surferguy001

Last year I added a 3" leveling kit to my 2010 f150, and now I am looking to possibly upgrade to something a little higher up. I am fine with how it looks and do not want to be one of those guys with a pavement princess looking truck, but I keep bottoming out so I definitely need a lift. On all the lifts I have looked at they say they are designed to lift and level the truck. So with a 4" lift would that mean it is 4" lift in the front and about 1.5" lift in the back or is it more like 6.5" lift in the front and 4" lift in the back? If it is 4" lift in the front I would only be gaining 1" from that since I already have the 3" level, and I would then choose to get a 6" lift.

smurfs_of_war

It is the front measurement. So a 4" will lift the front 4" and the rear will go up enough to level it.

I am 99.9% positive on this- so if someone needs to correct me, please do.

TheBathTub

this is what ive always been told as well

farm_boy23

i think there will be a one inch difference or it could be even i know rough country lift kits for 1997-2003 trucks have the block option of 3" or 4" rear blocks

surferguy001

Looks like i'll be going with a 6" then. I was leaning towards rough country. Is the quality the same as most other lifts as well?

farm_boy23

honestly i dont know ive heard the best is bds but youre goin to pay for it and with the rough country i do know you can clear 35s with the right backspacing and offset of rims

farm_boy23

of course for your truck it bein a 2010 the rough county 6" is only $100 more so to be on the safe side i would definitely go with that but thats my opinion

heydustin

Agreed

zimmer0

iTrader: (1)

you get what you pay for, always keep that in mind.

smurfs_of_war

Depends on your purpose. I've read some pretty decent reviews for the rough country for general purpose driving- other than the fact they are rough as h377. That being said- the 6" seems to put the balljoints and CV at a pretty gnarly angle according to some pictures. I actually contacted Rough Country about their 4" and the CV's and all front components are +/- 3 degrees from OEM. There is the odd bad review too, but that goes the same for all of them I guess. I've read some BDS good and bad too. Then there's the block vs leaf argument, the list goes on and on...

What you want depends on what your comfortable shelling out for and what your purpose is. I don't think any of us can claim we drive our trucks hard enough to break the components on any of the lifts- at least I don't think....