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Old 07-24-2010, 10:39 PM
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K here is another lame question: I have no idea whether or not my truck has a lift kit on it, I have been told it does but I know dodges come pretty tall stock. I do have 31x10.50 tires on, I really dont think it does! But is there any easy give aways by looking underneath at the suspension?
 
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Here is a pic of it if that helps...
 
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ohh i like your truck. may have a leveling kit i can really tell if its lifted or not.
 
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Old 07-24-2010, 11:14 PM
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haha I like yours too :-) Hmmm ok just curious lift kits are atleast 1200 though right?

So I researched what types of leveling kits are out there, coil spacers, torsion keys and strut extenders. While reading it all is basically just additional/replacement parts, all of which I am not sure I would be able to distinguish. A mechanic should know their stuff enough to where they could tell me right?
 
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It looks like yours has a little more gap in the wells, it may have some kind of lift in there. Depends what kind of lift you're looking at. Body lifts are somewhere a little more than 200 i think and suspension lifts that I know of go near 1500, which i think it nuts anyway.
 
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Meaure to your wheel wells in the front and rear
 
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Look at the pic in my sig, stock height for a 4x4 with the same size tires. Yours look higher for sure
 
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Yea no kidding, nice bike by the way.
K from the top of the tread to the bottom of the wheel well flares (dont know if they are called that but the lip on the wheel well basically) is 6inches in front and 9 inches in rear.
Or if you meant from the middle of the tire up to the top of the wheel well is 7 inches in front and 11 in rear.

Also if it makes any difference I definitely am getting new tires this fall, not that great of tread on them.
 
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measure from the ground to the bottom edge of the flare for me. your first measurements had a 3in differance and a 4in on the second. from the ground through the center of the wheel to the flare. ill go measure mine now.
 
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With that kind of sweep, I'm going to guess you have a 2 inch body lift on it rather than some kind of leveling kit. Crawl under the truck and see if you see 2 inch blocks on each of the body mounts.
 


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