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Good cheap lift kit for 86 S-10 Blazer?

Blaze

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Anyone know where to get one?

I got into a little financial bind and had to sell my K5. I went back to school two years ago and I have completely depleted my savings for tuition. I had already sold most of my vehicles to pay for it as well, so the poor K5 had to go. :(

It was between that or my 98 Trans Am that I am about to finish putting the built 6.0L in or my S-10 that is worth about a buck and a half on a good day, so the K5 had to leave. :(

Anyway, I am pulling my S-10 Blazer out of storage and I am going to start fixing it. It was my first car and I want to build it up the way I wanted to back in high school 14 years ago. :haha:

I really want to do a 6" suspension lift on it. I know I could easily go SFA but I don't want to have to modify the truck that much. I want to be able to turn it back to stock if I ever wanted to. I have two sons, so one of them will have this thing one day and who knows what they'll be in to.

Is my best bet to try and find either a used one or a wrecked/parts truck with a lift on it?

Anyone have any advice?
 
I would go strait axle.

Those ball joints wear out fast enough the way it is, let alone lifted with bigger tires.
 
I really don't want to cut it up for straight axle though.

I may still do it, but I'm really torn on that part.
 
Go to s10extremist.org and check with them. Most of those guy run a 5 in trailmaster lift IIRC.
 
Kind of had a falling out with those guys. That was my old wheeling group before some stuff happened and I decided I didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

Long story, nothing I did, just got accused of taking the wrong side of an argument when I do not take sides and remained neutral. Some words were said to me that I didn't care for. :haha:

I like you guys better. :)
 
Did you have to cut off all your old IFS stuff or were you able to just unbolt it all?
 
I will say X2 on the SAS. I used that S10extremist site alot for research, not so much for conversation. There was no "kit" when I built mine. I bet having a kit available would be sooooo much easier.
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And don't worry about cutting the IFS stuff out. First and foremost, once you have a solid axle in there, you'll wonder why the factory didn't build it that way in the first place. 2nd, those trucks are certainly not rare. Finding a replacement frame to go back to stock for some reason should be easy, for a long time.
 
I just looked at that Off Road Direct site, I really like that kit.

I may actually buy a separate frame and build that one and swap my body on to it and keep my original frame for later.

I think you guys talked me in to SFA, so much damn cheaper than an IFS lift when you look at it.
 
OK, I was going through a lot of my old designs for this truck (I'm a mechanical designer) that I had done a long time ago and I found a bolt-in SFA kit that I had designed probably about 8 years ago but never built. Sitting in class last night I was daydreaming about building this truck and I think what I am going to do is find a good parts Blazer since I need a lot of sheetmetal. I am going to take the frame and build it up, do the SFA, SBC swap, everything. Basically get the frame completely done and really nice, then fix the body and drop it on to the nice frame.
 
Damn, it ended up being a PSD axle. :(

But I have still convinced myself to do SFA.

I may even get creative and do a longarm suspension on it. :)
 
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