder just so I could get a socket on them. As you can see I had to use four washers to keep the nuts on the threads too.



This is the only afeter pic I have so far. It looks lower here in th rear than it actually is in person. I'll try to get some better pics soon.



Oh and heres my buddies truck

[DIESEL KEVIN]

looks good man! nice chevy too ive grown to like them blackd out..duramax of course. your truck would look nice with the rim painted black

[Marty]

Hope you didn't cut those U bolts off too short.

Do you want to retain your factory Overload?

Is that a CAT in there? LOL

How'd the pitman arm come off??? Usually gotta torch them babies.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by Maintain

Hope you didn't cut those U bolts off too short.
No, they're not too short, If I get a one peice bigger block, I will buy the right size u-bolt. I won;t reuse these now that I cut them.

Do you want to retain your factory Overload?
yes

Is that a CAT in there? LOL
Yup, that thing was up our azz all day

How'd the pitman arm come off??? Usually gotta torch them babies.
Put a impact gun on the puller(in pic) while my buddy hit the pitman arm with a BFH. Popped right off

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Last edited by Southpaw : 02-16-2009 at 02:07 PM.

[chappy]

looks good man.How do you like the ride out of those BDS springs?I had some 4inchers on my 97 and thought they rode pretty good.

[mudrunninpig]

looks great

[southern7.3]

Looks good bud

[mdiesel]

hey man looks good do u still have ur stock rear blocks
i may want them


Matt

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by chappy

looks good man.How do you like the ride out of those BDS springs?I had some 4inchers on my 97 and thought they rode pretty good.

LOVE the way they ride.
Firmed it up a bit, I really am happy with it.

Originally Posted by mdiesel

hey man looks good do u still have ur stock rear blocks
i may want them


Matt

For now they are still in the truck on top of the 3" blocks that came with the lift.

[chappy]

Sweet,I'm looking into them since the warehouse and factory they make them at is a 1/2 hour from my house.Forgot to add that I have That same ingersol impact.I love it.going on 3 years now of owning it.