I saw this on FTW today and thought you might want to see this...

Not that I'm trying to start a fuss, just sharing for FYI only. The front cross-member on the RIZE lifts does appear to "hang" down, IMO.

 

Sucks for him

 

OOps, bet he won't do that again.

 

I saw that, poor guy. Although I have to say while I was reading it I could have sworn he was about to say the damage was from a rock of some sort...it was a curb he decided to drive over

 

Haha, ya things like that happen when you drive down foot tall curbs. Clearance on the Rize crossmember isn't any different from any of the other lifts because the A arms are connecting at the bottom on all of them. In fact most of them are higher due to the fact of being able to run larger tires. Looks like this guy just made a dumb mistake.

 

I also have bent mine on my 6" fabtech do to a rock in middle of a mud hole, but not as bad, mine still operates jujst fine and holds alignment. And CANNON is right a properly lifted truck with a 6" lift is going to be lower than an 8" due to the larger tires. Only thing that is going to make an 6" A-arms higher than an 8" lift if you run the same size tire and a 2.5 spacer to the 6" lift and get some serious angles on the A-arms.

 

Mind you I am not tryin to start a lift / no lift flamewar here. There are advantages to a lift beyond a leveling kit. But from a clearance to the crossmember perspective. I would think a leveling kit with 35s for example, would have more clearance than a 4 or 6" drop crossmember type lift due to the more advanced angles of the control arms.

I've heard about some long travel suspensions that lift the truck like 6" or so, but do NOT relocate the diff. They use custom axleshafts with Porsche CVs, some wild looking control arms, and monstrous coils as I recall. Okay a little fuzzy. It's in my bathroom copy of 4 Wheel & Off Road...

Okay now having pitched for a leveling kit... An actual lift, brings the frame up higher, which gives the added benefit of improving break over angles. And I have hung frame on concrete block before trying to walk over a curb or whatnot on a construction site I was running equipment to... (I HATE doing net builds while the building is still getting walls and parking lot up! My lines tend to get cut way too often...)

 

LOL, My story would have been I was wheeling in the huge hole mud/water up to my doors and them damn something was in the bottom of the hole. Get a look around and damn look how big the rock is... Or aleast something like that...

 

josiah what kind of fuel millage do you get and i was wondering if your tires rubbed at all muddin thanks