- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets.
Got episode lifts and levels for you.
This one's gonna be a 3 1/2 inch Superlift.
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- Ah, this is a popular lift size for the '07 and up
GM half ton trucks because it's not a full blown lift kit
so the price is pretty reasonable.
And, what this is this is gonna be similar to a
Rough Country makes a 3 1/2 inch lift as well
and it's pretty much the same components.
And how it works is
you got the lift spacer up front
so this spacer is gonna go on top of your strut
that's gonna provide the lift for the truck
and then in order to basically
handle the new angle
of the control arms is they give you these new
tubular upper control arms from Superlift
and you see how it is basically it's designed to sit
at a higher angle
and the ball joint is clocked accordingly
rather than the factory ones.
And that's so what that allows you is
it allows you to not eat through ball joints
and still maintain a good ride
unlike the 3 1/2 inch kits that don't come with
upper control arms.
And this is gonna come with a differential drop as well
it's a small differential drop
only about this much,
but it's enough to keep the CV angles in a safe area
or a safe zone I should say, I guess.
Then, they have this new skid place for the diff
once it's lowered down, just a little protection
for the differential after the differential drop
and then in the back it rounds it off
with just some blocks here.
One thing that I don't really like about
the Superlift kit is they're the only ones I've seen
that don't give you a painted blocks
so the blocks in the rear are bare metal.
But, nothing a little spray paint won't take care of
and then, you got your new u-bolts, hardware.
And then, shocks as well for the back.
These are gonna be the Superlift shocks,
just their standard twin-tube shocks
for the rear of the truck.
We're gonna go ahead and we got this thing up on the lift
and Jake's getting really upset
because I'm holding his parts here hostage
so he's gotta go ahead and get this installed here
so we're gonna go ahead and get them on the truck
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Alright, so we got the 3 1/2 inch Superlift
installed on the truck now.
And, as you can see,
the key of this system is the upper control arm.
You can see even at full droop,
it's not at too much of angle here on the ball joint
which is what you're after.
And this is the factory control arm
and as you can see,
if it were to be at the same angle
this ball joint would be maxed out
and that's gonna ruin the ride
and you're gonna go through ball joints like crazy.
So that's why on these kits that don't have a knuckle,
you need to have a heavy duty upper control arm
with the new index ball joint on there to handle
that ball joint angle.
The rest of the kit, pretty simple.
The struts basically are up here
which is gonna provide the lift for you,
3 1/2 inches of lift.
And then, the differential drop
which you can't really see cause it's just a little
small differential drop, which is all you need.
Drops diff down to help the CV axle angles.
And, uh, that's pretty much everything
for the kit in the front.
In the back, simple blocks and shocks in the back.
As you can see,
it's just remove and replace the factory blocks
with the new larger blocks and the new u-bolts.
3 1/2 inch kit, these are pretty simple
nothing too crazy about 'em.
It's a good size kit that's pretty popular
and this is the one that I like
better than the Rough Country one because
of the ball joint angle on those new control arms
is a lot better on the Superlift than the Rough Country kit.
Alright, so that's gonna finish up the 3 1/2 inch
Superlift on this Chevy 1500 here.
We're gonna go ahead and get this thing back on he ground.
We gotta go get it aligned and get it to the customer.
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