Ok so I think I'm going to lift the Suburban and wanted to know if anyone had any experience with the GM IFS lifts? I'm looking at around 6" and want a good lift but dont want to pay out the wazoo for one. Any ideas would be nice.

Andy

 

well do you want a Knuckle or Bracket style lift???? ive done 3 IFS GM lifts, all 6 inch......what questions ya got????

 

Which is easier and which do you think is the best? You have to school me on these dang IFS front ends.

 

Knuckle Lift: keeps your upper control arms and steering in the factory position with factory parts and settings and uses a long HEAVY cast iron knuckle and a drop cradle to drop the lower control arms and the differential, it requires cutting the ear off the differential but that is the only thing that keeps it from being put back to stock but most companies now sell a piece that bolts on that puts it back to the stock location if you pull the lift off........

Bracket Lift: uses brackets to drop the upper control arms down the desired height of the lift, the bottom control arms and differential are dropped using a drop cradle just like the knuckle lift, but the steering is also dropped with a HUGE thick "X" brace that bolts at the top on the drop pitman arm and the idler arm and onto the centerlink at the bottom, this works great for pulling trucks cause it dosent let the center bar in the steering flex, the problem with it is that the next step in lift will be a solid axle cause you cut about 60% of your stock suspension points off the frame with a torch.........

the 6" Superlift Bracket Kit.....
National Tire & Wheel: Browsing Suspension Special! 88-98 GM IFS 1500 4-6"

on sale right now through NTW.....

its the cheapest your gonna get......i cant even get them that cheap.....

 

On the 1/2 ton I.F.S. you do not want to run bigger than a 35" tire on a 8" wide wheel.
The bigger you go, the more leverage on the front end components, the faster they will fail.

 

Mines a 3/4 ton so I dont have to worry about that I guess. I'm still up in the air, is there anyway to just get the nose up without cranking the bars all the way? I asked this on another site and never got a awnser.

 

Yeah you can get 1"-2" from cranking your bars. Too much and you will have bad ball-joint and c.v. angles. also you ride will suffer from too much cranking.

If you do crank dont forget to get a front end alignment, it will change your camber setting.

 

I would not just crank the t bars. There are several good lift kits out there for the Chevy IFS. I have had 2 RCD 6" kits and loved them. I did not like that the increased front track width. My current truck has the CST and it is factory track width but they are different type lifts. As Logan described above.

Reineke has a tuff country 6" lift on his truck and his truck sitting next to my 05 with the RCD was about an inch taller then mine.

Ranger has the Cognito 4" on his truck and he seems to like his.

Maybe those boys will chime in if they see this thread, good luck but don't go cheap. Do it right the first time so you don't have to do it again.

 

I really just wanted to clear my 285s a bit better but dont know if I will be able to. They rub a little now.

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Well My plans are for These wheels and tires, This lift, The Baja model front bumper. What do you all think? I would also like a nice rear bumper and maybe a storage rack for the roof.

These are my long term goals with this one.

 

really nice tire/wheel combo, lift is great, and baja bumper is too cool... nuff said haha