So today we're going through something brand new,
this is going to be the five inch zone kit
for the 2020 GM 2500 trucks.
Now these trucks are really similar
to the 11 to 19 trucks but,
just different enough that there's a whole
lot of different components,
and the kits don't cross over.
So this is gonna be one of the very few
that is out there on the market right now, from Zone,
and we'll just go through the parts
real quick and show you what we got goin on.
So, from down here, we've got their,
obviously the Zone skid plate with their new logo in it,
which is just the big Z cutout.
Over here we've got the Fox Adventure Series shocks,
now these are the basic option,
there's no Nitro shocks or Fox 2.0's
available for this Application,
but the Adventure Series actually are a little bit tougher,
valve a little bit different for something this heavy.
We've got new rear blocks and new holds for these trucks.
Some sway bar, some longer sway-bar end-links here,
and you'll see that they are the plastic
grease able style with the Uniball in there.
Some bump stop brackets,
here we got the diff drop you'll see is very similar
to the older trucks.
Same with the cross members,
this is all pretty much
par for the course with these kits.
Now this is something we haven't seen a whole lot of.
This is more common in the older trucks,
but this is gonna be a torsion bar drop.
So there's no brackets like you'd normally
see on the newer trucks they keep
the torsion bars up out of the way.
This does drop the torsion bars.
We've got the brackets for those here.
Some hardware, we've got the new lip knuckles,
and,
Zone,
this kit is actually going to be coming
with the braided steel brake lines.
So, a lot of components in here,
but you'll see BDS doesn't actually have a kit out yet.
Zone one they launched first
but with brake lines and Fox shocks,
you kind of see a little mixture of BDS stuff
tricking down into the Zone market.
So,
I'm gonna get this thing put on
and we'll show you what it looks like
when it's all done.
All right guys,
so we got the five inch Zone installed in this 2020 Duramax,
let's go through everything just
kinda show you what it looks like.
So we'll start out here with obvious,
we've got the lift knuckle right here.
Fun fact we did put the stock 20's
on here to roll it around
and they do clear everything
so you will be able to run the stock 20's
if you want to, on this kit.
No modification to tie rod or anything
like that necessary as typical with 2500 trucks.
We've got the new sway-bar end-link right here,
again this is a new design for 2020,
so your not going to see that on the older trucks,
everything else is gonna be pretty similar.
We've got front and rear drop cross members,
we've got our diff drop up in here.
All of that is basically the same as the older trucks,
skid plate down here,
the Zone kit like we touched on before
does come with a new brake line,
and the Fox Adventure Series shocks,
so that is a new upgrade for these trucks.
And then the big difference
if we go down here a little bit, is going to be,
the cross member drop for the torsion bars.
So,
these are the brackets that drop
the torsion bar cross member,
again most of the older kits were the high clearance
where you had the bracket
on top of the lower control arm,
this just drops that whole thing down.
It's a little bit simpler way to do it
and not whole lot of engineering.
You'll see in the front it's a hard,
hard to engineer the no torsion bar drop
so they went this route with this kit.
Again,
very simple because these are loose-sprung trucks,
we've got blocks in the rear, new U-bolts,
the Fox Adventures Series shocks back here,
and then a few brackets on the differential
to raise the brake lines, things like that.
One thing you'll notice with the rear blocks
is their a little bit different design
than you typically see,
there's going to be two holes in top,
one to keep it centered, one to push the axle forward,
obviously at this height you wanna push the axle forward,
and they are labeled for your convenience
driver and passenger so that's kinda nice,
you don't put these in backwards.
So, that just about raps it up,
I'm gonna throw the wheels on,
and we'll get some shots of it on the ground
so you can see how good the CV angles are up front.
But other than that, that raps it up.
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