The body lift from hell

[2010H3TAlpha]

This is why I love our west coast cars...taking apart even 100k+ mile cars is smooth sailing thanks to zero rust.

 

[derian06]

Lost my phone during the body lift and after countless hours of searching in my garage and my house... I finally!!!...






gave up, so i'll be contacting our phone insurance and getting a new one asap. Once I get it I'll take some pictures.

 

[cbetts]

Bummer. I have used the android locater to find mine once. I don't have a land line and wife was out shopping. I was able to use the Google page to ring it remote, it can also turn on GPS and send back the location.

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[Bananatank]

If you have an iPhone use find my iphone it will allow it to beep light up and show location I've used this countless times.

 

[derian06]

it was an iphone, an iphone 6... and sadly I never set up find my iphone on it. or it just didn't show up when I went to find my iphone. Also it ran out of power by the time I could get another phone to try to call it. I guess I just left it somewhere, the last place I had it was up on my frame when I was using it's light to see, but I even went back under and checked all parts and couldn't find it anywhere.

 

[derian06]

Pics

 

[Bigunit]

Looks great!

 

[Panzer07]

I like man great job...I'm still undecided weather going with a 1 inch or a 2 inch...but seems like I'm leaning more towards the 1 inch body lift...just because H3on40's said that he had to mod something with his transmission (like a cable or so). Did you get any fender Rubin with the 37's when at full flex...and if so did the body lift has help with such rubbing ?


Torres

 

[4speedfunk]

I just cut all the front the front suspension off an H3T, getting prepped for a new solid axle. The truck has a 1" body lift on it, and I noticed during the steering rack removal that the intermediate shaft is really stretched to the limit. I also noticed that the fan shroud has been rotated half-way, and then marked "do not fully close". I assume this is because the fan will rub the bottom of the shroud if you don't leave it un-latched? Whatever the case...I'm still amazed that anyone would want a body lift. Seems like a bunch of headaches for very little gain. Unlike most trucks...the H3 is a very precise and "tight" rig. A one-inch body lift is enough of a difference to throw-off several components, and I question why anyone would mess with it.

Around here...I throw body-lifts in the same pile as wheel-spacers and indexed torsion keys. :no:

 

[derian06]

I just cut all the front the front suspension off an H3T, getting prepped for a new solid axle. The truck has a 1" body lift on it, and I noticed during the steering rack removal that the intermediate shaft is really stretched to the limit. I also noticed that the fan shroud has been rotated half-way, and then marked "do not fully close". I assume this is because the fan will rub the bottom of the shroud if you don't leave it un-latched? Whatever the case...I'm still amazed that anyone would want a body lift. Seems like a bunch of headaches for very little gain. Unlike most trucks...the H3 is a very precise and "tight" rig. A one-inch body lift is enough of a difference to throw-off several components, and I question why anyone would mess with it.

Around here...I throw body-lifts in the same pile as wheel-spacers and indexed torsion keys. :no:

I left the bottom of the fan shroud off, because I didn't want to trim the lower portion.

I like man great job...I'm still undecided weather going with a 1 inch or a 2 inch...but seems like I'm leaning more towards the 1 inch body lift...just because H3on40's said that he had to mod something with his transmission (like a cable or so). Did you get any fender Rubin with the 37's when at full flex...and if so did the body lift has help with such rubbing ?


Torres

W/O bodylift:
A bit of rubbing with 4.5" backspacing, but only one side when fully turned. With spacers I rubbed alot.
With bodylift:
Without spacers no rubbing at all, havent checked articulated.
With spacers a bit of rubbing

 

[cbetts]

I just cut all the front the front suspension off an H3T, getting prepped for a new solid axle. The truck has a 1" body lift on it, and I noticed during the steering rack removal that the intermediate shaft is really stretched to the limit. I also noticed that the fan shroud has been rotated half-way, and then marked "do not fully close". I assume this is because the fan will rub the bottom of the shroud if you don't leave it un-latched? Whatever the case...I'm still amazed that anyone would want a body lift. Seems like a bunch of headaches for very little gain. Unlike most trucks...the H3 is a very precise and "tight" rig. A one-inch body lift is enough of a difference to throw-off several components, and I question why anyone would mess with it.

Around here...I throw body-lifts in the same pile as wheel-spacers and indexed torsion keys. :no:

My body lift save me from totally losing my front inner fenders while running 35" KM2s. Fully locked and articulated, my tires ripped out a portion of both my inner fenders.

Yeah, it definitely has my steering linkage stretched a bit. I also rotated the shroud so the fan would not hit. There are some other gotchyas, like the "shoud" in front of the radiator needs to be trimmed or just removed. Also, my body bolts keep loosening up so they require a check every so often (Blue LocTite has proven to be ineffective).

 

[4speedfunk]

The bolt aren't loosening up...the biscuits are shrinking.

After the first time you rip the inner fenders...the problem is cured. Can't rip what's no longer there.

 

[cbetts]

The bolt aren't loosening up...the biscuits are shrinking.

After the first time you rip the inner fenders...the problem is cured. Can't rip what's no longer there.

Not quite . . .

The bolts are torqued down to the sleeve. This part should not loosen up otherwise all H3s would be experiencing this problem. As far as the inner fenders, I still have them. A portion has broken off the front, but they are still there and I plan on keeping them.