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Body lift
« on: August 12, 2004, 04:20:14 PM »
Ok I want to get a 2" body lift in addition to the 2" coil lift I'm doing this weekend. So far I've heard lots of good comments about the RRO...has anyone seen, used or heard anything about the Sky Manufacturing lift?  They use 2" blocks of UHMW and longer bolts instead of square tubing and two separate bolts per mounting point...


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Re: Body lift
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2004, 05:37:35 PM »
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Re: Body lift
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2004, 01:27:26 PM »
Wow that one from that site looks  alot better done then the one I ordered from Rocky Road. Atleast in that one they gave you moutns to raise the bumper. Rocky road doesnt.

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Re: Body lift
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2004, 02:57:49 AM »
You know a body lift could be the easiest and cheapest mod to make youreself ;D.  I don't know if you guys get all the snow/ >:(SALT >:( we get in buffalo but if I had bought a body kit I couldn't even use it. All my bumper hardware and most of my body studs broke when I took them off :(

  anyways I made my body lift out of the original bushings some very heavy longer bolts and a very heavy thick piece of pipe cut into 2" sections. After I broke the studs I drilled them out for the new bolts. Then I used a hole saw to fit the new washers through(had to drill larger holes in floor to acomodate washers) and that was pretty much it I made my own bumpers and new brackets but I'm pretty sure you could mod the original brackets so the stock bumpers look good.



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hole drilled with hole saw for washers did this at all the mounts the whole lift took maybe 5 hours not too bad I had the pipe laying around and I think the bolts costed like $15 or so at the local hardware store.



Oh yeah I've been using this setup for about a year now and I wheel 2-3 times a week in the summer ;D and it's my daily driver no problems ;D. Good choice on 2" lift you don't have to mod much else I just took my 4x4 boot off good luck Make it Hert!!! ;D

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Re: Body lift
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2004, 03:35:10 AM »
Man that is such a red neck job, but it is GREAT! Do it yourself, yes it is cheaper but can have risks. Anyway if you say that it works, great! From what you did it loooks like a clean mod (except all that mud under there hahaha). How did you extend the steering rod?

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Re: Body lift
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2004, 06:43:05 AM »

i didn't need to it all seemed to fit the only thing I did was pull off the 4x4 boot  ;)

I suppose it could use a wash ;D
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Re: Body lift
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2004, 02:42:06 PM »
Ive seen it in action, and it works very well for the price. But thats the LMS way of life!!!
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Re: Body lift
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2004, 06:53:41 PM »
I made my own lift of about 1.5". I think this is the ideal amount for a body lift... Much more seems like too much and the frame hangs down noticably under the body (looks cheap to me). Also, at 1.5" (2" might be the same), I didn't have to modify a thing. 6 spacers, 6 bolt extensions and that's IT.

It's been on the car for 3 years without problems. Oh, and for the bumpes, I took off the "skin" of the rear bumper and repainted it (looks way better than stock anyway), and found some foam stuff to fill in the front between the bumper and the grille... it looked fine. Only "issue" was that I had to remove the tranny boot because I didn't want to bend/destroy my shifter. Steering column, gas tank, etc. were non issues.

I have pics of the parts I used, but not with me at the moment.
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