Off Roading Tuff Country 4.5" lift

[CLAYTON]

I have a 2" leveling kit right now and am looking for a little bit more. Anybody running this Tuff Country lift or have anything to say about it? #ad




Will it make the ride much stiffer or is it close to stock?





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[NCovey]

I am running the 5. 5" on the '96 2500. It is a good kit, it gets the lift you want, and keeps the ride. I ditched the lift blocks and used the rear springs that I had left over from my '97 f350. They also were 4inch heavy duty lift springs, I just seperated them from the top leaf, and mated them to the oem Dodge leaf. I also replaced the factory 5" block with a 3. 5" block from a 2000 superduty to get the rake I wanted. #ad

 

[CLAYTON]

Your truck looks great

 

[NCovey]

Thanks, that pic was before the show two weeks ago, we had just got done cleaning them up. -Nicholas

 

[bchesley]

I have one that I am thinking of selling. I am a real estate appraiser and I spend 4-5 hours a day getting in and out of my truck and I am getting tired of it. Plus my wife is complaining about it. You can look in my photos to see what it looks like on a truck. I love the kit and the looks that I get. If I put some steps on it might help, but I think that I just might take it off. The ride is the same if not smoother than stock. I think it might be smoother due to the shocks and heavier tires. If you are interested let me know.



Brad

 

[CLAYTON]

Hey Brad... PM what you would sell it for.

 

[justinp20012500]

Don't run ANYTHING from Tuff Country.



Their stuff is cheap.



Their "powder coating" flakes off after a year.



They replace factory "grade 8" bolts with grade 5.



There shocks turned yellow in 6 months.



O ya, almost forgot!! Their lift almost cost me my life!!





Heres the story.



The first problem I had was the control arms being the wrong length. When they are the wrong length the front drive shaft binds severely!!



The second problem is the drop track bar bracket hardware is grade five not grade eight like the factory hardware. I had the track bar bracket bolt shear off cause a temporary lose of control at freeway speeds.



The third thing is the pitman arm was casted wrong and caused the output shaft on the steering gear to break COMPLETELY OFF!!! The pitman arm did not go on all the way like it should have. (It was torqued and re-torqed to the factory torque spec. ) When it did break I was going down Baccus Highway (75MPH) on my way home from work and ran off the side of the road in one the big fields out there.



The 4th time and final time. The new pitman was on for about 3 months after the above incident and it sheared in half. YES the pitman BROKE IN HALF!!! My wife was driving through fashion place mall parking lot with my son and it broke when she was turning. She ruined my warn push-guard, but totally destroyed the car she hit!!



After all the above I gave Troy Davis a call (Tuff Country Owner) and said I wanted the lift taken off and the truck put back to stock. He said he would fix what was wrong with the lift and replace some parts. I said the only thing that is wrong is that it is on my truck and he is still selling them. He never did offer to pay for the damage of anything.



I hate to say it, but my truck is a trailer queen. Never seen anything but a gravel road. I never pounded on it, so I thought a tuff country lift would be ok. Man was I wrong.



After talking to him (complete butt whole about it) he agreed to have it taken off.



And that’s why I will never run anything tuff country again.

 

[bchesley]

Sorry to hear about your bad experience, but I think that it is isolated. I did some pretty extensive research before I bought this kit and there are tons of people on this board that are having great luck with their product. Even cummins has had a bad one here and there, I dont see anyone running from them because of it. Like I said before, you must have just had a bad one!!!



Brad

 

[KYLE4]

Don't do it a truck I sponsor has the kit on his truck he says the ride is horrible. They just don't keep suspension geometry anywhere near stock harsh angles on drag bars and that Huge spacer :--) you could do much better.

 

[Hookemupman]

This is my second tuff country kit one was on my 98 3500 with 35 that i recently sold. The truck i just bought a 99 2500 i just put this kit on and 37 in tires. I had very good experiance with these kits on both trucks.

 

[Cummins4Life]

A friend of mine has thier 5" kit on his 94 1500 when he bought it new. Now has 265,000 miles on it and has been through hell and back. He's skidded logs, supplied his fire crew with his truck, just beat on it hard. He even fell asleep at the wheel last year, went through a 4' ditch and hit a cedar tree about 30" in diameter. The truck is about to fall apart but he's never had a problem with the kit at all other than replacing the bushings in the control arms now and then. Tuff Country stuff does look "cheap" but his has held up.