http://www.bc4x4.com/faqs/yj.cfm?cat=2&faqid=8

 

haha that's awesome

 

I worked at a dealership when I was younger and saw a tj with a 3 puck stack come in on trade.

 

haha do u remember what your dealership did with it,

leave the pucks on or take them out?

 

i saw a tv show, it might have just been the news, many years ago that was showing the safty factors of lifted truck and they showed what some states have for inspections, and they showed a truck that failed because it had hockey pucks for a body lift

 

Yep, that is why. I've even seen morons try to make body lifts out of metal tubing and wood. As inexpensive as body lifts are, why on earth would you try to rig one?

 

let me put it this way, the only thing i would not do in my body lifted truck is jump it. i've offroaded pretty hard, and everything is doing fine.

 

I don't know. I mean look at all of the trucks out at Mud Fest with body lifts and jumping them.

 

Suddenly I feel like watching Slap Shot.

 

ah ha ha ha thats awesome. who the hell would do that?!

 

Works well but certain states if they see the "puck" lift will instantly impound the vehicle due to saftey reasons..... There is a good chance after drilled the puck will split on a hard enough bump I DO NOT rec this kind of lift

 

I had an older guy (and self-proclaimed mechanic) ask me why I spent a couple hundred on my lift. I, of course, told him it was cheaper than a susp. lift and I don't go offroading that much. He looked at me goofy and started telling me all about how I could just buy some hockey pucks and get it done for under $50. And here I thought he was joking :o

 

Yeah, hockey pucks are one of the old-fashioned cheapie body lifts. If you use good regulation pucks, they'll be a good quality vulcanized rubber...but the cheap ones, lord only knows what they're made of.

A single stack of regulation pucks will work just fine but will only get you a 1" lift. Don't double- or triple-stack them...you'll get too many shear points on the bolts and it'll be weak. Also, don't use the cheap Wally-World pucks since, as Jason9301 mentioned, they can split on ya and fail too.

Besides that, enough regulation pucks to do a body lift will cost just as much as a proper lift kit anyway so might as well do it right the first time.

If you live near a scrap yard, go round up a chunk of solid 3" steel shaft material, cut your blocks, and drill em. Once in place, weld them to the body mounts on the frame and use the stock rubber insulators on top of them. This is how we did a 3" lift on my '76 F150 and a friend's 76 Chevy 1/2 ton. Never had one even come close to bending or breaking and both truck got used hard. That Chevy wound up getting balled into a tree a few years after my friend sold it...the body lift was still intact even though the frame and body looked like h***.

 

I have seen 2x4's cut to make body lift "blocks", seen 1/2" plywood used for wheel spacers, maglights taped to the hoods of trucks as makeshift headlights and the list goes on. Give the man a chance to save $50 but risk his life in the process and its only a matter of time before someone takes ya up on it

 

An old neighbor of mine has an old 4x4 chevy, (dont know the model), body lifted on 4x4" box steel. They were cheap mild steel, rusted to hell, and I dont think he used graded bolts. Anyways he had it up too high to use his 4x4 so he just dropped the front drive shaft from his transfercase, Slapped 44" tires on it and used blue spray paint to cover his gray primer with "Cookie Monster" on the rear fender and "44"" on the door, much like the "donks" and their 24"

Thats why body lifts get a bad rep....thrillbillies