About this forum

Lifted Truck Owners Forum opened in November 2025 for people who put a lift under a truck and then had to figure out what it did to the steering, the gears and the tire bill nobody warned them about.

Lifted trucks here means half tons and HD pickups that sit higher than the factory built them, from a 2 inch level on 33s up to a 6 inch kit on 37s. F-250 and F-150, Ram 1500 and 2500, Silverado and Sierra, the odd Tundra. A leveled daily and a cut-and-welded weekend truck get the same answers, because the physics does not care what you call it.

It is run by Dale R., who posts as mod_dale_r. Dale spent 19 years doing front-end alignment and suspension work at a truck shop in Billings, Montana, the last stretch of it specializing in lifted trucks that came in from other shops driving wrong. He runs a 2015 Ram 2500 on a 4.5 inch Carli setup and 37s that he regeared to 4.10, and he will tell you a well-built 4 inch truck rides better than most people's leveling kits. He reads the contact mailbox himself and is slow about it in hunting season, when half of Montana is in the hills.

What it costs

The server is twelve dollars a month and the domain was fourteen for the year. Dale pays both. There is no advertising on any page, no affiliate code buried in a parts link, and nobody has paid for a thread or a spot in one. If that ever changes it will say so here first.

House rules

• Truck, lift and tire size in every question. A 2 inch level on 33s and a 6 inch kit on 37s are different trucks with different problems, and the answer changes with both.
• If you have a wobble or a vibration, say when it started and what changed right before it. "It just started" with no history wastes everybody's morning.
• Say what you paid, on the truck and on the build. Buying reports without numbers get a note from a mod asking for them, and most people fill them in.
• No selling trucks or parts in threads. There is no classifieds board, on purpose. Linking a public listing to make a point about price is fine.
• If you work for a shop, a lender, an auction or a lift company, say so in the posts where it comes up. People posting as owners when they are not get removed.
• Be civil about brands. The Carli people and the Rough Country people are stuck on the same four pages and neither one is converting the other.
• Mods move posts to the right board and leave a note where the post used to be. Threads get locked rarely and with a reason written in them.
• Accounts are by email request until the spam settles down.

What this is not

Not a shop, not a lift vendor, not an alignment rack and not a lawyer on vehicle height law. When somebody here hands you a torque spec, a caster number or a legal height, check it against your own state and your own truck before you trust a highway to it.