- Hey guys.
Shaun again. Custom Offsets.
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Got another episode of "Shit I Never Knew".
Today we are gonna rock episode 11.
And Episode 11 is coming to you
from one of our viewers
and Junior, make sure you
put the viewer name on the screen right now,
because I forgot to look,
but we will definitely give them props.
And it's gonna be lift kits 401
The more
you know,
The more
you know.
We are getting a lot of requests
and I've run into this myself
I go to the Walmart meet
with my brand new lifted
Chevy Silverado pick up truck,
And they're like,
"Hey man what'd y'all do blah blah blah"
And I'm like,
"You know the the rotary gurter and the flux compacitor"
I basically start making up terms
hoping nobody there knows
what I'm talking about,
because I have no clue
how my truck got lifted
six inches into the air.
So we had people commenting
and saying, "Can you just tell us more in detail?"
So Junior if you kinda show em this front bench here.
We pulled an entire six inch lift kit.
Now this is for like an '88 to '98 I think.
'88 to '98 GM 1500.
I think this is a heavy half ton.
So this is just one example.
We're gonna bring back
a newer body style vehicle also,
and pull that lift kit apart
and show you that one.
Because they are significantly different.
There are a lot of components with this lift kit.
For this older style torsion
four to six inch lift
and this would be the six inch.
So this one's pretty intense.
This one applies to this vehicle,
but in general,
it should still apply to all makes and models
for a torsion set up,
and I'll tell you lots more about that.
But what we're gonna do is
we're gonna break this thing
into like three parts.
So part one
we're gonna go through
what are the parts
by name
and where about for location.
and we'll do the squiggly lines meaning about.
And then what we're gonna do is
we're gonna come back
and we're gonna show you
Installed
Installed on truck.
So we got this truck all tore apart,
We've got the parts laying here
that are ready to go in,
we're gonna show you roughly
where they're gonna go,
Then we're gonna come back
when the truck's all done,
but the wheels are still off of it
And we're actually gonna show you the parts again
by name
where they are on the truck.
To me,
that has been the best way
for me to learn this stuff.
So I'm hoping that works out for you guys also.
So Junior, I'll hold up the part.
This is gonna be your front skid plate.
Then I'm gonna take it over
and put it where it's gonna go on the truck.
So this thing's gonna end up
right up front here.
You got that?
Then we have our steering assembly
and this one has a steering stabilizer,
because it's a little bit
of an upgraded kit.
Not every kit is going
to come with that.
And then it's got a steering assembly.
So this whole chunk
is gonna go up inside of here.
So it's gonna go
basically above that cross member.
You can't see that,
but the factory steering is up there,
and this is what you need
in order to drop that steering down.
Almost every part you're gonna see
has about this much drop,
because if you think about it,
this is the front cross member
That's gonna lower your lower control arms.
So this is the distance.
This is where they used to be bolted in.
This is where they'll be bolted in now.
You cannot measure that and say,
"Oh I've got a four and three quarter inch truck.
Or lift kit.'
That's not how it works.
This plus the angles
is what creates the six inch lift.
So you can't just start measuring components
and acting like you know what you're talking about.
I've seen people do it on the gram
and it doesn't make any sense.
Next we have the front cross member.
Screwing up all my things here.
So we have the front cross member.
This is our steering assembly.
This bad boy
You're gonna remove the cross member
that's in there now.
You're gonna put this one in.
And what this is gonna do,
Is this is gonna bolt in there,
where your lower control arm used to bolt in,
and it's gonna bolt the lower control arm here.
What it's doing essentially,
is dropping that entire suspension.
So it's dropping those lower control arms.
And that's the piece that's gonna do that.
You have some small components like this,
which are gonna be extensions
for your brake line brackets.
That's just the little stuff.
Brake line brackets.
And then...
You have these guys.
I'll show you these next.
These are gonna be your upper control arm.
So this is your upper control arm.
This is your lower control arm.
Upper ball joint.
Lower ball joint.
This piece is going in there.
I have no idea which way.
Probably like this.
If I even have the right side.
But this will go in there,
and it's gonna bolt in here.
You're gonna cut out this droop stop,
and that's gonna drop that upper control arm.
Cause remember the cross member
I just showed you dropped the front of this.
Now that one I just showed you
is dropping front and back.
Now the next step is
you gotta drop the rear of that.
And that's where your rear cross member comes in.
So this big sum bitch is gonna go in there.
And again here's your old holes,
and then this is gonna be the new ones,
where your lower control arm's gonna bolt in.
