Believe it or not, with a two post lift, I did mine by myself in 6 hours. I had help with the bed but that's it. On the 2 body bushings in the very front, you have to drill out the threads to get the new bolt to go thru but that's no biggie. My kit included the fan shroud brackets and i still had to cut mine to clear trans cooler lines.

 

Exactly what i wanted to hear!! Thanks for your imput

 

i did mine with help only to take the box off and a floor jack and i did it in around 8hrs, cant wait to do it to my new one!

 

me and my dad laid everything out, ground the heads off the bed bolts pulled the bed off and used a pipe wrench to pull the studs out. only hard part was the 2 front body bushings we had to cut those. how would a body lift make your truck ride like ****? people dont understand you didnt touch ANY of the suspension componets in a body lift. you just increased body roll while turning. i hate when dumb people say ya after my body lift my truck rides like ****? hows that possible? all you did was raised your cab off your frame 3".

 

I was running 35's on mine with just the t-bars cranked. I now have a 3" BL as well and am running 37's. The install isn't hard if you have the right tools and everything comes out and goes as planned. I did mine in about 7 hours with a friend. Used a floor jack and block of wood to lift the cab one side at a time. Like everyone said just soak the bolts before hand.

 

^ yup i soaked all my bolts in pb blaster 2x a day for a week before i did my lift.

 

Ill definitely be soaking the bolts before, im gonna need a big *** jack and a lot of wood to lift my body off. Any advice or tips you would recommend? This will be my first body lift. I think the bed should be pretty easy, im just worried about messing up anything on the cab portion of the truck.

 

Make sure you lift the bed and body at the same time, otherwise there's the chance of them contacting and doing damage. Also the bed bolts are usually the hardest part ha.

 

^ or you can just unbolt the bed (after you take off the rear bumper) and set it back some then lift the body and do the bed last.

read the instructions several times before you start it. you dont have to remove the radiator. make sure you take good measurements between the cab and bed before your start. i did all the easy things a day before i started, like taking off bumpers and removing the rear seat and removing plastic to get to the interior floor bolt.

 

Ok thanks again for the help, I really appreciate it! Ill keep you guys posted upon installing the Blift

 

Or you can just lift the cab then the bed like I did. Just have to go slow and watch what you are doing.

 

Take the steering linkage under the dash loose (make sure the steering wheel doesnt spin around after), unbolt the two coolers in front of the radiator and let them lay loose, take fan shroud loose and rest it on the fan, loosen air intake from throttle body, and there are two lines clipped to the outside of the frame on driver side (pull the lines out of the clips) undo all bolts from the cab to frame and shift linkage on transmission and you are set to lift the cab.

 

Thanks for all the help guys!

 

I like my 3" body lift. The only regret I have is the gas mileage. I have been chasing it since I installed the body lift and 33's. I have a superchips tuner (run it on the 87 tune), k&n drop in air filter, gotts intake tube mod, true dual 2.5" exhaust with highflow cats and a flowmaster muffler. Badazz truck but gets between 9.5 and 11 mpgs unless im not towing on the interstate.

I consider myself a pretty good shade tree mechanic, and it took the better part of a weekend for me to install mine with two people helping. I recomend takeing the bed completely off or removing the rear tires and scooting it back at least. Better safe than sorry and messing up the paint. Also the rear bumper relocation brackets with my PA kit had to be redrilled to get the bumper to fit nice and tight and look factory. Nothing worse than an unfinished look IMO.

 

@twlightning your tire size probably killed 99% of your mileage the body lift maybe killed 1%