NEED LIFT KIT HELP IMMEDIATELY!

[Hokie]

Originally posted by sk1er17
All in all- everything worked well except the front bumper is being a pain. The mounts are cheap so im going to make my own. And you cant have the fog lights on if you want to raise the bumper.

The wires don't reach? Just extend them.

Originally posted by sk1er17
The rear was a piece of cake and i guessed perfectly and drilled the whole for myspare tire lift.

I thought the front bumper was the easy part and the front bumper was the crappy part.

Also, what did you do for bolts? Did you have to buy any? Or did you reuse the longer factory ones where needed?

Definately update on how the truck rides with its new height and new tires.

 

[sk1er17]

When you lift the front bumper the fog lights hit the frame. the bumper brackets are really cheap and while tightening a bolt (by hand) i ripped their welded bolt out... so i had to put my own in. By doing that- the bracket on the bumper doesnt sit flush with the 2" bracket so my bumper looks bent downwards... to fix thim im going to sodder the bracket directly to the frame. (this all make any sense?)

I had to buy a lot of bolts. I couldnt tell you exactly what size or how many- just make sure you have a store nearby that sells nuts and bolts and you'll be making at least 2 trips there. Im hoping to get my tires tomorrow. If i do i should have pictures up by the end of this week.

**the whole in the bumper is NOT visible when the rear hatch is closed. What i did was "eye" up about where the whole should be and drilled straight downwards with a 7/8" bit and then angled it horizontally. I then took a 1/2" but thats about 15" long and drilled toward where i thought the gadget thingy is.... nailed it! it was cool as hell when i looked underneath and saw my drill but was directly in line.

 

[Hokie]

Originally posted by sk1er17
When you lift the front bumper the fog lights hit the frame. the bumper brackets are really cheap and while tightening a bolt (by hand) i ripped their welded bolt out... so i had to put my own in. By doing that- the bracket on the bumper doesnt sit flush with the 2" bracket so my bumper looks bent downwards... to fix thim im going to sodder the bracket directly to the frame. (this all make any sense?)

You're going to solder to the frame?

Did you use the brackets provided in the 2" kit or did you buy some from Performance Accessories? (I thought that you couldn't use the front brackets provided in the PA-792 kit)

Maybe I'll have better luck since you and I have different front bumpers.

I had to buy a lot of bolts. I couldnt tell you exactly what size or how many- just make sure you have a store nearby that sells nuts and bolts and you'll be making at least 2 trips there. Im hoping to get my tires tomorrow. If i do i should have pictures up by the end of this week.

Thats wierd.. SSISKORA said you could just reuse the factory bolts where needed.

 

[Lifted95X]

Originally posted by HokieBert
Thats wierd.. SSISKORA said you could just reuse the factory bolts where needed.

You can reuse the factory bolts in some areas, and use the bolts that came in the kit IF AND ONLY IF you drill out some of the bushings. I did not have to go and purchase ANY additional bolts.

 

[Hokie]

Any pics yet? I really wanna see how your setup looks since we'll have very similar setups (I hope ) you can just email me at bgwilson@vt.edu. Thanks!

 

[sk1er17]

Pics hopefully comming this weekend!!

 

[sk1er17]

THEY'RE HERE!!!

hey guys, got my tires and everything on. the pics are here
http://www.geocities.com/nrb1225/explorer/

Check them out

**I included one of how i had to make-shift the brackets to lift my brushguard.

Hope you like!!

 

[section525]

Awesome! Looks like a Stomper now. congrats!

 

[TarHeel085]

Originally posted by section525
Awesome! Looks like a Stomper now. congrats!

how did you get them to work? the dont work for me

 

[section525]

He went over the data transfer limit for geocities (already!).

 

[TarHeel085]

Originally posted by section525
He went over the data transfer limit for geocities (already!).

you arse, you got to see em & i didnt if you can e-mail them to me & ill put them in the photo gallery on the site. curtis@cs-net.com

 

[sk1er17]

Thanks for the compliment. I was just trying to save them on my computer so i can put them in my photo gallery but for some reason i cant save them from that site. (my friend took the pics with his digi on his computer) can anyone see those and save them to their own file? Ive done it before but its not working and id realy like to get these up for other members to see.

HEY LIZARD.... Where are you at? i wanna knwo what you think! Lol--- i gotta lot of catching up to do to catch him!!

 

[Hokie]

HELL YEAH!!! Looks great... You've convinced me, I've gotta get that my truck up in the air.

 

[section525]

Ha.. I think it allows one person per hour or something.

Next person who can get it there and see em.. SAVE THEM!

 

[Hartman]

For gods sake people find a different host than Geocities.

Geocities is probably the worst host you can use.

 

[sk1er17]

i was planning on putting the pics on cardomain but i cant save them. ive had that other geocities account since i was 16

 

[sk1er17]

OK guys, most of them are in my photo album on this site.

Theres 3 that i cant trim enough off of to get them under 100kb... they're both 107kb and ive tryed compressing them.... any ideas?

 

[section525]

Send em to me. jp@skidog.com

 

[Yomie]

Looks good

is that your maxima? Are you on Maxima.org? I'm just asking causei have an I30t

 

[sapogmxr]

wow that truck looks awsome. im gonna have to get me a body lift now. Than well meet up and go off roadin.