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- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets,
got another episode of Lifts and Levels.
This is a kit that we've done before,
but I'm forced to do it again.
What the (bleeping)
It's a BDS six and a half inch kit.
This is gonna be for 2011 and up GM
three quarter ton and one ton trucks.
So, your 2500 HD's and your 3500 HD's.
This one's gonna be going on a 2012 GMC 2500 HD.
But it's all the same, 2011 and up, same kit,
same suspension, BDS six and a half.
As you'd expect you got your lower control and drop,
your drop crossmembers, they got the brace here
for the diff once it's strapped down.
This customer upgraded to the Fox 2.0 shocks,
which is obviously a really nice upgrade,
really helps with the ride quality.
Extended sway bar links, you got your skid plates,
your diff skid plate, and your splashguard here.
Differential drop braces, this is what's
gonna tie into the crossmember.
You got your differential drops, steering stabilizer.
I guess a side note on this is, steering stabilizers
will only work on trucks that have a factoring
steering stabilizer mount.
Some of these trucks don't even have a mount for 'em
so, then you don't use a steering stabilizer.
So, if you want one make sure you got a mount
otherwise you need to order appropriately.
We went with the four inch rear blocks
on this kit here, which are these
nice, new fabricated style rear blocks.
Four inch blocks will give it a really level stance
without having to bring the front up too high,
with those torsion bars.
And then, obviously one of the hearts,
they're the key pieces to the lift,
is going to be the lift knuckles.
This is what's, this is where all the magic happens,
I guess you would say, with the lift
on how the track width is, the turning radius, all that.
How the truck's lifted, all your angles
are kind of gonna be based off of the knuckles here.
And we know BDS is one of the best at that.
These here are gonna be the non-torsion bar
drop brackets, I can't talk.
This is a non-torsion drop kit.
So, basically rather than the torsion bars
being dropped down and remaining in the lower control arms
when they're dropped down, you're actually going to keep
the torsion bars in the factory location,
but raise the mounting point on the control arm side, up.
So, rather than being down here,
they're gonna be moved up here.
It's a really nice system, gives you more ground clearance,
doesn't have the bars hanging down, which I personally
don't like the look of, other people like
the look of the bars hanging down.
But this is kind of the way of the future.
It's actually also a little nicer,
you can get a little more leverage
and you actually have to use less spring rate
to lift the trucks so you can, in turn, get a better ride.
So, pretty much talked about everything here,
new u-bolts for the back, pretty much everything
else you'd expect from a kit.
BDS gives you new braided stainless lines,
which is nice for this kit, so you don't have to mess
with relocating the factory break lines.
Other than that, that's pretty much it.
We're gonna ahead and have Banker install in the truck.
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All right people, we are at it again here.
This is the BDS six and half inch kit,
we discussed on the bench.
This is it all installed on the vehicle here,
as you can see.
Right away the first thing we notice is
the new BDS lift knuckle, which is going to
provide lift as well as maintain proper
ball joint angle and steering geometry.
Also here, you'll see the longer sway bar n-links.
Side note, this kit does not increase front track width,
as you can see here, there's no CV axle spacers used,
therefore track width does not get increased
on these newer trucks, newer GM trucks at least.
And that's different depending on the lift kit.
Fox 2.0's upfront.
Front differential drop, as you can maybe see,
you can see it's quite a big drop here,
which is gonna be really nice for the CV axle angles,
keeping those all nice and kosher.
Lower control arm drop, cross members installed.
You can see a new skid plate tying everything together
and keeping the new diff protected here
as well as the splashguard or skidshield
up front there as well.
This kit we custom opted for the steering stabilizer,
so that's up here, installed, tucked away nicely there.
Might be a little hard to see.
And then, another thing about this kit,
this is a non-torsion drop kit, so as you can see,
torsion bars remain in the factory locations here.
And how it works is, this bracket that was
designed and engineered by BDS.
That's really everything up front.
You know, we've gone over this kit before.
But this just happens to be a different body style truck.
This is the 2012, like I mentioned before,
this is gonna be the same lift kit if it's 2011
and to current, GM three quarter and one ton trucks.
Suspension's remained the same since then.
In the back, this is gonna be the four inch block.
This is a nice fabricated block here.
You can see it has the extension wings on it,
for the bumpstop, and then new u-bolts as well,
and then Fox 2.0 performance shocks in the rear.
Once again, nothing much else going on back here.
They have you bend the brake line bracket here
up, so you have slack on your brake line,
so they're not being pulled apart or anything like that.
I guess, that reminds me, I did forget to mention,
up front, BDS gives you the new stainless braided lines
for the brakes, you can see here, new braided
stainless lines, really nice lines.
Obviously, they're extended over the factory ones,
so there's no messing with brackets, or bending lines,
or anything like that.
Simple replacement of the brake lines.
So, that is all good and dandy.
A lot of kits don't use that but
this particular one does and it's nice.
That's the BDS six and a half inch non-torsion drop kit.
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