Body Lift

[94blazer]

I know some of the 3500 series trucks had a body lift from the factory, anyone done one on a half ton? Wondering about clearance around the turbo and passenger inner fender mostly.

Casey

 

[tanman_2006]

Real trucks have a suspension lift. AS WELL AS no spark plugs!

 

[94blazer]

Yeah, well I'm not ready to do a spring over swap and ditch the IFS, so its getting a body lift first. :agreed:

 

[Acesneights1]

You will have to modify the fan shroud which if you tow will adversely affect cooling ability, The Air clearer has to be reworked, the trans linkage. There is probably more but that was what I saw when I looked into it. Also note that all the body lift kits I saw specifically said not for diesel. I think TurboTahoe has one ??

 

[Pruittx2]

I got one,,, K2500 here,,, yeah they say for Non Diesel only,, But it works fine on my truck,, I only have the top half of the shroud in,,, You could make some drop down brackets from the lower core-support to mount the lower half on,, then you'd need a filler for in between the 2 halfs. I didn't bother. I do have a HO water pump, duramax fan and HD clutch with 180 t-stat, and NEVER have issues. Shifter linkage has to be extended,, and the tube from the turbo to air filter, I took some heat to it,, stretched it abit,, turned it some, and it works fine. No turbo to inner fender clearance problems. make sure if you get a kit that it comes with the New Bumper mounting brackets So they line up, Mine has the front ones,, but not the ones on the back bumper, No big deal, just more space between the bottom of tailgate and bumper top.

 

[dragogt]

Real trucks have a suspension lift. AS WELL AS no spark plugs!

Quoted for truff..


http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/724378-body-lifts-the-why-not-and-the-how-to.html

 

[saturntech95]

I have looked into one and running the filler pannel from a 3500hd instead of raising the bumper, then you could add a 3" taller radiator at the same time.