My reason behind the body lift is that all the drive train parts stay stock so you don't get excessive wear. and the reason I did the level kit was to make the truck level and with the level kit you put stress on front end parts with the body lift you level the truck with out the add stress on parts and you can still put bigger tires. Actually now that I think do you get a level truck with just a body lift? There was a thread on that I think I can't find right now. And I will try rotating my tires weed thanks.

 

Not any kit I've ever seen, all lift the front the same as the back.

Body lifts are fine, it's just when I did my suspension lift I:
A) wanted to try my hand at one after doing three body lifts on my own vehicles and a couple others.
B) Was 38 at the time, bad back (two discs fused, actually) and was tired of getting bounced around while off-road working 'round the farm, fishing, hunting, etc. LOT of body lean with body lifts and lots of bouncing.

For 90% of the people a body lift is fine. I didn't mind getting bounced around the cab when I was younger, but when you start to get a little older, it gets a bit much.

Suspension lifts are expensive compared to level kits and body lifts, if you don't need one, I have no problem with anyone going a less expensive route to clear bigger tires.

What kinda gets to me after a while though are the guys who go with the big level kits, like 2.5" and bigger and then get on and b*tch about the stiff ride or the vibration or the constant replacing of tie rods, ball joints, etc. and blaming the POS truck.

These are half ton, IFS trucks with relatively small components up front and spindly CV half axles. It is what it is... But to be honest, I've seen more guys in my hunting club snap CVs on GM IFS trucks than anything else. Their CVs have more trouble with 35" tires than ours do with 37s...

 

NIce thank hammer you have been a big help. The biggest tire size I will go is 35s. I did the level not for hight but because I dislike the nose down look on a 4x4. what I would really like is to set my truck up to haul more and beef up the back to haul larger loads. I just bought a nice welder and have been reasearching on how to make a a dump bed on the truck. have you ever done this hammer?

 

Nope. I knew a guy, used to fish in some bass tourney's I was in had a conversion done to make his existing bed into a dump bed, but he had a Ford PowerStroke dually. I doubt you'll find anything commercially available for a half ton, the bed capacity and relatively small 9.25" axle wouldn't make it cost effective to manufacture one with such a low weight capacity.
Anybody needing to haul a dump load is gonna have the sense to buy at the very least a 3/4 ton...

 

Thats what I figuerd thanks for the help