6" lift for under $1000
 

So I don't know if this has been done already, I wasn't sure what to search to try and find an article on this being done. This is my idea for a lift that will cost less than a grand.
Superlift sells component boxes, so buy the front half of their 6" lift kit (sells for $500 at summit racing I believe). That gives you all the drop brackets for the control arms and dif and all that.
Next up is lifting the rear, so all you do is flip the axle. Buy spring perches and ubolts and whatever you need then weld it. Make some shock mounts.
Lastly, just buy whatever shocks you want.
Superlift front component box - $500
DIY axle flip - perches $15 each, hardware, brake line extensions, etc.
Shocks - $250
= 6" lift for around $800, whereas the cheapest full 6" kit is 1300

Am I forgetting anything?

wheels, tires, possible regearing lol. but I know what your talking about, compared to RCs 6inch lift.

Well I know that bigger tires and regearing would be needed, but RC's kit or superlifts kit doesnt come with that stuff either. I'm saying just the lift itself. Obviously a full kit would have a more legitimate axle flip kit, but that doesn't mean a custom one wouldn't work, as long as it's done properly, right? And that's only comparing superlift and RC's lift kits, BDS's 5" kit is somewhere around 2 grand isn't it?

extended brake lines maybe.

yeah, I looked at RC's kit and all that's included for the rear is the axle flip components, shock mounts, and brake line extensions

My BDS 5" kit was $1900 ....I got it ata xmas special then
Talked the guy down a little more bcause of a birthday..
..tires and gearing fall into a different category in my book...

What are all the things the bds comes with? Is it just a better quality rough country?
How much can you usually talk a price down like that? And who do you talk to to get a better price, just any salesman?

It came with everything. ..shocks and all nessesary
Brackets. ....went together very well...hardware pack
On one section was short..i think it was because i installes the
ZR2 rear axle at the same time...as far as rge RC lift..
Its the newest of all thr lifts..and aftet watching the video of it
On another post, I will pass....BDS and Superlifthave been in
Business for a long time with this lift in there inventory
So if it did suck the reviews would br out there

yes tires and gears do fall under a diff category with this question. I was just saying because I know some smartass would say it anyways, so I went ahead and done it for them

Why would you pass on RC's 6"? Simply because its new or because of something specific that you noticed?

Has anyone put in the RC 6'' lift on this forum yet? I was almost about to go for it back in the summer but I went with the 2.5'' and 2'' body... kinda wish I went for the 6'' now.

I haven't seen anything about it. I plan on getting just the 2.5" without a body lift. I don't want to get into needing bigger tires and all that. Plus it's mostly my dd, I don't really do any hard offroading

So I just realized that superlifts component box I was referring to only includes both crossmemebers and upper and lower control arm drop brackets. It doesn't include anything to fix the steering

There is a video on this site about the RC 6" lift...
And in the video if you watch carefully as the blazer is
Going through a set of woops, the driver side wheel
Is doing a nasty toe in toe out thing that is just painfull
Looking....now RC may have remedy this, but I dont know
Now im not knocking there products or anything, they do make
Some fine quality stuff, just not sure about the 6" lift...
And the initiall asking price is low because of a reason...
Im just say'n....
I tracked down the video....just dint no how to post it

the toe in toe out thing could just be ****ty stabilizers, so just buy a dual steering stabilizer kit from a better company. I'm not saying rc's 6" is necessarily good though. I mean, it is pretty new.. and cheap.. Look at their 2.5" for example; when it first came out, it didn't include the dif drop brackets

Some people have had some diff/steering clearance issues with bds5 and sl6, but I didnt have a problem with my bds.

The BDS 6" Thatbis currently installed on my jimmy
Went toghether like cake....I did though study the
Install manual for about 3months before I did it
And also lay out all the parts on the living room floor.
My wife and kids thought I had lost my mind...
But they dont like reading instructions anyway....
The kit is great.... no room for dual steering stabilizer
But still a very nice kit.....

Just a quick update...if piecing a lift together...dont forget
The torsion bar drop....the mounts for the rear TB. Are also lowered
To keep the bars level and parallel.