Yes it will wear on your balljoints and CVs, but if you keep an eye on the wear, you can stay ahead of the catastrophic failure. But, if you keep the balljoints greased, and make sure the CV boots do not pull off, you'll get plenty of mileage out of stock parts. New upper control arms are only needed if you start chewing through upper balljoints. The UCAs correct the balljoint angle, so the balljoints arnt exposed to any excessive wear. Personally, I'd rather replace a few sets of upper balljoints than buy the UCAs...but thats just me.

If you find that youre constantly topping out your front suspension, you want to go with longer shocks. I only have issues going over tall but narrow speed bumps, and dropping off curbs

I don't think so. I like a little more space in the wheel wells...looks more like a truck then. But alot of people have 2' lifts and stock wheels and tires. Search around, I'm sure you can find some.

 

A body lift gives you the same frame clearance that you have now. personally I have a 2in suspension lift, I have had it for 4 years and only replaced 1 ball joint on a truck that has 104,000. As far as tires go, i had the orginal skins on them and yes it looked a little weird, but people knew that it was a raised truck, once i got 30's you really could not tell the difference, they looked like stock wheels. To me body lifts are not worth it, and i can tell when other truck have them on, by how the boddy is sitting on the tires, frame is expesed, and the rear axel is showing.
i would say do what you want with your rig, it is yours and yours only, this is just my opinion


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I went with the tbar crank and shackles bc its cheap. so what if you have to replace balljoints every so often. It just the name of the game when it comes to lifting vehicles.

 

You can tell when you go with 30s

Consider the following:

stock





30x10.50s with 2' suspension lift



30s with 2' body lift and 2' suspension lift



Cliffnotes: 30s are sweet if you get a real tire, and you should get the body and the suspension lift

 

I heard that you should not combine body and suspension lifts. are you running BFG's? I had them then got mudders for my truck, but had to replace them so i decided to try the Sumitomo since i could not afford BFG's considering that i got a child on the way.

 

wolfpack with bfgs? nope just look around hes always plugging his general grabber at2s (every possible chance he gets) lol.

 

AT2s ftw

and what have you heard against body lifts with suspension lifts? The only downside is the higher center of gravity, but you should be aware of the altered handling characteristics with the modification of any part of the suspension or lift..

 

I don't remember where but I though it was pretty odd.

 

rough country has a nice 2inch suspention lift, is 430 new. getting mine this week (175 one month old on craigslist) i have herd good things about them. will do a 2inch body lift to top it off later.

 

I would love to get some new upper control arms, but theyre so pricey. Good find butters.