Custom 3" Lift Help, Lift Kit Parts Sold Individually?

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livelifewideopen

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Hey everyone. Im building a budget 3" lift on a 1988 k1500 short box. Right now Im running partially-cranked keys on 33s with some bumper and fender trimming. I love the way she sits level but she rides like a damn brick. Im planning on piecing together my own 3" lift that doesnt just crank my keys and ruin my new $400 dollar MOOG front suspension. Im planning on running the upper ball joint flip, shock spacers and I already found a front differential drop kit for a 2-4" lift. also gonna run the real lift TB spacer things. What I can't find sold individually is a drop bracket for the lower control arms. I know that some of them in the kits have a built in differential drop so if thats the case I won't need to run the drop brackets I found already. Any Input? Do I need to do any drop Pitman or idler arms or anything? Also I don't feel comfortable fabricating my own control arm drop on my daily driver. Thanks!
 

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Sounds sketchy. Why not a body lift if you're on a budget.
 

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Its less sketchy than just cranking the keys all the way up, and its a stick shift so I don't want to need to reach to the floor to grab my shift lever, and I prefer suspension lift to get the frame further off the ground. Most of the trails I go down are meant for jeeps, so grabbing the frame is my biggest concern.
 

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the tie rod ends are at bad angles with a crank so i was wondering about a steering drop myself. never seen any lca brackets sold individually
 

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Lower control arm drop + steering drop + diff drop = 4-6" suspension lift... These parts are not offered separately for a reason..
 

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So there is no way to get about 3" without just crankin the keys and redoin the front end every 3 months? Tryin to ball on a budget haha.
 

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believe us, 3" body, save for a full 6" lift or SAS the truck. Those are your best (really, your only) options
 

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Its less sketchy than just cranking the keys all the way up, and its a stick shift so I don't want to need to reach to the floor to grab my shift lever, and I prefer suspension lift to get the frame further off the ground. Most of the trails I go down are meant for jeeps, so grabbing the frame is my biggest concern.
No its really not cranking keys is common practice, making a pieced together lift kit isnt. You'll end up spending more doing it that way when you could have done it right the first time.
 
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