Body lift or not?

[chico4554]

if your only doing mild wheeling, dont worry about the breaking. A body lift will hold up fine. Ive done plenty of off-roading with my body lift with no problems.

 

[reddog5]

Under hard offroading your body lift will fail, mine did. I have the performance accesories 3in body lift. I tore two of the cab mounts on my truck. Now granted the cab is still fastened to the frame but i dont trust it.

I would rather trim the fenders as well or save your money and invest in a suspension lift.

 

[LittleBigFoot]

I have beaten the hell out of my PA body lift and it holds up just fine. It's a nice supplimentary lift. Low center of gravity and room for bigger meats. Room for a doubler and added space for engine swaps. I've got no objections

 

[4x4junkie]

Under hard offroading your body lift will fail, mine did. I have the performance accesories 3in body lift. I tore two of the cab mounts on my truck. Now granted the cab is still fastened to the frame but i dont trust it.

I would rather trim the fenders as well or save your money and invest in a suspension lift.

My Ranger did that on the rear cab mounts and I have no bodylift on it (it was pretty early on it happened, too).
It seems mine was the result of the spot-welds breaking (someone doing shitty work some days, or not prepping the metal correctly). I drilled out the welds and put some bolts in along with a few various pieces of 1/8" steel to reinforce the area, and have not had any problems there since.

My BII I do run a bodylift on, so far no problems (even with a bit of rust perforation on the core support area). I don't see a bodylift affecting the stresses on these areas that much.

 

[jnunez86]

body lifts are for street queens period. no one with any kind of off roading or performance in mind uses a body lift-period. ther are other cheap ways of clearing big tires, fender flares, fiberglass, and trimming. bodylifts increase high center of gravity with excesive body roll. NOT A GOOD COMBINATION.

 

[blackbronc]

Ref. body lift. If you gotta go cheap...yes. If you want more flex and travel no. Best case scenario, do suspension lift of any kind first then if you need more clearance add the minimum body lift you can get away with IMO. Steering gear can get pretty strange or downright dangerous with body lifts.

 

[4x4junkie]

body lifts are for street queens period. no one with any kind of off roading or performance in mind uses a body lift-period. ther are other cheap ways of clearing big tires, fender flares, fiberglass, and trimming. bodylifts increase high center of gravity with excesive body roll. NOT A GOOD COMBINATION.

Ummm Yeah, I guess I have no performance offroad then, That's a pristine smooth street my queen is sitting on with its too-high center of gravity even though the entire frame, engine & everything below the body is not lifted as high as if I had used a suspension lift alone



(Ugh... Guess Cardomain must be f'ed up at the moment )

 

[Hahnsb2]

I have no problems with body lifts. They're cheap, you can clear larger tires, and makes working under the rig so much easier. I would prefer a 3inch body lift and 3" suspension over just a 6inch suspension, don't have to worry about steering angles, COG is lower and some 3" lifts I've seen flex plenty well.

 

[rangernotlifted]

I have a three inch body and 31x10.50's

 

[rangernotlifted]

Three inch body lift with 31x10.50's

 

[Evan]

There is a lot of BS going on here. First, people saying you shouldn't make your own body lift. It's like any other type of fab work; if you do a good job and don't cut corners, it will be fine. My body lift made from hockey pucks and threaded rod has proven itself time and time again. I did have a mount pull through the body before the body lift.

Next, people saying that body lifts are for street queens or are unnecessary. Did you know that on many RBVs you need a body lift in order to run a doubler? That's a good reason right there, and I have not seen many street queens running doublers. BLs are a great way to fit a larger tire under a truck without raising your CG sky high or creating steering problems. If you already have enough suspension lift and/or just want to run larger tires, a BL is a great option.

And as far as BLs looking unsightly, some trucks are built for the trail and not built for eye candy. I like looking at my rig and others and seeing framerails, driveshafts, coilsprings, etc.

 

[Muddycowboy]

my buddy is a machinist he made his own body lift buy just buying a stock peice of poly whatever, the shit performance makes there spacers out off and just cut it to make his own and bought new bolts from fastenal worked great on 4 trucks and the stock was like 4 bucks a foot bolts were like a dollar a piece

 

[Thumper113]

body lifts are for street queens period. no one with any kind of off roading or performance in mind uses a body lift-period. ther are other cheap ways of clearing big tires, fender flares, fiberglass, and trimming. bodylifts increase high center of gravity with excesive body roll. NOT A GOOD COMBINATION.

Ummm Yeah, I guess I have no performance offroad then, That's a pristine smooth street my queen is sitting on with its too-high center of gravity even though the entire frame, engine & everything below the body is not lifted as high as if I had used a suspension lift alone

X2

Man, they need to remove all the rocks & boulders out of the Safeway parking lot. It's not easy pushing a shopping cart full of groceries through all of that stuff. Maybe I should remove the body lift so that I might be able to become more off road performance oriented?

 

[dgarner08]

i had a 3 inch body lift on my 99 and ran 33/12.50/16. the only draw back is that i think the BL was part of the reason it rolled instead of just skidding

 

[c_note]

the only reason id put a body lift on my truck is to put a CHEVY 350 in it. id much rather just do alot of cutting even if its more work though. btw, thats alot of stress on those long bolts.