Rough Country Lift

BobbleSmitty · Post by **BobbleSmitty** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:55 am

What is your guys' opinion on this?

http://www.roughcountry.com/Chevy_4wdS10_2in.htm

Post by **HenryJ** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:08 pm

HenryJ wrote:Let's clear up some of the confusion here.

I have not personally had experience with the 2" SL, but I did research it while on a quest for a 3" suspension lift.

There are some people running it with success, but I would speculate that they do not wheel the rig very hard, and the primary use is street driving. I am not saying you can't wheel it, just that those that are happy with it may not.

The 2" superlift is a massive T-bar crank. The indexers ("pork chops", "adjusters") are replaced with indexers that allow you to crank the t-bars up an additional two inches.

Now that they are cranked so far the upper a-arms are too short to correct the camber. As you crank the bars the a-arms (upper and lower) travel in different radius' since they are different lengths. The shorter a-arm's radius is smaller therefore as it travels downward it becomes shorter quicker. This leaves a negative camber (top of tire inward) situation and there is not enough adjustment in the excentrics to make up the difference.

The Superlift answer was to install longer upper a-arms to allow correct camber to be obtained.
As I understand it CV boots are also included since the stock boots can be a little too stiff for the angles.

Is there potential for CV , and CV boot problems from the steeper half shaft angles? I would say yes.

top_sgt · Post by **top_sgt** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:03 pm

i did a 2" body lift with about 1- 1 1/2 inch t-bar crank for less than half the cost of the 2" lift kit!!!!!!

worked for me!!!

a2b · Post by **a2b** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:55 pm

BobbleSmitty · Post by **BobbleSmitty** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:09 pm

That's what I figured! I emailed Fabtech and Rancho seeing if they had anything for the S10s, that roughcountry thing was the only other one that I found.

Post by **Walt** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:13 pm

75% of the lift shops you call will tell you that fabtech has a 5" (I think) kit for 4x4 S-10's. They do not. Several of us here have researched it and they only make a lift kit for 2wd S-10's. A guy at Big10 tried to sell me a fabtech kit one time for my CC. We opened the box and you could tell it wasn't designed for a 4x4 S-10!