How much are you looking to spend?
I seem to recall PA lift laws are a little tought and activly enforced. Might want to check into them before buying parts.
Well lifts for these trucks are cheap. Goto
www.offroaddesigne.com and talk to this goofy guy named Stephan. He can hook you up with the parts to do a lift. The EZrides are about the flexiest on the market and relativly inexpensive. Stephan is a supernice guy and will take the time to help figure out what your looking for and is about the best price around.
Before you spend cash there join
www.coloradok5.com . Stephan gives discounts to CK5 Members and a lift kit discount would pay for your membership here in savings /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
The rear you have several options. For max off road performance the ORD shackle flip is great. The shackle flip does cause a change in road behavior so if you tow with this vehicle you might want to go with lift springs instead.
Now here is Grimmys guidline to building trucks.
GEARS BEFORE TIRES. I can't tell you how many posts I have read that start out like this. My tranny just died, My tranny won't go into drive, my tranny wont go into gear, my tranny lost second gear, my tranny this My dranny shudders, my tranny that. Then next thing I figure out is what gears and tires this person has. It' usualy reads 3.08's and 33's or 35's. Basicly the large tires put so much load on the tranny it fried. You MUST do the gears when you chang tires. If his truck has Overdrive then I would recomend 4.10 gears from tires through 33. 4.56 gears for tires from 33-38. 4.88 gears for 40.
No Overdrive then 4.10 for 33-35. 4.56 for 36-38. Please take this advice and save yourself $1k for a transmission rebuild. Gears are the most expensive part of any build up if your not able to install them yourself. I don't know what people are thinking when the go...gears are too expensvie right now .I'll run my new 35 inch tires with my 3.08's. When they fry the tranny they just spent about what the regear would cost.
Some other parts I highly recomend is the ORD Steering brace and ORD Sway correction/disconnect kit if dropping the cash on a lift kit is a little out of your price range. Both these parts will improve even a stock trucks performance. THe brace does wonders even on the street. HiLift and a HiLift mounting bracket is alwasy a must have, A 20K 30ft Recover strap is a must have for any offroader. Every guy wants a GPS! Don't get a bottom of the line but a mid range one. I'm liking the Garmin GPS V. has built in road maps and does all the nice stuff you could ever want off road.
www.gpsnow.com has pretty good prices as well as good product information. If you also Hike you might look at the E-Trax models. They are a little more compact and hiker friendly.
