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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
looking at your truck, it looks like like it lost its jaws and replaced it with a brace to hide the missing jaw for a bumper..
it looks weird, but you're happy with it.
lol.
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No. first I wouldn't put a body lift on my truck. that does cause a gap which can be corrected if you are a bit clever. this bumper is made to fit exactly as the original one did, no gap.
that front bumper wasn't really what I wanted. I wanted a pre-runner style bumper but they had a sale package for this full bull bar style and the rear bumper so I decided to take it. the pre runner style only had room for one set of off road lights. the one I took had room for two sets.
and the style I chose has two sets of PIAA lights. so I had 4wheelparts install it and wire it. I installed and wired the two sets on the bar. so it had 4 sets of off road lights.
I also had the stock headlights adjusted to stock alignment after I lifted the truck. many don't bother and then wonder why their headlights don't illuminate the road correctly. lol. I also adjusted the PIAA's .. that was hard to do but I wanted them aimed properly. same to both sets of lights in the bar. they don't do you any good if they shine on trees.
these are just a few of the details many people don't realize when they lift a truck.
and it never really stops. modify one thing and it has a ripple effect on other things. always having to upgrade something to match up. drive train, lights, even the speedo which I also had recalibrated to read correctly due to those 37x15 tires.
I custom ordered this truck. these dealers kept saying "oh we can locate it for you, no need to actually custom order it." I said go ahead and try, you will fail. I told them the only option was the color. I said ,, fire engine red, my first choice, artic white, number two, and royal blue.
nothing else was negotiable. they failed. the reason was that I optioned the 4.10 gear set where 3.55 was the standard. only two ratios available. I took the higher ratio because I knew I'd eventually lift it and put on oversize tires. if you look at gear ratio charts you can see what the effective ratio is once you lift a truck. on the chart it shows the actual ratio and you look at the new tire size and it shows you the reduction. I knew before I even bought that truck that by optioning 4.10 gears for a lousy 50 bucks upgrade where it would cost at least a thousand to change gears later I would end up with the default ratio of 3.55 with 37x15 tires. meaning the truck would not be "under-geared" after I lifted it.
that's a common problem when you put big tires on a lifted truck.
also I optioned the automatic trans, a 1,000 upgrade from the free manual trans, and the heavy duty transfer case. it had a pto option which I didn't need but it was a heavy duty transfer case from the standard. and it came with a skid plate for the transfer case. could have optioned that for standard trans case.
so the combo of automatic trans, 4.10 gears and the heavy duty trans case made this truck unique where they couldn't locate it even in the internet age.
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