PinnedStart here: the boards and how this place works

fresh board, first post, read it before you post anywhere else. this is a spot for lifted pickups and i mean that wide. a 2 inch level riding 33s belongs, a 6 inch kit on 37s belongs, a hacked and rewelded radius drop belongs. if your rig stands taller than it left the factory and you want to know what that did to the steering, the gearing or the money you now spend on rubber, you landed right. still at factory ride height? there is room for you too, you just will not be the headliner.

i held it to three boards and no more. Lift & suspension talk covers stance and ride quality, leveling kits through long arms, trackbars, control arms, death wobble, pinion angle, bump steer, how tall is legal. Wheels, tires & gearing is everything that touches pavement, 35s and 37s, offset and backspacing, load range, swapping gears once the tall tires sap your factory ratio, speedo recal, grip in the snow. Buying and auctions is where the dollars go, your invoice, the lot it came off, and the stack of rigs arriving pre lifted off a bank repossession.

my background. nineteen years turning wrenches on a front end and alignment rack at a Billings truck shop, the last half of it cleaning up lifted rigs that other shops sent down the road driving crooked. i have dialed caster on more sloppy lifts than i can total, and told plenty of folks a truth they did not want about a build they already wrote the check for. my own truck is a 2015 Ram 2500 sitting on a 4.5 Carli package and 37s, geared down to 4.10, so this is not a lecture from a stock parking spot.

the rules are short. first line of every post gets the truck, the lift height and the tire size, all three, because every one of them changes the answer. got a wobble or a buzz, tell us the day it began and what you touched right before. buying writeups carry the dollar figures. selling is off limits inside a thread, i deliberately built this with no classifieds page and it will stay that way. anybody cashing a check from a shop, a bank, an auction house or a lift brand owns up to it in the relevant post. the full version sits on the about page. and keep it decent, the Carli crowd and the Rough Country crowd share these same pages and neither is budging.

accounts come through email while i fight off the bots. send me the truck, the lift, the tires and the town it lives in and i will get you set up. dale.

done, both went on the about page, kit type in the opening line and death wobble questions staying on this board. nobody is getting their thread renamed over it, i will just reply and ask, like anyone would.

sign ups are running way past what i guessed, somewhere north of forty in the first few days against the dozen i figured on, so a link is floating around out there somewhere. a couple of them wrench for a living and one buys repos for a side business, which already makes the advice on here sharper than a four day old site earns.

fair warning, the buying board is what keeps this place busy all winter. lender yards are full of lifted diesels right now and folks are bidding on them blind, so before you drop forty grand on a rig you cannot walk up to, read what the people in there turned up once it landed in their driveway. a lot cheaper than learning it yourself.