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Thinking of doing home made lift kit


00srad600

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Ok well my first thing I would have to be ext radius arms that a can do going to build them into my new tranny mount. But I think just coil spacers and shocks won't fit my 36's inch tires. I think I'm going to need new longer axle brackets I'm not going to pay skyjacker or something but I would like to know if the how the holes for the axle to bolt to go down if it's just strate down or to a angle any help
 
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There is a current build that someone built their own brackets in, search and find it
 
If you're not an experienced fabricator and a good welder (with a 220/240v welder), I would pass on trying to make the drop brackets. You don't have to buy an entire suspension lift kit from a company, but you can buy drop brackets by themselves for the front axle pivots.

To clear 36" tires you will need a lot of lift. I would say more than a 6" suspension lift unless you want to cut most of your fenders off. You'll probably still need to trim the fenders even with 6 or 7" of lift.

I'm in the process of putting 35's on my choptop with a sort of home-fab lift. I bought axle pivot drop brackets and lift springs awhile back to fab up a lift. Now I'm swapping to a heavier front axle and re-doing some stuff. I got the axle pivot drops I needed, got some 3" lift coils, used an F-150 spring perch and some extended radius arms to get me ~5" of lift out front. I also had to use a drop pitman arm(bought) and extended brake lines. For the back I did explorer leaf packs with an extra leaf and chevy drop shackles to get it sitting roughly level. Then I added a 2" body lift when I did my body mounts, for a total of roughly 7" of lift as cheaply as possible. It still cost me, IIRC I spent $130 getting the drop brackets and coils (used), $50 on the extended brake lines, $55 on the F-150 spring perches, $50 on the drop shackles, $75 on the leafs (I broke apart two sets of packs and built my custom packs), $40 on the extended arms (a guy did me a favor), $100 on shocks, and around $220 on the body lift and body mount bushings.

Now I'm adding another $300 or so to make new extended arms, trans x-member, and a braced front TTB axle.

All of my information on doing the lift? Yea, I searched around on here, the information can be found (a lot of it is in the tech archives).
 
send me your email address for the templates

check out my budget build for an idea what they look like.
edit: the templates i have are for a 4 inch drop you would need to extend them to fit 36's
 

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