Long arm / Pre-runner 4WD bolt-ons

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I know they exist....

these trucks may be getting old but there are still millions on the road, I just cant seem to find many performance parts for a "classic" truck...

does anyone have installed, or know of a good bolt on kit to stout up the front end of a 4WD? not just a lift kit, but a full arm and articulation upgrade.



"cash for clunkers" really hurt the aftermarket parts industry, which, was mostly based in the continental US.. so... way-to-go "uncle tom"...
 

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Long arm kits exist for the 2wds....not the 4wds....a lot of which is due to the natural limitations of the suspension design and angle limits of the CV axles...unless you want to go for some 2K+ front cv axles...which still have the same limits...
 

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yeah I see 2WDs all the time... stuck... lol
I found one "lift kit" that came close, but in the end it was only a lift kit, not a suspension upgrade...
most of the articles I read about GMT400s as a pre-runner involve fabrication but there has got to be a company to capitalize on it SOMEWHERE.....
 

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yeah I see 2WDs all the time... stuck... lol
I found one "lift kit" that came close, but in the end it was only a lift kit, not a suspension upgrade...
most of the articles I read about GMT400s as a pre-runner involve fabrication but there has got to be a company to capitalize on it SOMEWHERE.....

As far as I know, the ONLY GMT400 prerunners are fully custom. There is no kit you can buy and making a 4WD GMT400 prerunner would be incredibly expensive if at all possible.
 

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=( ok....

I know a serious one would need to be totally custom; I was just hoping there would be some kind of tuned town "sleeper pre-runner" suspension you could buy...

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Sadly the only ways you are gonna get even close would be via a 6" lift or SAS conversion and iirc SAS has more travel then the 6"...its something like 12-16" of travel...something like that anyway..
 

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Fabtech back in the day made a 2WD "long travel" kit but by today's standards it's considered a mid-travel kit and still uses the stock upper and lower a arm perches.

I beliveve that CST also made onn but both have been long discontinued.

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Nope, no bolt of 4x4 long travel suspensions for GMT400's.

If you're got very deep pockets, you can have something built that comes close to the Ford Raptor suspension travel. Close, but not quite as much.

The issue is the CV axles. Not long enough to allow suspension travel and stay engaged. The short length results in extreme CV joint angles.

In order to fix that, you would need to center mount a differential, lift or relocate the engine for driveshafts, rotate the transfer case for center drop or source a custom case, create custom length CV axles with something like the porche 930 Cv joints (sand rails use 'em), then design and build a complete new front crossmember cradle and then create a completely custom suspension system (upper and lower A arms, Knuckle/spindles, shocks, springs, etc) right out to the wheels.

You're easily talking $10,000+ if you find one to do the work cheap for you. And then it's going to have horrible suspension action on a street vehicle.

The only other option to get more wheel travel is to make the front end horrendously wide for the CV travel. This still involves A arms, Knuckles/spindles, axles, etc but you avoid the need to move engines, transfer cases, crossmembers, etc. Getting any appreciable travel this way is going to make it nearly impossible to get it street legal, let alone get it to drive decently.

This is why a solid axle conversion at around 5 grand (and that's fairly high end) is so attractive.

IFS can do some amazing things, but it needs to be purpose built from the ground up for long travel.

A 2wd is easier to set up as a pre runner style, as there are a few custom builders out there making suspensions for them. They are still prohibitively expensive though.

here's a custom one:

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That's the kind of thing you're going to find for pre-runner stuff. Not cheap, not bolt on and definitely not street legal. Those boys don't fool around....

The GMT400 IFS is/was built for ride quality in order to sell as many units as possible to people who think they want trucks when what they really want is cars....
 
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Fabtech back in the day made a 2WD "long travel" kit but by today's standards it's considered a mid-travel kit and still uses the stock upper and lower a arm perches.

I beliveve that CST also made onn but both have been long discontinued.

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ARRRR!!!! I know!!!
it totally sucks they discontinued so much for these trucks!
it was all that stupid "cash for clunkers" bull trying to get old cars off the road to give GM a shot in the arm in sales... no more than $4,000 to go over $20,000 in debt with a new car, all while killing small business that made these parts....
 

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Every time I hear "cash for clunkers" I think of all the tags in the junk yard that said "this engine filled with liquid glass"............
 
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