- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets.
We got another episode.
This is gonna be lifts and levels on this 2017
2500HD Duramax Chevy.
This is a High Country.
This is the big boy,
and it's going to be getting a six-and-a-half inch BDS kit.
Pa-cha.
♫ Big trucks, decked out
♫ Welcome to the world and they flex'd out
♫ Rims so big and the windows black
♫ Got the life all lit up, double chromed-out stacks
♫ Yeah, we're gonna get 'em dirty
♫ But still they so clean
♫ Custom Offsets 'til your fence is a chain
♫ We on top of it now, we ain't never gon' fix it
♫ You better get ready, we're takin' over the jam
(tranquil music)
(drilling)
(tranquil music)
(drilling)
(tranquil music)
- So we just finished up this 2017 Chevy 2500HD Duramax.
This one got the six-and-a-half inch BDS lift kit on it,
and we're just gonna take a look at it now
with it all installed on the truck
so you can see all the parts
and see how they work together.
I always start on the front and then work my way back.
Obviously the first thing you see here,
which I always point out, is gonna be the BDF lift knuckles,
and you can see it puts this ball joint
at a really nice, neutral angle.
That's what you want in a lift kit.
To have the best ride possible is you want
all your angles to be as unstressed as possible.
And as well, you can see the extended sway bar end links
that BDS gives you.
You look down below, you can see
the crossmember drops for the bottom.
And come over here, and look at the bottom.
You can see-- you're gonna want to see the CV axle angles.
You can see the angles of the CV axles.
They're not binding up.
They're not at too extreme of an angle there.
So that's what you're going to get
with all the brackets that the kits include.
And then of course we've got Fox shocks up front as well.
BDS gives you these braided stainless brake lines,
which are obviously longer than the factory ones,
so you're not going to overextend the brake lines.
You can also see here, part of their high clearance kit
for the torsion barred trucks.
You can see where they relocated the torsion bar
rather than going into the lower control arm
like it does factory.
They give you this new bracket,
and it actually relocates it higher
so you don't have to drop the torsion bars down
like you did on the old-school kits.
And in the back,
this customer decided to just go with the block in the back.
So we just got your standard lift block
in the back, a forged block.
And then Fox 2.0 shocks in the back as well
to round off the kit.
And then I think there's just some brake line
relocation brackets in the back.
But I mean, overall, you can see how much the stance
has changed with a six-and-a-half inch lift.
A really aggressive look now.
You can see we had to do a little bit of trimming,
obviously, to fit these wheels and tires.
These are gonna be 35s on here.
But overall, I mean, it gives this truck
a really aggressive stance.
You'll get a shot later just to look down the truck
and then see if it's level or not.
One of the nice things about the torsion bar trucks
like this is you have adjustability,
so if you think the front's sitting too high
you can turn your torsion bars down
and it'll lower the front.
Or if you think the front's sitting too low
you can turn your torsion bars up.
But right now we have it where it's sitting pretty level.
One thing to note is: some people don't realize this,
but you can only turn the torsion bar so far up
before your upper control arm here
will actually rest on this droop stop.
As you can see, there's plenty of clearance under there
for the suspension to have downward travel
as well as upward travel, which is gonna contribute
to a nice riding truck.
And I think that pretty much wraps it up.
That's-- like I said, it's gonna be
the six-and-a-half inch Rough Country.
They are available for '11-- this particular kit's available
for 2011 and up GM three-quarter one-ton trucks.
I'm gonna go eat lunch.
(tranquil music)