2wd lift kit

[fowjacob]

Is there a lift kit for a C2500 2wd I havent been able to find one online. Would love your input

 

[89Suburban]

Body lift.

 

[elstm3]

I have been looking into this also. So far i have found no actual kit, but you can piece it together.

The rear is easy, blocks, springs or a shackle flip.

The front is a little harder.

A couple options:

Coil spacer, not preferable but easy. a 1 inch spacer yeilds about a 3 inch lift.
$50-60

lift coil springs from www.aribagit.com a 2 or 3 inch spring, dont know how good they are but might work. Cost about $140 plus shipping

With these two options you need to use an upper ball joint spacer to help correct the steep angle. can be found at airbagit.com.

airbagit.com also has lift control arms, but i have not heard anything as to the quality.

Fabtech use to have a lift coil and lift control arms but they are discontinued.

Now if you wanted to get a little more lift or lift without the springs you could use a 4.5 inch lift spindle for a chevy c2500. You also need the same year brakes, ball joints and tie rod ends.

 

[89Suburban]

Just to put my 2 cents in, I tried the rubber coil spacers, and coil spring wedges from the help section on an old Dodge D-100. Don't waste your money on that stuff. First bump I hit one of those things popped out of a spring and went sailing into oncoming traffic, lol!!!

 

[elstm3]

LOL same thing happened to my friend. They are not the best. The only way i would use them if i make a strap or something to hold it to the spring and the control arm.

I have been pondering making a spacer that would weld in and just make the pocket 1 inch less deep and then add a short piece of pipe to extend the spring pocket back up to a stock depth, if that makes sense.

 

[fowjacob]

LOL same thing happened to my friend. They are not the best. The only way i would use them if i make a strap or something to hold it to the spring and the control arm.

I have been pondering making a spacer that would weld in and just make the pocket 1 inch less deep and then add a short piece of pipe to extend the spring pocket back up to a stock depth, if that makes sense.

i think daystar might have one that bolts in i think.

http://www.summitracing.com/search/Product-Line/Daystar-Comfort-Ride-Polyurethane-Coil-Spacer-Lifts/

 

[fowjacob]

Body lift.

im not the biggest fan of the body lift, mostly because the tanks look light there just hangin on a SB

 

[78 Chevyrado]

I lifted my 78 C20 2".

I found out what springs I had on the front and upgraded them. in my case I had 3/4 ton LD springs so upgraded to 1-ton HD springs. then had to put a 1.5" block in the rear leafs.

The way chevy truck COIL springs work is like this:
LD= light duty
HD=heavy duty

1/2 ton LD springs are just that... light duty
1/2 ton HD springs are the SAME as 3/4 ton LD spring
3/4 HD springs are the same as 1-ton LD springs
Then there are 1-ton HD springs.

AFAIK that are all the same height springs, just stiffer. I upgraded my 78 c20's 3/4 ton LD COIL springs to 1-ton HD springs and netted about a 2" lift in the front. then i put 1.5" blocks in the back.

What's the policy on here about linking to thread I may have created or not on other sites? I have a build thread somewhere, but don't want to piss someone off right after joining.

 

[crazy4offroad]

Do it man, if they give you any **** I'll vouch for ya lol.

 

[78 Chevyrado]

I'll do it then. Here's my in depth build thread, from 2008 up till last week.

78 Chevyrado's Build Thread

 

[GCncsuHD]

im not the biggest fan of the body lift, mostly because the tanks look light there just hangin on a SB

So raise the tanks...it's easy to do. I hate seeing body lifted square bodies with tanks hanging low.

 

[78 Chevyrado]

I came across these old pics of mine. here's the difference HD 1 ton coils up front and 1.5 lift blocks made for my truck

Before:

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[GCncsuHD]

After

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Looked so good your truck made a mess of itself.

 

[89Suburban]

 

[78 Chevyrado]

It was scared, never been that far off the ground before... ha!