Did soa rear... looks crazy.... tried lifting front with torsionbar bar crank.... only got four turns in... broke bolt... it was bottomed out... thought I had many turns to go but it was in all the way... so right now I have a six inch or so lift rear and a half inch in the front.... I guess somebody did my torsion bars for me already or they have just sagged that much over the years... it is a 1996... what to try next? This is a rusty near junk truck but runs like a champ... not worth putting big dollars into... any ideas???

 

you dont really have many options. You could try getting new torsion bars and cranking them up but you still will be 4in lower in the front. The only way to get more lift in the front would be to buy one of the big suspension lifts.

 

solid front axle or suspension lift kit.

 

Can I build a lift kit? Space control arms? Will an axle from an 80 jimmy work? How do I find out my factory gear ratio?

 

i know with my lift kit it did to things in the front.
spaced the control arms and dropped the front diff down.
i would think if you were gonna make a ifs suspension lift you would have to have access to one to measure and fab.

as far as solid axle swap look over at
s10extremist
or
pirate4x4
those sites look like they have alot of what may help you out.

 

Would this be a good fit for the lift keys? If I am maxed out with the stock keys what would lift keys do?

 

Maxed out is only gonna eat ball joints and cv joints.

With the factory frontend you can only go 1.5 inches safely. Anything more will tear up parts. Keys are not gonna help do anything but put it at worse angles.

I suggest lowering it back to stock height and researching better.

 

Yeah I get going past two inches will eat the joints, what I was asking is since the front end is basically at stock ride height with the stock keys maxed out would the evil lift keys allow me to get 2 inches past factory height?