- You want rookie tips on life
to avoid simple mistakes, right?
Don't piss into the wind.
Stop setting exemptions to 35 and your tax forms,
and get mad when you have to pay it at the end of the year,
and understand that in Starbucks,
you're paying for the service, not the coffee.
But what about the professional life tips, right?
The ones that politely tell you that 12 year old briefs
when you get into the dating pool,
just aren't gonna cut it.
LLC versus sole proprietorships
do have their own pros and cons
if you wanna start your own business,
if you know what I'm saying.
And there are some sophisticated mistakes that you can make
when you're actually lifting your truck.
I'm Dustin, Dusti.Co on Instagram if that's your fancy.
And today we're talking about mistakes
that even the professionals make
when they're lifting their trucks
for like the second or third or fourth,
or fifth, or six times.
Let's get it.
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Also drop a comment down below on the rookiest (beep)
you guys have ever seen
when it comes to a lift kit at a truck meet,
or maybe you've done it yourself on your first truck.
I wanna hear it, I wanna see them, put them below.
Professional mistakes are a little bit more
in depth than rookie mistakes
because when you lift like two to three trucks a week
for something like eight years like Cody Banker,
you tend to learn a thing or two
about those fancy little chunks of metal
that make your truck look cooler.
First things first, right?
For all you garage builders out there, right?
Do it yourselfers, the built not bought guys
and the ones that take pride in building your truck
in your very own garage,
here's something to remember.
You building your truck in the garage,
may mean that it may not always fit
out of the garage, right?
Hell even Sean had to literally cut his garage door
after he built CO2 way back in the day
when Custom Offsets was starting,
because we were doing one of our first builds
with a big five inch rough country lift kit
with some 22 by 12 Cali off-road busteds
and some Atturo 35s,
the good old days of 2015 man.
22s they were huge.
That was the market. They were big.
Now you get those stock.
Truck looked sick in the garage,
but when we went to roll it outside, we couldn't.
Now, laugh all you want, but this is a pretty common thing.
A lot of builds go up on jack stands, right?
They get a lift, they get bigger wheels and tires,
and then you forget the garage clearance
is actually a real thing
so you go to roll your truck out the garage
and then it just doesn't fit.
You're gonna want to keep that in mind
as you're building your truck
and understand the total height
after you'll put the lift and the wheels and tires in
so that way you don't have to go back in time
to get your truck out of the garage.
Here's another little bit more fancier one, right?
When lifting your truck,
you're typically trying to fit larger wheels and tires.
I mean, after all, that's why we put lift kits on
in the first place.
When that happens, there's a few things
that you're going to want to keep in mind
but one of the bigger ones here
is that your speedometer calibration
is going to change likely quite a bit more
than you would typically anticipate.
35s on your common 1500 platforms
are gonna change your speedometer
somewhere between five and seven miles per hour
at lower speeds.
Now, if you kick it up to the old five mile per gallon,
but 50 smiles per gallon range on the highway,
and you're gonna see double digit variances
of sometimes 12 to 13 miles an hour.
But this video isn't about wheels and tires
it's about lift kits, right?
So here's how that actually affects your lift kit.
The added lifted bigger wheels and tires
are gonna equal more pressure
on your wheels, tires, and suspension, Customoffsets.com,
which is gonna accelerate the wear of your suspension items.
And it's going to change the suspension geometry
of your steering components.
Most notably we're talking things like ball joints,
tie rod ends, steering gearboxes,
and ladder links and stuff like that.
And getting your truck up and down to speed,
hauling stuff around, using it for its intended purpose,
puts an exponential strain on those pieces
and if you're not prepared
to handle those maintenance issues,
you're probably gonna be pissed.
People know that there's an increased strain, right?
When you add bigger wheels and tires and a lift kit,
but they just don't understand how much of a strain
it can actually add because of the sheer weight
of the wheels and tires,
which, then get put on otherwise OEM components.
Now, when you transfer that weight
through the taller body of a truck,
what you're gonna get us higher pressure points than OEM.
Now that weight transfer is gonna compound
depending on if you're driving like a grandpa
or if you're like Ricky Bobby
and you just really wanna go fast, right?
And that's really gonna tell you how quickly you'll learn
the pain of repair bills,
which goes into just that even pros sometimes forget
that upgrading a lift kit is a constant modification.
Now we know, right?
You wanna slap it all in and forget about it,
but you can't because you're just trying to do things right
and so you buy all the steering adjustment modifications,
you upgrade your steering gear box,
you install new ball joints.
You still have to get annual alignments, right?
You're still going to need to check that lift kit annually
or even semi-annually
to ensure that that kit still
at a good Doug torque specs, right?
Everyone should know by now that metal expands
and contracts with temperatures
and if you're in a place like the north
where it's even more cold in winter and warm in the summer,
you're gonna get it even worse.
As the truck goes through its adolescent period of life,
and then enters the temper tantrum teenager years,
you're gonna wanna check on it
to make sure that everything is still torque to spec.
Dealerships do this with their inspection processes
for new vehicles
and adding a lift kit really is no different.
Adding in a cold garage, right?
With some shitty lighting
and a couple four, five, 10 Busch Lattes
with your buddies
and you're probably gonna find during a silver review
the next day that you missed a bolt
or maybe just completely forgot to torque something to spec.
We did this on my car yard actually.
Fun fact, we put all together, put the wheels on,
and then we forgot the torque one of the wheels,
which means that when I got like three hours away,
I lost a bunch of lug nuts.
It was scary.
Lift kits are fabricator modification
and even though we've made it easy with buying an entire kit
through one product page on the website,
there's still more to it
that people just sometimes overlook.
Now, you can go through the basics of buying good shocks,
adjusting your headlights,
and maybe learning that a four and a half inch lift kit
isn't exactly four and a half inches
of total lift because each manufacturer
has a little bit different definition of height
which sounds like a typical issue with most measurements
in the truck industry.
But those are just basic rookie stuff, right?
That's stuff that happens with your first lift kit.
The professional stuff gets overlooked,
even when you're on your second or your third or your fourth
truck build because we're buying and selling trucks
so often, or, we're just disregarding the old project
and jumping into a brand new truck build
and we don't think that we need to do maintenance
on a brand new truck because it's well, it's new.
Fact of the matter here is that's just simply not the case.
Consistent care for a lift kit and proper management
of how that added weight and height
are super important things to keep in mind
and mentally prepare yourself for, right?
I mean, managing those expectations,
understanding that you're going to have to put some money
aside for those maintenance items
and overall just putting all of those pieces together
should get you a much, much more in-depth experience
with your lift kits.
Or don't, I'm not your dad,
but eventually it's gonna catch up to you, so there's that.
But what do you guys think is the most overlooked tip
when it comes to installing a lift kit?
Let us know down in the comments section below,
and if you're looking for after-market wheels
or tires or suspension,
be sure to hit us up over at Customoffsets.com.
I'm Dustin for Custom Offsets, we'll see you guys later.
Peace!
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