I was able to get up with Mike on Friday at Richmond and we were able to successfully crank up the t-bars and installed the AAL's. We weren't able to get the shackles installed on that day due to some small technical difficulties. I will hopefully have them installed here really soon. I want to get them on the truck before going to Elizabeth City in 2 weeks. I went up to West Virginia for my wife's birthday on Sunday. We went to Harper's Ferry on Sunday. We walked around and there is a little RR service road that goes along the river. A lot of trucks go down there since it's nice.

I was going along on the trail and the park ranger was coming from the opposite direction. I had to climb up the side of the hill on the left in order to get by each other. I was able to get the driver's side rear wheel to completly lift off of the ground but wasn't able to get out of the truck to get a pic. I need to get the shackles on to help and to get new shocks to take advantage of them.

I will post some pics after I get the shackles installed. I have taken some pics of the X during the install of the AAL's and even got a couple of pics of mine and Mikes' after we got the AAL's and cranking the T-bars. Everyone so far has said that it doesn't look like it is lifted at all until they try to get in then they notice it.

Mike thanks for the help on Friday it was great. Love the new height. I can't wait to get the shackles on and then see how it looks!!!

Here's a couple of pics of before and after. This is without the shackles on. I'll take some pics of the truck after the shackles are on.

Before:


After T-Bar cranked


Truck comparison


Another Truck comparsion shot


Here's a pic of Mike and the X's.


Here's a pic of me and the X's.

You lifted the Just Blue X? I can't tell the Silver Ice one looks lifted but not the Just Blue X

yank off the step rails.. it will look much higher

I can tell the difference in the added space between the tire and the fender....looks good. gotta love that just blue! What's next? New tires?

I still have to get the shackles installed on the back end. It will give me a total of 2.5" of lift. The front is weighing in at about 2" of lift already. I tried putting on the shackles but ran into a couple of problems over the course of today. I will just have to wait to get the shackles done at a later time. The only thing that I put on the back was an AAL.

I'll be getting some new tires on it hopefully soon. I am debating if I go with 31's or 32's because there are a couple that said that the 32's are the biggest that I can go with the 4 hampsters running under the hood.

Almost forgot that Mike's truck has about a 3" lift running on it plus 16 inch wheels running 33" tires. The size of the tires and wheel combo alone makes my truck look very small either way.