- Hey guys Brad here with Custom Offsets.
This is gonna be an episode of hot and new suspension
and this one's gonna be the six inch, Fabtech
system here.
I think they call this the basic system,
the six inch system for 2014 to 17 GM 1500 trucks,
half ton trucks like Silverados and Sierras
and let's just walk through the kit here a little bit.
As you can see, Fabtech is one of the higher end brands
and nicer brands,
so they include these forged steel knuckles for you,
for the lift knuckles, so that you don't have
too much of a ball joint angle on your ball joints,
so it raises your top ball joint mounting location
for your upper control arm.
So that's gonna help with your ball joint angles,
longevity of your suspension components
and all that good stuff
and it's gonna help in the ride quality.
This kit you might notice is red,
which isn't standard on Fabtech kits;
they come black.
The customer just chose to have this one powder coated.
He did this himself,
it's gonna go on his black truck here
so he wanted a red kit
so he got it powder coated
and then this is also the one,
comes with, these are the upgraded Stealth shocks,
that Fabtech makes.
This is an upgrade from their, the White performance series
so I think this upgrade for the Stealth shocks
is about $70
and so the customer decided to do that.
This kit also comes with,
as you can see,
you got your standard,
these are tapered lift blocks, in the rear
and they taper the blocks,
so that your rear pinion angle isn't too extreme
and you're binding on your u-joints in the back
and then of course they give you the nice
yellow zinc coated u-bolts,
which won't corrode over time,
which is nice.
So they'll always look pretty fresh.
And they got your sway bar drop brackets here.
These are gonna be your differential drops,
this one here
and this one is gonna be the other diff drop
and as well as,
they have this brace here,
for your differential
because when you drop it down,
you have to cut a part of
the right side mounting pad off on the differential,
so they give you this bracket,
which is gonna brace the differential
and you can see,
this is gonna be your lower control arm
rear cross member
and it's actually gonna go,
well it'll sit like this basically.
The cross member comes down
and your differential will be braced in here
and they give you these nice polyurethane bushings
to go in the brace,
so your differential is nice and solid.
Mounted as it should be.
And another nice thing about this kit,
is they give you these shortened tie rods.
When you do these lifts,
you have to, basically the factory tie rods,
here's a factory tie rod.
You can see how long it is
and it doesn't allow for enough adjustment or tow in
so on some of the cheaper, lower end kits,
like Rough Country,
they actually tell you to cut the tie rod,
the outer tie rod, about an eighth inch
and cut the inner tie rod an eighth inch
and I'm not the biggest fan on that,
so Fabtech's nice enough
to give you these shortened tie rods,
so you don't have to cut anything.
Which is nice.
And then, I guess to finish it off,
you got your standard strut spacers here,
for this six inch basic kit,
is what they call it.
Fabtech also does make a coil-over kit
with their own Dirt Logic coil-overs is what they're called
and I think that's their six inch performance series
with the coil-overs, it's a super nice kit
but it's also about $2,500 or so.
It's a lot more expensive than this kit
and yup also this is a front skid plate,
it comes standard on all the Fabtech six inch lifts.
They got, this would be your bump stop drops.
I think these are for the rear,
to drop the rear bump stops down which is nice
and then your CV axle spacers
so you don't over-extend your CV axles,
they give you these.
Bag of hardware.
They give you Lock-tite which is nice,
you Lock-tite the crucial fasteners.
Like you're supposed to.
And I think that's about it.
So we're gonna go ahead and install this one
and get it out the door.
See ya.
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