What's my lift height?

[shady]

I'm trying to figure out what size lift I have on the rumble bee. I'd like to actually go down to a 4" lift and want to know what I have so I can offer a trade a few places.

Lift is all spring. These are the only couple pics I have left in my phone at the moment..... Tires are 37", no body lift.

 

[Bent77]

Theres a thread here somewhere....

Measurements from where the bump stop rubber mounts to its bracket to the top of the axle. Some special magic about 12.5"

 

[shady]

I'll have to measure later. That sounds like a long ways.

I'm not strong with the search-fu on here. I've searched for some other things. But I'll try quick.

 

[shady]

Found a link to an old thread that gives me an error. But I did find the magic number of 8"-8.5" where you said to measure mentioned in a few places

 

[rampage]

A search for “axle frame height” got this:

We use 8.5 to 9" from axle tube to the bumpstop bracket which is a little above frame bottom which would say you have 1-1.5" of lift on it. Would be nice to find some actual stock vehicles but we measured this up years ago from a bunch of stock, intact trucks we had around and it works pretty good. It correlated nicely to the 3" lift on my '88 sub that ended up at 11 3/4". D60 fronts tend to push that to 9" or a bit more we figure.

 

[shady]

Cool... I'm going to measure later. Didn't catch the part about a d60 adding to the measurement. I do have a 60.

 

[Bent77]

Ok then I guess I remembered 12.5” being 4” of lift

Thanks @rampage

 

[campfire]

@shady - Measuring is the surest bet, but you can get quick-n-dirty estimations by scrolling through the picture thread:

https://ck5.com/forums/threads/how-will-my-k5-truck-look-with-xx-tires-on-xx-of-lift.170627/

 

[shady]

Yeah I kinda looked through but was really hoping that there was a measurement spot. When Bent mentioned that there was a thread I looked around and found that... I'll probably see later tonight. Ice melted and the flu is gone. So I should be able to get something done finally lol

 

[nvrenuf]

Lots of feedback on the subject here - https://ck5.com/forums/threads/lets-play-measure-your-lift.235269/

 

[shady]

14¾" so I'm just going with 6" lift.... Thanks guys