What do I do?
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What do I do?
I was looking to put a body lift on my truck but it seems so hard to find an inexpensive one online. It is a 2WD so I wont be doing a whole lot of off roading in it, I just wanted it lifted for looks more or less and maybe get off road a little. I plan on either putting 285/55/R20 Nitto Terra Grappler or BFG All Terrain A/T KO on the stock 20" rims that came with it. Any suggestions on what to do..and kinda fairly cheap?
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Cheapest route is leveling kit in the front with blocks in the back. depends what year your truck is...older than 04 u need torsion keys instead of leveling kit. tires just depend on the cheapest u can find
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Id say forget a body kit, its a truck not a civic. Especially if you life it its gonna look ridiculous in my opinion to have a lifted truck with a body kit. just my .02 its your truck after all and you should do what you like and not others. oh and I would go with the BFGs
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Id say forget a body kit, its a truck not a civic. Especially if you life it its gonna look ridiculous in my opinion to have a lifted truck with a body kit. just my .02 its your truck after all and you should do what you like and not others. oh and I would go with the BFGs
He didnt say body kit. He said body lift.
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Does anyone know where I can get a picture of an F150 with a 3" lift kit side x side with an F150 with a leveling kit? I wanna see if I can tell the difference so I can get a better idea of what I want to do.
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You're going to have a hard time finding a body lifted 04-08 that doesn't have a suspension/leveling kit on it. You can get the same ~3" for the fraction of the cost with the leveling kit.
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I'm running 285/70/R17 on my stock 05 STX...it is a 4x4 though...but I have a ton of tire clearance left to go bigger.
If your just going for looks thats one thing but if those tires fit stock I would just leave it stock. Theres acually no benefit to having a leveling kit/body lift/suspension lift other than tire clearance/looks, some even hurt your performance. Cheapest substitute is cutting a little out of the fenders and putting some fender flares on which can even be custom painted from the factory to match your vehicles paint granted its a stock Ford/GM/dodge/etc color.
If your just going for looks thats one thing but if those tires fit stock I would just leave it stock. Theres acually no benefit to having a leveling kit/body lift/suspension lift other than tire clearance/looks, some even hurt your performance. Cheapest substitute is cutting a little out of the fenders and putting some fender flares on which can even be custom painted from the factory to match your vehicles paint granted its a stock Ford/GM/dodge/etc color.