(hip hop music)
- If we're talking about lift kits,
the conversation is usually pretty much always the same.
After all, there's not much you can really do
with lift kits other than well, lift your truck.
Well, the components of today's lift kits
are quite a ways ahead of their ancestor.
The general premise still remains the same.
In almost every case for lifting your truck,
you're gaining a fixed amount of lift,
usually via updated suspension components.
But what if I told you that out there somewhere
in a galaxy far, far away,
there exists a lift kit that gives you the flexibility
to be both lower than stock ride height
and high enough to clear forties all at the same time.
I'm Dustin from Custom Offsets.
And today we're going to be lifting it up,
dropping it down
and finding out just what's the hype (whooshing)
with Any Level Lifts.
(rock music)
All right, I gotta take this (beep) flannel off.
Dude, it's too hot, too hot. (upbeat music)
♪ Oh yeah ♪
All right.
Jumping right into it then.
If you need wheels, tires, or suspension for your truck,
you can find those on our website
which is customoffsets.com.
Also, if you want to help us support a really great cause,
and also take a chance at winning a lift kit,
a set of compression forged wheels
and a set of tires for your truck
shipped right to your door,
you can do so at customoffsets.com/giveaway.
So I got to get this out of the way before we get started.
No, we were not paid by Any Level Lift to make this video
and we don't even carry them on our website,
but we do get asked about 'em quite often.
So we thought we put a video together
and just have a quick little chat with you guys on it.
Let's take it back a little bit
and find out just exactly where Any Level Lift started.
Any Level Lift LLC was officially founded
in the spring of 2016 by a man named Aaron Aldrich,
a mechanical engineer by trade from upstate New York.
Like many of us who grew up in small towns
all around the world, Aaron naturally found himself
quite fond of lifted trucks.
Let's be real here.
Anyone who's from a small town
will tell you that lifted trucks are where it's at.
After building and testing a prototype kit
on his very own Superduty then getting not one, not two
but three patents related to the design,
Aaron decided to focus solely on bringing the Any Level Lift
to market with the help of his cousin
and good friend Jared Scanlon
And he was able to make this dream a reality.
Along with some help from some close friends
and family members, Aaron and Jared
built a second prototype kit,
which went on Jared's brand new 2016 F-350
and then another kit was built.
And that one went on the 2017 F-350
that was debuted at the 2016 SEMA show.
For the first time in industry history,
a lift kit was available that offered a whopping 16 inches
of ride height adjustment without any impact
to how the truck drives for rides.
So what makes Any Level Lifts so unique?
You might ask.
Well for starters, the suspension travel we just mentioned,
it's pretty awesome.
These lift kits utilize a fully custom suspension geometry
that allows you to drop your truck
an inch below factory ride height,
or raise it up about 13 inches
above the factory ride height,
meaning that you have options
and everybody loves having options.
It's like when you go to the steak and shake
and they ask you if you want a regular or large shake
with your burger and fries, PS, it's a large every time.
If that ride height shakeup wasn't enough
to trip your fancy, then you'll also be pleased to learn
that in addition to all the neat tech found
in Any Level Lift, they also use King coilover shocks.
If you're not familiar, King is one of the biggest
and best names in the truck coilover industry.
So it only makes since that Any Kevel chooses them
for their lift kits.
The cherry on the top of all of this
is that in addition to being able to control
your lift kit height from a set of switches
on the inside of the truck,
you can also pair your Any Level Lift to your phone
via Bluetooth connection.
Yes, you heard that right.
You can lift, lower, rake or lean your truck
from your fucking cell phone!
In terms of options, Any Level Lift
offers two types of kits.
And unfortunately,
both of these are for the Ford super duty trucks.
Any Level does not offer lift kits for others brands
at this time, though it is rumored that Ram kits
are in development as of late 2020.
In terms of these lifts,
Any Level offers both hydraulic and manual adjustments.
You may ask, what's the difference?
As you can probably guess,
the manual kits are adjusted manually
which means that after supporting and the weight
of your truck off the ground,
usually with a lift or something like that,
you can actually move the coilover mounting location
to various ride height mounts on the truck.
On the flip side, a hydraulic adjustable kit
is basically the same thing
except instead of having to lift the truck
and undo bolts and stuff,
it just does it automatically with a hydraulic ram.
The advantage to a manual kit
is that you can save yourself a few pennies
or a lot of pennies. (laughs)
And you can install that kit yourself
whereas the hydraulic kit has to be done
by a certified installer.
In terms of price, these hydraulic kits
are heavy hitters swinging in at just shy of $20,000
depending on how you option your kit.
Additionally, these hydraulic kits are awesome,
but you do lose pretty much your entire bed space
to make room for things like the hydraulic pump
and reservoir and extra batteries necessary
to run lift kits.
So with all that being said,
what is the hype with Any Level Lifts?
For us, it's all about the idea behind it.
Any Level Lifts were designed by a guy just like you or I.
Aaron even went so far in an interview one time
to say that he "Built the lift kit for the guy
"that wanted to tow during the week
"and then take his truck mudding during the weekend."
The Any Level Lift is built for everyday life
and they're built well.
Look at all the hell that whistling diesel
put his truck through.
If it can handle that,
it can handle pretty much anything else!
What do you guys think of Any Level Lifts?
Would you run one?
Should we put one on the K-350?
Let us know down in the comment section below.
And as always,
if you haven't already subscribed to the channel,
please do so now and smash that like button
so we can keep making banging videos just like this one.
We'll see you on the next one.
(upbeat music)