I am thinking of lifting my truck again in the near future and have been looking into custom components to put together a custom long arm suspension lift of around 13". I was wondering if anyone had any advice/input/recommendations as to what to do/where to get parts etc. I have a 5" suspension right now but want to go bigger and since they don't make anything more than a 7" for a 1998 Ram 2500 it would have to be custom. Any advice and/or suggestions would be great.

 

13" on a street vehicle? Hhhhmmm... not sure that's such a good plan.

Better bet would be to chat with some of the manufacturers, and see what they have to say.

 

Oh dear God. I cant wait to see where this thread goes.

 

Yeah, dont do it.

 

You will be looking at finding a place with a coil spring bender, and having custom springs made. Finding a shop that builds leaf packs, and a custom pack for your truck. Then, a machine shop to make you upper and lower control arms, a custom pitman arm, and several other custom brackets. You will have to make your own brake lines, I don't think any of the extended brake lines out there will be long enough. Custom sway bars.

For these one off parts from the machine shop, the overhead is going to me outrageous. Making setups for one part is not cost effective.

Shocks that big? Tons of money.

 

Is 13" even legal? The max in my state is 4".

 

Why is everyone so against this? I'm aware of the parts required and have access to resources that are capable of fabricating most of the custom brackets. I was just wondering if there are companies that specialize in custom parts like oversize coils/leaf packs or if anyone had any helpful advice. I'm open to criticism but give me some reasons for it. I live in Thunder Bay, ON Canada and there are no reinforced laws against truck height, just tire size. I have several friends that have 12"+ of custom lifts in their trucks running 44"-46" tires with no problems.

 

Because...Its stupid.

A truck with 7 (or some ungodly large number) inches of lift is gonna handle like ****, drive like ****, ride like ****, look like ****, wont fit on any trail, and go through steering boxes and wheel bearings like fat guys go through a pantry.

 

K buddy well my truck already has 8" of lift and it's not ANY of those things but thanks for the opinion. Plus there's a dozen trucks bigger than mine in town that all look and handle beautifully. You can buy 12" suspension lift kits for newer trucks for **** sakes. I'm not saying I'm gonna stack hockey pucks on top of eachother. I think I posted this question in the wrong forum...

 

You should have posted this at hackfabpirate4x4. Please explain to me what 12" of lift will do for you.