budget build

just put the money in the right places. shocks are a must! you can buy a decent welder for around 300-400. just cut the front bump stop mount out. it causes the rough ride and the bottoming out. flip the lower ball joint in the front and put in a shorter shock. not an expensive set of toxic shocks or something like that. they are just normal shocks that are shorter with their sticker on it. they did all the homework and found out what shock is shorter off of what car and will fit on your truck. just run over to the parts store and measure and find a shock that is shorter. and crank down and reindex the torsion bars. in the rear, do a 3" block, not a 4". ive seen many 4" block shatter. i dont trust them. take your leafs springs apart and just install the overload leaf on top of the main leaf. and some air shocks to round out the budget. the whole notch thing is something that you will have to figure out on your own. do you want some big ass piece of stuff in your bed or do you want to keep your bedfloor for hauling stuff? if you want to keep your bed floor you can make a weld in half notch. heres where some of that "knowledge or skill level" comes in handy if you have it. you can get a 4" piece of pipe and cut it in half and make 2 "C"s. put a strip of metal across the top of the frame for added support. then just cut a half circle out of the frame and weld in the "C". just dont get too happy and go way up into the frame. just a little notch is plenty. that will give you the added travel without cutting your bed floor. had a friend do this and he was pegging reflectors and it rode like a cadillac

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Ouch! All my suspension components only cost me $365! Then by the time you add 5 hours labour and taxes and everything,my entire static drop ended up costing me $685.

i static dropped mine for about 26 bucks... i would have put that 685 towards a nice bag setup!

werd

when i static dropped my truck all i had to pay for was lowering blocks... they were under $30.00.

i cranked down the torsion bars took out some leafs and used 3 inch blocks. its low but it doesnt ride good. it only costed about $35 too.

I also cranked my torsions and I used 5inchs of block,removed 2 leaf springs and I was good.Then I ordered some shorter shocks from AIM. not the best quality but the ride got a lil bit better.

5 inch blocks your pinion must be at a 90% angle...lol...i picked up that set of z71 (in the general discussion thread) with tires for 80 bucks......

If you use a power doorlock actuator or trunk release actuator it will work for about one week max before they burn out. Do it properly and buy an Autoloc kit. I can't count the number of times I've replaced systems like that.