- Hey, guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets,
got another episode of Lifts and Levels for you.
This one is going to be a Superlift eight inch system
with the King coilovers and King shocks.
- [Crew] Yeah!
All right, wrap it up!
- We're done here, boys.
So this is going to be a Superlift eight inch system,
they do have their normal eight inch system
which is a spacer lift system.
It'll reuse the factory struts
and then a spacer on top of them
but this is going to be the King system here.
So you got these nice two and a half inch King coilovers,
we'll get to those in a second,
we're gonna run through the rest of the parts.
All right, so we'll start with the cross members here,
these are gonna be the same cross members
that they use in all of their eight inch lift systems.
One nice thing about these is obviously that we'll see here
is that they do drop the lower control arms
about seven and a half inches
so this isn't a four inch system
that they just max out and run at eight inches
and blow everything apart on the front end,
this is a true I guess you would call it
eight inch system so that's a nice
something to note about there.
So we got our rear cross member
and then the front cross member here.
One thing that I will mention again
that I have done before about Superlift is
they just supply you with the name plate
for the cross member, they don't afix it for you,
they just leave that up to you,
I think that's kind of weird
and I don't know why they do that.
And let's see, beside that, differential skid plate here.
This is gonna go under the front differential
once it's dropped down to protect it a little bit
from any fast-moving objects that may try to
decimate its existence.
Dude, you just ruined my whole vibe.
And moving on here we got the new knuckles here.
As you can see these are a new forged unit
designed by Superlift.
This is going to have a lot of the steering geometry in it
and this is actually going to provide some lift as well.
Depending on where they have the wheel mounting location
machined into the knuckle itself
this will increase the front track
with about an inch and 5/8ths or so in the front.
So the front will get wider than the rear track width
and so I you'll see that they supply these CV axle spacers
which measure about an inch and 5/8ths
to prevent the CV axles from over expanding.
Sway bar drop brackets here
and we'll move on to the next important thing or piece
which would be these differential drop brackets.
There's going to be two of 'em obviously
and these are quite large
'cause this is an eight inch system
and these drop the diff about,
seven inches is what they measure
and I can't really measure this one here
because we got a little bit of a diddly-doo difference here
so we can't get a measurement on there
but it's about seven inches on the other one
so I'm going to assume that
it's going to drop the other side
about seven inches as well,
In the rear of the truck we got our block lift,
these are the Superlift, gotta move these,
Superlift blocks here and we'll just measure these up.
And these are gonna be them eight inch, yep, eight inches.
An eight inch block for the rear
and we got new U-bolts as well for that here.
And these are a fabricated unit as you can see,
they're not gonna be a cast block or anything like that.
And then moving on to the fun stuff,
this is going to be the King portion obviously of the kit.
We got the 2.5 inch King shocks for the rear,
they're a reservoir shock, a piggyback if you will
is what they're called, piggyback reservoir shock.
These are gonna go for the rear
and then we got the coilovers up front.
These are an external reservoir shock
or a remote reservoir I guess you would say
as opposed to a piggyback.
They give you these little mounts here
which I guess are gonna go on top of the strut towers.
And the reservoirs will mount in there
and make everything nice and pretty looking.
And we got bags of hardware over here
that we're not really gonna talk about
'cause there's nothing interesting in there,
just bolts and nuts.
We're gonna go ahead and get this installed
and then we'll come back to her and check it out.
All right, guys, we got the eight inch Superlift kit
installed on the truck here the King edition of course.
We're gonna run through the kit
and just point out some of the components
and how they are once they're installed.
All right, so first things first,
we got the new forged knuckles here
which are of Superlift design.
Extended sway bar end links here
as well as the sway bar drop.
So we got the sway bar drop brackets here
combined with the longer end links as well.
New lower control arm drop, cross members,
the front and the rears.
Of course we got the new King coilover installed.
This particular customer
we installed zone upper control arms here,
these are not necessary,
you can reuse your factory control arms
but the factory ones are wore out
so he went with the upgraded zone upper control arms.
So that's what you see here, that's what these are.
One thing that, one gripe I have about this kit
is they make you rethread the inner tie rod here
which in my opinion is a little hokey.
They have you cut it and then rethread it
which is not an easy task
considering that I think an inner tie rod is hardened
so they just give you a tap and say,
here, just thread some new threads on here
and you're good to go.
It's much easier said than done,
I don't know why they wouldn't just give you
a new shorter tie rod.
I'm assuming their reason's gonna be
because then you could just go buy a stock outer tie rod
and then throw it on there
but what if your inner goes bad?
Anyway, that was the one gripe about this kit.
Moving on we got CV axle spacers here
because the track width is increased.
Differential drop brackets,
these big brackets here as you can see.
We got the skid plate installed
for the differential when it comes down
and I think that's about it up front,
there's no, nothing with the driveshaft
or anything like that so we're good on that aspect of it.
You have to relocate some of the brake lines
and everything like that which is to be expected,
nothing out of the ordinary there.
Moving around to the back we have the new blocks
installed on the truck, the new U-bolts
and then of course the new King shocks for the rear
and then there's some brake line relocation going on
in the back as well, give you some slack on the brake lines
and really that's gonna be about it,
that's the Superlift eight-inch kit,
this is going to be the King edition.
Peace.
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