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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 04:31 PM
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any one have a pic of a truck with just a body life and no susp. lift? Pref. a 99 - 2005 silverado>?

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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 05:03 PM
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there not hard to find, but body lifts are cheap for a reason. Have you looked into getting torsion keys and blocks?
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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 05:14 PM
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no, i just wanted to saee what it looked like, i getting a susp. lift but just wanted to see what it looked look
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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 06:32 PM
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You probably have seena silverado with 3 inch body lift but don't realize it. One key to for look is the huge gap in the rear wheel fender wells (between the bed and frame) or spacers used for the receiver hitch.
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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 09:07 PM
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2500's and hd's have about 2" additional built into the cab and bed mounts so thats what its gonna look like
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Old Nov 9, 2005 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by NoChrome
there not hard to find, but body lifts are cheap for a reason. Have you looked into getting torsion keys and blocks?
torsion keys are even cheaper and are far worse for the truck then a bodylift.
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by black4x4
torsion keys are even cheaper and are far worse for the truck then a bodylift.

Body lifts are kinnda cheesy, and ugly(I am not a fan on them) but there basically just spacers and are not bad for anything (may wear bodymounts a LITTLE faster) your truck will drive handle steer pull or anything else the exact same way as stock. The only think that may change or be harder on your truck is the tire/wheel you run, and as long as there kept to no bigger to 3" and no one gets creative they are safe
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 04:56 AM
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Whats wrong with keys? Get a little longer shocks, a little rougher ride. Its a truck its not meant to ride like a caddy.
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 12:35 PM
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for keys it puts all of the following at worse angles and wares them alot faster then at stock angle the componets are cv's, balljionts, tierods. plain and simple the the flatter the front suspension is the longer it will last. for instance my truck i run 36s and have broke 1 cv and 2 tierods but others that have the same size tire as me and have keys to get more hight have broke more doing less offroad.
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 02:45 PM
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I agree with Black4x4 agin but would also like to add you suspension dosent work as well either because its pre-loaded way to much
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