And remember,
This is a quick 101 on the parts.
You are not gonna be able to follow this video
and install a kit.
They all come with detailed instructions
from the manufacturer
that walk you through exactly how to do it.
What people have asked me is,
"Can you gimme a rough idea
of what everything does?"
And that's what we're gonna do.
So this skid plate would go
underneath that front diff.
These two guys are gonna drop
that front diff.
You'll see everything is
basically dropping that distance.
And what that does is
it's pushing that whole suspension down,
which pushes that truck up into the air.
Skid plate.
This truck is a torsion bar system.
So if you don't know anything about that,
we've covered it in previous videos.
But what it does is it uses these torsion bars,
which run from your lower control arm back.
And when you twist those,
it creates your angle
and moves your truck up and down.
So that's where you get your suspension from
is these torsion bars.
So the torsion bar system is gonna have
shocks in the front
and shocks in the back.
So this comes with replacement front shocks.
For the front.
Which'll go right in here
in your shock towers
'Cause remember this knuckle's gonna reconnect
to the ball joint.
So that gets us to here.
Cross member.
This particular kit came with some kicker bars.
Those are just gonna be an added support
for this rear cross member
so you don't get any kinda twisting up front.
These types of things can sometimes be optional.
They have more of a heavy duty kit
that has these
and then they have kits that don't have these.
This is gonna be your diff spacer.
So this guy,
you're actually dropping
this cross member here.
Where your
let me make sure I'm saying that right.
He already has it out doesn't he?
Here.
So this is where your torsion bars come through
and your keys.
You're basically dropping that,
and then these are gonna be the braces
where the spacers.
And now your torsion bars,
instead of going over the top
of this class member,
now they're gonna come underneath it.
So you got the spacer,
you got your cross member,
and your torsion bars now drop.
And that's why a lot of times
when you look at these lift kits,
once they're in there
you can suddenly see those torsion bars,
And a lot of guys will paint them up,
because otherwise we got those big ugly torsion bars
all rusted up
hanging down below visible now.
I think that shows you the whole front.
So we're basically to here on the truck now.
You've dropped that whole front end.
So let's do a quick review.
Skid plates,
You've got your front and rear cross members,
which are dropping your lower control arms.
You've got your upper control arm dropped.
Let me show you those.
Upper control arm drop brackets.
And then you get your rear cross member.
These guys are helping drop your actual differential.
So those are the drop diff brackets.
You have your front shocks.
Your kicker bars,
which may or not be included.
And this is gonna be your torsion bar drop.
So this goes on that very rear
the torsion bar cross member.
And that drops the whole front of the truck.
Which creates the six inch lift.
So from there it gets way easier.
The rear is much much much more of a simple animal.
So the rear of the truck
you basically have your extended shocks.
So now instead of having the factory sized shocks,
you have the ones that are extended.
Sometimes there'll be kits
that don't have this,
and they'll just have a shock extension.
I prefer to always replace the shocks.
Then you have your block.
So you've taken out the factory block.
Whatever size that was.
And now this new, larger block
is gonna go in there.
And that's what's gonna give you more height.
Sometimes this block
and these U-bolts
will be the entire lift for the rear.
This particular kit
he did the upgrade.
And did an Add-a-leaf.
And so when you do the Add-a-leaf,
you're adding another leaf in there,
which gives you another two inches.
So when this one's all said and done,
this one is actually going to have a two inch rake still.
So the truck will be two inches up,
because he did the Add-a-leaf system.
So that is how simple the rear is.
Like I said,
you have your rear shocks,
your rear blocks and U-bolts,
and then this one
he did an Add-a-leaf.
That's super common.
Sometimes they'll replace that whole leaf pack.
It really depends on the kit.
I'm not even getting into the other ones.
We'll stick with this one.
Think that's everything.
Next up,
we are going to build this thing,
and then we'll come back
and we'll show it to you again.
Junior, is there anything else
you would want to know?
- [Junior] I'm gonna say you got it all.
- 'Cause basically your axle's just hanging here,
and you're just gonna create more space
than what it had from the factory,
which pushes that axle down
and pushes that truck up into the air.
Hopefully that helped.
We will put all these parts in,
and then we will come back
and I'll take these same exact tags,
And we'll basically put 'em
next to the truck throughout,
so that you guys can get used to it.
If there's parts we didn't hit on this one,
let us know.
Definitely put it in the comments,
and then when we bring back the newer vehicle
with the newer style kit,
we can actually touch on those specific parts.
Now I wanna be careful.
I don't want you to look at these parts,
and say "Well man. There's only one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, two dozen parts here.
