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Old Jul 7, 2007 | 07:11 PM
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Default RE: Torsion keys?

okay, leveling the truck out is not returning it to stock. The s-series blazer does not sit level stock. there is about 1.5-2 inches difference in height from front to rear. They were all like this stock. If you have 5 leafs where there should be four, someone probably added an add-a-leaf somewhere throught this vehicles life. Add-a-leafs can add up to 1 inch height difference in the rear. That is probably the problem. You can crank and get close to level, but i wouldnt reccomend it. It causes unnecessary wear on ball joints, CV Shafts, etc... Why you ask? Because leveling the truck out is exceeding stock specs, that is why. Just remember, none of these trucks were level to begin with so leveling is technically lifting. Just my $0.02
 
Old Jul 17, 2007 | 12:56 PM
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There is talk of "stock specs" in some of these postings, I would be very interrested in knowing what the stock specs are and where they are measured to, I assume from the ground to some point, what point. I have a 1996 4 door Blazer nad the front end drivers side was sagging. I put in new heavy duty torsion bars on both sides and set them to some arbitrary setting to level the vehicle side to side, but would like to set them to the factory height to avoid extra wear and tear.
 
Old Jul 19, 2007 | 12:28 AM
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if your truck does sit at the stock height in back and the front is sitting lower or maybe they lowered it down then you can go to stock height no problems but if it still sitslower then the back i wouldnt go any higher and if you do DONT crank it higher then the back. alot of guys with Z71 pickups crank upthe fronts to match the back and have no porblems but the guys that lift the back and crank the torsion bars to match the lift have serious issuesyou can only match up to a 3 in rear lift i think.....it looks cheap when they do it any ways on that truck cuz they didnt properly lift the front but they did the back
 
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