Fat Bob's Lift

[mr_elam88]

I recently purchased a 3" lift from fat Bob's. The components are add-a-leaf for the rear and torsion keys for the front. It came with shocks for about $400. Anyone have this lift and does it sound like a decent lift?

 

[rngr4x4beast]

idk i been looking at it & thnkn so watever you find out let me no. and if you do really get 3 inches out of it

 

[Jay FX4]

I recently purchased a 3" lift from fat Bob's. The components are add-a-leaf for the rear and torsion keys for the front. It came with shocks for about $400. Anyone have this lift and does it sound like a decent lift?

I'm sorry, I don't understand why you're asking this after you already bought it.....

 

[canyoncritter]

Im going to sound like a jerk, but I dont mean to be..but............

You spent alot of money that you did not have to with the T-bar keys. You could have just cranked up your T bars with the factory keys.And gained the same thing. And you will proably only want to crank them up about 2 iches, if you max them out your ride is going to be like crap, no make that shit.
What is going to happen is, the higher your crank the T bars the less down travel your going to have.Down travel keeps your wheels on the ground when you go over a speed bump, pothole etc. no down travel and the tires will skip off the ground and you will fill every little bump. think like a hard tail harley.
Also with your truck being a 4x4 it will put the CV joint axles at bad angles pretty fast,and can cause all kinds of problems with the shafts later downt he road if you crank the T bars up to far.So when you crank them up, keep a eyes in the shafts that they are not going in to bind as they spin etc.

something you will need, once you start messing with the T bar's no matter is going to be adjustable alighment cams. Buy those now, and install them before you take it to the alighment shop.It will save you a chunk of change.

you can find them at rockauto.com, napa, etc.

here is rock auto's part number
MOOG Part # K80065

 

[JohnnyO]

+1

$400 is $300 too much IMHO, when you can get a real 4" lift kit from Superlift for about $1500.

Travel is travel and geometry is geometry. Keys or no, the front control arms have X amount of travel no matter what means you use to adjust it. (Although '07+ Rangers do use lower torsion keys from the factory than '06 and earlier.)

 

[newmud]

Are you putting this kit on soon ?

 

[Toms01PSD]

Are you putting this kit on soon ?

Look around dude. Don't waste your time, it's not a real "lift". You acheive the same thing as if you were cranking your torsion bars. If you want a real lift it's going to put you out atleast $1600.