I can just throw this lift kit in myself.
We have to mention, there are bags and bags and bags
and bags and bags and bags and bags and bags and bags
and bags and bags of hardware.
So this is not
throw a couple parts on my truck
and it's gonna be lifted
and it's gonna be badass.
We're going to the meet.
Heading over to the Walmart.
It's gonna be sweet.
This is something,
in our opinion,
that a professional should do.
So don't take this video and go,
"Shit that's easy.
I'm doing it tomorrow."
(Hard Rock music)
- Okay that's that you guys.
So basically we have lift kits 401 again.
The more you know, the more you know.
We already went through the parts name and location.
Now it's time to show you what
that stuff looks like on the truck.
So I got my fancy flash cards
from when we had them laying on the table.
Now I'll just kinda show you
where it ended up on the truck,
so you can kinda get the feel
and the idea of what these six inch lift kits end up doing.
So the first one we had
was that skid plate.
So as you can see
this is that front skid plate.
Right on the front of the truck.
Then we have that steering assembly.
So I don't know if Junior's gonna be
able to look up inside of there.
I think if you look through this corner here,
right here is that steering assembly.
That basically brings all of that down,
so that you can then link up
to your tire rods and what not.
The steering stabilizer,
that one is for
when you have the factory setup.
With this dropped
that actually doesn't work.
So the customer brought
that in as an add on.
He'll be able to return that.
Because basically,
you cannot use it for this setup.
The brake line bracket extensions.
So these are right here.
You can see it just pulled
that brake line out and then down,
so that it was extended.
The front cross member,
you can see is right here.
So bolted into where the lower control arm used to bolt up
Now that cross member has dropped it,
and this is that new front cross member
that the skid plate's protecting.
Upper control arm drop.
So up here, remember,
I'll get on the other side of you Junior.
This is our upper control arm.
So here's where they used to bolt in
and this drop has been put in.
Moving that thing down
and also there used to be
a droop stop right here.
So that's been cut off
and thrown into the scrap pile over there.
And now there's this new stop
that's hanging off of the rear cross member.
So you can see that new stop there.
Front shocks.
Pretty obvious.
Rear cross member is this guy here.
So if you shoot in this angle, Junior.
You'll see that rear cross member is now in there.
And again,
that took this lower control arm
from right here.
Moved it down.
And that's also where our kicker bars are connecting to.
And that's what also starts to begin.
I don't know if you can get in here Junior.
Starts to begin our diff drop.
So you can see the diff is
now connected to that rear cross member
and there's another skid plate here.
So that was our other skid plate,
that larger one.
And then the drop diff brackets.
I don't think you're gonna be able to see those.
Those are way up inside of here,
and they're basically connected to the top
of the brackets coming off that front diff.
Torsion bars.
So remember these are your torsion bars.
This is what sets your ride height.
It's basically your suspension.
And these are the drop brackets
That basically take
this cross member down that distance.
So you can see that's pushing that one down.
Kicker braces.
This is kind of a special option
for this vehicle.
So you can see those go up
to that rear cross member,
and then just bolt in.
So that kinda holds that whole front end
from being able to shift back.
And then we go to the rear of the truck.
So you have your rear shocks replaced
with an extended shock
so that it has that extra travel
for the six inch.
And then here's your rear blocks
that you saw laying on the table.
And the U-bolts.
New U-bolts holding that in there.
And as far as the Add-a-leaf,
we didn't add that,
because this is a heavy half ton.
So it already has the larger leaf pack in the rear.
If we were to put that in,
it would really rake that vehicle another two inches,
and the customer actually wanted it level.
So we left out that rear leaf pack
once we got back here
and saw that it's already got
the heavy duty rear leaf packs.
The more you know, the more you know.
You guys keep asking questions.
Like I said,
Junior, again give 'em props
for who asked about this one,
because as you guys ask us
what you want to know,
we'll either share what we already know,
or go learn what you're asking
And we'll keep bringing it to you
for wheel fitment.
Keep bringing it to you for suspension.
That is what a six inch lift looks like
once it's installed.
The next one we'll do
will be that new body style
Chevy Silverado six inch.
And we'll try to also do the Ford F150 six inch
that we can show you that one.
And then we might also might get into
some of the BVS kits
and some of that
and show you those components
with coil overs
and some of the beefier stuff.
Traction bars and whatnot.
So stay subscribed.
Make sure you're sharing the videos
so that your friends can gather this knowledge
'cause it's all free anyways.
Peace.
(Hard Rock music)