Pics of my 2in lift on a 1999 Government Fleet Vehicle
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 2:33 pm
Finally got the tires, lift and shocks in. Tires are 235/75/15 Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac's, rims are stock steelies I painted and modified some chrome center caps to fit, lift is a standard Overland Vans 2 inch lift, with bumper brackets, and shocks are Rancho RS500's
I didn't do a tutorial since there plenty of them out there already.
The lift took an entire day to finish, working slow and taking lunch/beer breaks and by entire day I mean that I started at about 9am and finished at around 9pm. The lift is a bit of work finish, the main problem areas were the bumper fit, which is a bit too tight of a fit being slightly too high and tilted upward a hair, the other problem was removing the front shocks because the limited space to access the top nuts, even when raised. Something not to forget, which I almost did, is to adjust the parking brake after install of the new bracket, it's easy enough with the vehicle already raised. I had minor scrub in about the same areas as everyone else, did a little trimming a little banging and all is good. Another issue was the lower fan shroud, I measured clearance and it 1.5 inches so I trimmed it and installed it, did a test start and everything was fine. I had a nasty rubbing noise if I foored it from a dead stop, I kept thinking it was the wheelwells, but I had aready trimmed and couldn't figure out where the rub could be. As it turned out I didn't take into consideration torque nose lift of the van on hard acceleration which raises the already trimmed lower fan shroud to make contact with the fan blades! luckily no damage was done to the fan blades and the contact only took a small chip out of the shroud. I trimmed an extra 1/2 in and was back to a noise free van. The next day I greased up the shackles, loaded the family and dog, and took it on HWY 17, a 20 mile trip through winding mountain roads to the beach. I didn't take too many pics of the install as I spent most my time installing it. here's a few pics
I didn't do a tutorial since there plenty of them out there already.
The lift took an entire day to finish, working slow and taking lunch/beer breaks and by entire day I mean that I started at about 9am and finished at around 9pm. The lift is a bit of work finish, the main problem areas were the bumper fit, which is a bit too tight of a fit being slightly too high and tilted upward a hair, the other problem was removing the front shocks because the limited space to access the top nuts, even when raised. Something not to forget, which I almost did, is to adjust the parking brake after install of the new bracket, it's easy enough with the vehicle already raised. I had minor scrub in about the same areas as everyone else, did a little trimming a little banging and all is good. Another issue was the lower fan shroud, I measured clearance and it 1.5 inches so I trimmed it and installed it, did a test start and everything was fine. I had a nasty rubbing noise if I foored it from a dead stop, I kept thinking it was the wheelwells, but I had aready trimmed and couldn't figure out where the rub could be. As it turned out I didn't take into consideration torque nose lift of the van on hard acceleration which raises the already trimmed lower fan shroud to make contact with the fan blades! luckily no damage was done to the fan blades and the contact only took a small chip out of the shroud. I trimmed an extra 1/2 in and was back to a noise free van. The next day I greased up the shackles, loaded the family and dog, and took it on HWY 17, a 20 mile trip through winding mountain roads to the beach. I didn't take too many pics of the install as I spent most my time installing it. here's a few pics
