McGauphy Lift VS Rough Country Lift

[John_chadra1]

John , how or what did you do to tint your headlights , I would like to do mine

John , how or what did you do to tint your headlights ?

I cut them apart with a dremel, painted all the chrome, used niteshades to tint the LED's and amber corner piece. Installed FXR projectors also.

[John_chadra1]

SO..... I got my lift last summer. I was sent the incorrect spindles, had to have them next day aired and had to pay extra labor to have them swapped out. First set of lower strut bushings were junk within the first week of driving it. I was sent new bushings and had to pay the labor to swap them out. Second set of bushing are now junk. I called and they sent me 2 new struts with "updated" bushings. They showed up yesterday and today I was having them put in. Passenger went good, drivers side something internal was junk in the new strut I just received. SO now truck is sitting apart on hoist and have to wait until tomorrow AM for another strut to show up. Mcgaughys will not help me with ANY labor cost, even though they keep sending me JUNK!!!! NOT A HAPPY CUSTOMER, WILL NEVER BUT ANOTHER MCGAUGHYS PRODUCT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUYERS BEWARE.

[bjd2014lt]

Man i would be getting a lawyer or something since theyve been sending you junk since day 1.. be mad as hell new truck and couldnt drive it

[Snubber]

I do t see why you would want a 7-9" lift just to run

[Snubber]

I just don't see why anyone would want a 7-9" lift just to run 35" tires unless your running a wide tire . My truck with a 6" fab tech looks funny to me with Mickey Thompson 35x12.50-20's . I looked at the bulletproof 12" lift and it says you can only run 38x13.50 tires with it . My buddy has a 6" lift on his f-250 and runs 38x13.50 , that sucks that you have to run twice the lift to get the same damn tire on a GM

I just don't see why anyone would want a 7-9" lift just to run 35" tires unless your running a wide tire . My truck with a 6" fab tech looks funny to me with Mickey Thompson 35x12.50-20's .they look small. I looked at the bulletproof 12" lift and it says you can only run 38x13.50 tires with it . My buddy has a 6" lift on his f-250 and runs 38x13.50 , that sucks that you have to run twice the lift to get the same damn tire on a GM,

[n i c k]

I just don't see why anyone would want a 7-9" lift just to run 35" tires unless your running a wide tire . My truck with a 6" fab tech looks funny to me with Mickey Thompson 35x12.50-20's . I looked at the bulletproof 12" lift and it says you can only run 38x13.50 tires with it . My buddy has a 6" lift on his f-250 and runs 38x13.50 , that sucks that you have to run twice the lift to get the same damn tire on a GM

I just don't see why anyone would want a 7-9" lift just to run 35" tires unless your running a wide tire . My truck with a 6" fab tech looks funny to me with Mickey Thompson 35x12.50-20's .they look small. I looked at the bulletproof 12" lift and it says you can only run 38x13.50 tires with it . My buddy has a 6" lift on his f-250 and runs 38x13.50 , that sucks that you have to run twice the lift to get the same damn tire on a GM,

Huh? Different strokes for different folks. You say 35" tires on a 7-9" lift looks stupid. I say lifting a 1/2 ton truck 12" looks 10x more retarded. You're comparing a 1/2 ton IFS truck to a 3/4 solid front axle truck. I look at the lift thing completely different than everyone else. Instead of height, I want suspension travel. But I'm not going to say someone's truck looks stupid just because what they did isn't my cup of tea. Unless of course I see a truck with a 12" lift, than I'll be vocal about how retarded it looks.

[bjd2014lt]

To each his own lol... but yea im not a fan of low profile mud tires either lol thats why i got 17s for the 35 but everyone has their own taste and style

[Snubber]

Funny is far from stupid,i never said stupid , I see your point though , I've just always thought more inches in suspension meant more inches in travel and thus bigger tires , of course I was running 38.5" mudders in 1987 with a 383 stroker 4 speed k-5 blazer and was the smallest tire guy with ESPN filming and felt little . Just like having a 5.3 in one of these trucks is not worth lifting . If I went 12" lift , on my 6.2 , you bet your bottom dollar that I would beef up everything to accommodate . There is a method behind the madness . I've just grown older and have bigger toys , I have a f-350 fx4 company truck in the oil field and drive it 240 days a year , so the gas burner sounds and feels better on my time

[Snubber]

To each his own lol... but yea im not a fan of low profile mud tires either lol thats why i got 17s for the 35 but everyone has their own taste and style

[n i c k]

I've just always thought more inches in suspension meant more inches in travel and thus bigger tires

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. When someone puts a suspension lift on their truck, they are not gaining more suspension travel. Look at a trophy truck. They are not lifted and are cycling 30+" of wheel travel. A stock GM truck is going to have at most 5-6" of travel. It's limited because of the upper control arms and ball joints. Switch out the stock upper control arm to something that can use a uniball and coilovers and you will get a couple more inches of travel. Switch out the lower control arm, tie rods, and axle with those that use uniballs and heim joints, then you get a few more inches of travel. And the truck afterwards is only a couple inches taller. It's how the Ford Raptor works so well off-road. A Raptor isn't lifted more than a couple inches and it will blow the doors off any suspension lifted truck once the pavement ends. Stock, a Raptor cycles 11" up front and close to 13" in the rear. That's why you see videos and pics of people jumping their Raptor and nothing is breaking. I go to Baja several times a year. That place will snap a lifted truck in half. You don't need the ground clearance to preserve your truck, you need to absorb the terrain instead, and it's done through adding more suspension travel. These lifts everyone is putting on range from $600-$1300. A legit mid travel kit that allows up to 12" of front wheel travel will cost you over $3k, and that does not include the $2k in shocks. And that's only the front.

[Snubber]

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. When someone puts a suspension lift on their truck, they are not gaining more suspension travel. Look at a trophy truck. They are not lifted and are cycling 30+" of wheel travel. A stock GM truck is going to have at most 5-6" of travel. It's limited because of the upper control arms and ball joints. Switch out the stock upper control arm to something that can use a uniball and coilovers and you will get a couple more inches of travel. Switch out the lower control arm, tie rods, and axle with those that use uniballs and heim joints, then you get a few more inches of travel. And the truck afterwards is only a couple inches taller. It's how the Ford Raptor works so well off-road. A Raptor isn't lifted more than a couple inches and it will blow the doors off any suspension lifted truck once the pavement ends. Stock, a Raptor cycles 11" up front and close to 13" in the rear. That's why you see videos and pics of people jumping their Raptor and nothing is breaking. I go to Baja several times a year. That place will snap a lifted truck in half. You don't need the ground clearance to preserve your truck, you need to absorb the terrain instead, and it's done through adding more suspension travel. These lifts everyone is putting on range from $600-$1300. A legit mid travel kit that allows up to 12" of front wheel travel will cost you over $3k, and that does not include the $2k in shocks. And that's only the front.

[2014Sandylifted]

Damn I got some reading to do

[Snubber]

Trophy trucks are fiberglass and tricks are for kids , I from the mountains of East Tennessee and currently up in the Appalachians , Baja is like oil and water where I live and love , I thonk bigger lift= BIGGER TIRES

[bjd2014lt]

I think everyone is getting a little off track of the title of the post lol

Edited March 10, 2015 by bjd2014lt

[stamgd1909]

so far my new bushings have been solid, I check them all the time......if these go bad I'll switch them out with bilstein's