Quote
Quote
The biggest negative to a BL is the longer bolts and leverage on them. Since you've stripped it right down to the frame, just weld permanent spacers with their own nuts/threaded holes to your existing body mounts. Add a bit of gusseting to them and you don't have any of the downsides. Stock length bolts will work and no extra leverage from unsupported lift pucks.


Am I reading this right? you are saying to weld the spacer to the bottom of the body? Then just run the bolt up through? Not sure <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />



No, raise the mounts on the frame so that the lift pucks are not needed. You could cut and re-weld or re-build the mounts on the frame entirely, but you could easily make up steel spacers and weld to the existing mounts to raise them as well. Gusset them well for lateral support and you have lift, but the body will still be setting directly on the frame mounts, not on laterally-unsupported lift pucks. You're also raising the threaded hole in the frame (now in the top of the welded in spacer), so the bolts don't need to be any longer.

--Dan