tonkatruck66

cute. well when you can run mid 8's in a fullsize pick up with a 302 block and 10" tires, let me know. and for the record, i never scrapped once with my truck and it was lowered 3/5. oh, and does that make yourself feel better that you can make up a saying to defend your truck? next time, do some research before you make yourself look like an idiot...

pcart23

Well when you say cute im guessing your talking about your little truck bc thats all its good for and can do is to look cute and go kinda fast. I have no need of going mid 8s in the mud and on dirt roads or while hauling my four wheeler in the bed or even pulling a trailer. What can you go through with your little 10 inch tires o yea a speed bump great what else o yea nothing. By the way i didnt say i made that saying up some one else on here says it also and prob has the same ideas as me with haveing "cute" trucks

cole_ford

[quote=pcart23;134029]can i see some pics please and what did u make them out of?

I didnt want to go with a cheap rubber, so i went to a surplus store and picked out some scrap belting they had. Its about 1/4 in thick. I dont recommend it for the front, cuz its too stiff. But it should work okay for the back, not to mention it will last a lot longer than the cheaper rubber.


I also think that lowered trucks are pointless. I think its cool, and many do nice work, but i would never own one, or do that to one. The only point they serve is for show. I dont know how many times Ive been cut off because some a-hole had to swerve around a crack in the road.

cole_ford

pretty sure it doesnt take a lowered truck to run mid eights. Ive seen trucks with 8 in of lift run mid 9s. If your set up is done right, you can run anything in anything.(okay maybe not anything)

swampfishin

Apparently tonka has got something personal against body lifts because most of the points that he makes about them arent necessarily true in my opinion. I havent figured out yet where all these points are that are having there GEOMETRY thrown off because a body lift has been installed. Its got a 3" extension for the steering. The factory did the same thing, its not a solid rod all the way to the steering wheel. If theres a lift that gets into geometry its definetly a suspension lift. You ever seen some of the angles of those universal joints. And I dont have any use for a lowered truck, I would have bought a car if I wanted it to be low and I wouldnt have to do anything to it.

chad085

mud flaps for semi trucks can make good gap guards. The nice heavy duty rubber or urethane 1/4" thick ones. With a little time and patience they can look nice, and cost a fraction of the store bought gap guards. I would post pics, but they were on a friends truck and he sold it a while back.

I'm personally not a huge fan of body lifts, but they serve their purpose. They have their pro's and con's like anything else, and if you did your research and decided that a body lift was best for you and your truck and you are happy with it's performance, then don't worry about what someone else thinks.

Now as for the guy i saw in traffic today with a pinto mounted on a blazer chassis on 35's, well, um.............. lol

mitchalvin

Body lifts change the angles on the ujoints on the steering shaft, which will destroy the rag joint quickly. I have seen others that have cooling problems after a body lift due to the radiator and shroud misalignment. I know of electrical problems due to stretching the wires from the body to the frame, brake lines breaking, ripping out body mounts and having problems with the shifters jumping out of gear.

tonkatruck66

your center of gravity is higher, thus higher roll over rate. ask any wheeler, any TRUE wheeler that does more than just mud (which takes NO driver skill what so ever... get in and slam the skinny pedal.... oohhh.. tough one, i know) and they will tell you a body lift is useless. and yes you can run low times with lifted trucks, but have you ALSO noticed they have more money into their setup than most of us have in our trucks all together? my toyota was quicker than my f150 and it had 11" of lift on 35's, but then again, i had about 4K in that motor/trans alone. you guys are judging lowered trucks, and youve never even owned one. im not defending that mexican lowered bull sh*t,that stuff is wack, im talkin about a true lowered truck that has some ***** to it. i guess your basically saying all these truck dragsters are "gay" or whatever you want to call em because they're lowered? but yet im willing to bet half of you would sh*t your pants if you rode in one down the track. i think its time to drop the busch, put the spit cup down, and quit half as*ing stuff. if you wanted three more inches of lift, you should have gone that much with a suspension lift....

and thanks mitchalvin, for seeing past that whole "save now" deal and seeing the long term effects of skimping on quality parts and doing everything the right way...

kyle7

Tonka Truck, you should really read your own quote there... your getting all pissy when its not really necessary. All Paul did was ask how to close up the gap caused by his bodylift. You didnt have to go and start bashing his decision to have one. you can't just criticize peoples trucks and what they do to them without expecting to get some criticism back. you gave your opinion on BL's and They gave there opinions about Lowering so i dont see why your all upset... maybe you just have problems beyond what the doctor can fix? who knos. lol

cole_ford

I agree. I dont understand why you're getting so defensive. It's his truck, let him do what he wants. The only reason I went with a body lift was cuz I didnt have the money at the time, and I got it for cheap. That and I just wanted to go a little higher. I dont do a lot of off roading or racing, som im not concerned with geometry. If i keep the truck long enough, I will eventually take the body lift out, and put a 2 in suspension lift in, but even then, that can mess up the front end, so i dont know.
OBTW, no ones knockin you for your race truck, we were all just giving you opinions on lowered trucks. Like i said before....if dont right,(like it sounds like you have done) it can be pretty sweet.