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A Homebrew lift

If they are legit blocks, and not some hokey hockey puck, or square stock piece of metal.. Id agree.

My best friend Mr.Clean on here used blocks on the rear of his 01 ford superduty. They stack on top of the factory blocks... It looked like a lot of sketch.. But he rode that thing hard at the dunes, and zero issues.. I was never scared of that thing breaking or killing any nuns...


Rear blocks are ok IMO. Fronts I have zero faith in though.


Of course a rear spring lift or shackle flip would work better though
 
Browse the classifieds here. Every so often a real good deal for a quality product comes up. Just be patient.
 
Well, for the back, its either those or go to the junkyard and get the rear leaf pack from a 3/4 ton.

I would prefer doing the 3/4 ton leafs, but it's just he said he would give me the blocks for free.
 
For the rears, I don't think the 3 inch blocks would be a bad choice. Find a set of 3 inch front lift springs and run it.
 
With Avery. Get some cash flow coming in (a job) save some money for a while and then start shopping. No need to jump into it and do it half arssed and have something bad happen or get into it and run out of money and then there your truck sits tore apart and you have no money to get it back together.

Also like Deuling said blocks in rear are fine imo had a lot of block on my super duty and never once had a problem with them. I'd like to say I ran that truck a lot harder than the average person. No blocks in the front tho. Lift springs only. Keep an eye on cl see them pop up every once and a while.
 
If I did do end up with something in the area of a 3 1/2 to 4" lift, would I need to find a new pitman arm? Or would the stock one be fine?

And what about shocks?
 
You either need a dropped pitman arm, dropped draglink, OR, a raised steering arm. Steering arm is prolly the best choice
 
Shocks a must.

I also ran a stock steering arm on my blazer with a 4", it didn't work the best. It's not
Right but can be done.
 
I guess its time to start putting a shopping list together then, Maybe sell the little tractor, and get to it.

The pallet factory thing fell through, so I'm back to looking, I'm going to try a furniture place tonite.
 
cut a rectuangular hole in the bottom of rear shackle mount this allows you to flip the shackle downward giving you that 2 to 2.5 in lift. the front i would just add a few springs to it or get a longer shackle. or go to the junk yard and get a shackle and weld two together and theres your lift. done it before and it works great.
 
Honestly, wait until after Christmas, birthday or a job. You really want to think this out and do it right the first time. If you throw on an ultra cheap lift now you will be wasting money and probably want to do it over later.

Money wise you can save if you can buy a complete quality used lift with shocks , good spring bushings and steering arm. Always buy new u-bolts. Be careful because if you need to replace any of those the costs ads up quick. Personally, I'd get a kit from ORD but it probably depends on what you plan to do with your ride. Is it just for flogging, daily driver, hold me over for a year or two, etc. Knowing the answer will really affect what you should be buying in terms if quality and ride comfort.

Just make sure what ever you do that it is safe. Injuring yourself or some one else because you wanted to save $100-200 dollars would be awful.
 
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