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Originally Posted by mirciulie
THanks IMDONE.
I thought more about doing this lift thing, and gave it up. I realized that it will cost my $$, and the only benefit will be the look of it. And the gas milleage part I don't like either. I talked with some other folks, and that seems to be a concern. That's like a 15% drop in gas milleage. If I wanna take my truck offroad, I'll need more than 2". Probably 5-6. So, I'll be buying the 265/15/R16 for mine, and add some airbags in the back to help me with the heavy loads.
I do like the BFG A/T tires, and found them with 160 a piece installed. I hope that's a good deal. I will get them siped too. But I'll try to get some more out of my stock tires first, so I'll do the swap in the summer probably.
Thanx a bunch for you quick answer. That was helpfull, specialy the Mpg thing.
Have a good one out there.  |
If at a later time you want to get into the lift thing, then do it right, a 2.5" lift will provide some extra ground clearance that will help. If you don't want to get into the 5-6" game then an adjustable coilover setup with the diff drop and some Camburg or Total Chaos upper control arms and 33" tires will do really good off-road.
If you are concerned about the gas mileage, get a set of 4.10 or (if you can find them) 4.30 or even 4.56 gears and you will not be off in your mileage.
This whole set up can run around $2k - $4k depending on what you get and what you want to do. The gears will be an easy grand with install, the coilovers are around $600 - $950 depending on the set and you will have some more cash in tires and the Upper Control Arms will cost either $500 - $650 for a set.
For the cost this is actually a really good off-road setup and you don't have to take it to the level that I am going and others have already gone.
Good luck.