Awesome video- thanks for sharing and taking the time! The stance is exactly what I'm shooting for! Once it's done I'm putting on a bumper sticker that says, "Because my kids won't remember the time I got 100mpg" Lol this is an awesome project and I super appreciate you taking the time to throw this video on youtube. Have a great day!
I've since sold the van. I really liked it but my job kept me at work for 340 days in 2020. A guy made me an offer I couldn't refuse. With the lift it rode better and was more stable with the wider stance. If you use aluminum spacers, definitely check them a few times and re torque the first few hundred miles. Changing to the 4.30 gear was awesome. Put power to the ground without killing the interstate driving. With the trans tune (5Star), 4.30 gears and 33" tires, I averaged 14.8mpg. 4.10 would have put me back to stock ratio with the tires. 4.30 gave me a little more grunt without sacrificing interstate speeds. 4.56 would have been too radical unless I went with a 35"+ tire.
@@winmag4582001 Awesome! Thanks for the input on gear ratios, I was considering 4.10's but that's great to hear 4.30's served you well with a 33" tire, I'd much rather go with a 4.30 because I plan to tow a camper trailer with it sometime in the future. 14.8mpg is awesome! I would have thought it'd take to 10mpg or so. The 5 star tune is something I've been looking into as well but I've got a few other things to get to before pulling the trigger. I picked up a '14 e-350 with 75k miles for around $7k sight unseen... it's done well so far but they could have told me that it was used to transport troubled youth at their rehab facility! Haha everything that could be punched through or picked at on the inside was beat up or missing but overall it's coming along and with a few trips to the local pick a part I should have the missing odds and ends. I'm curious about your roof rack, it looks like it's the ladder rack kind that pinches on and sits in the rain gutter, how did you like that? I've been wanting to get a set of 4 but I hesitate because we have an ikamper rtt that kind of has to unfold and I'd have to cut off the ears above the poles that go across if that makes sense for it to un fold... would that cause any problems if I cut those off? It seems like they're just there to run some tie downs across to strap down a latter or whatnot but I can't be sure. The tent just wouldn't clear them as it unfolds down the passenger side flat on the bars. I imagine it would do just fine without those ends but not quite sure. Also thanks for measuring to that first step! My wife's almost 9 months pregnant and she measured our couch arm rest at about 24" and after getting up and down a few times says she wouldn't mind the height and the 6" lift would be well worth it. I wonder if you went off-roading in it a lot? We wouldn't be doing any rock crawling but we'd need to sell our jeep to fund the lift and a locker in the rear to hit some dirt roads and soft trails here in Utah. Eventually we'd like to take it down to baja and get out in the rural parts and explore. What's your take on if you had to go back and do a 4x4 swap or the 6" lift?
@@jordanherrmann9584 4x4 is nice and it adds a lot of value to the van but it also costs a lot more than anybody admits. Even if you sourced all the parts yourself and did all your own fab work, I'd estimate you'd still be in it for $10k, there's a couple of shops here in Colorado that will do a conversion for around $17+k out the door. If I had a V10 or diesel van I would go 4x4, but the 5.4 motor will limit the van's value if you do a full 4x4 conversion. I had zero issues here in Colorado with being 2wd, I never ran out of traction in the summer and I carried a good set of chains in the winter. With the 6" lift on mine, with tires, gears, tune I was into it for around $3,800. If you do all your own work you'll save easily 50% in costs. Things like tires and wheels are cheap on CL. I used two ladder rack cross bars. Bought a 54"x92" tri fold aluminum atv ramp on ebay for $150, bolted it together, fabbed up some sides and painted it all epoxy black. Into it for less than $300 and it could hold 800lbs. Got the front air dam for it at the junkyard off a roof rack there for $5. V10 or diesel: Go 4x4, u-joint sells a conversion for at home install 5.4: 6" 2wd lift Weldtech
@@winmag4582001 That's awesome, great idea with the aluminum ATV ramp bolted to the ladder rack cross bars! I'll have to give that a go for sure, I'd put a spare up there like you had then probably put two more cross bars toward the front for the rooftop tent. I'm real excited to start building ours out, I appreciate your feedback and help! Maybe I'll get a video up once it's done. We've got a trip planned to oceanside this upcoming summer and Weldtec is very close so I'll have to see about saving up for the lift while we're down there! Thanks again for posting this!
@@winmag4582001 thanks for the 5.4 info … you just saved me a lot of $$… I was thinking of 4x4 … now thinking I’m better off just doing the lift … thanks again
Great looking van. Thanks for taking the time to review the lift. I am planning the same lift. I wondered if you have any stability issues with the 2" spacers or a wobble? I am considering a negative offset rim vs the spacer. Thanks again, Cheers
I just did mine 2 in level and 2 in block with 1 in adapters for the wheels. The place did the alignment but it’s horrible. They said I need new shocks and the stabilizer. What u think? Pls help
You will need new front shocks. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HxGrpzjsN7M.html You'll also have to find a shop that can do an alignment. Chain stores SUCK at everything. They really really suck. Installing a stabilizer will reduce bump-steer if you go with bigger tires. The frame is already pre-drilled and tapped for the frame bracket, for the steering rod end you can go to the junkyard and get the mounting bracket off any ford pickup.
West shore did my rear rotors and pads. The level kit plus wheels and tires. Also the adapters plus the same camber kit u have. Alignment was also done. So after my complaint he said I need steering damper plus shocks. They ordered the rough country dual shock which didn’t fit and I mentioned it but he said that those vans have the same chassis. I’m gonna order on Amazon then have them do it. Ask for my alignment money so I can go elsewhere. Thx for ur help. Pls add any new update to help me.
I'd never do that to mine. Why go to all the trouble, why increase the roll over propensity, why lower the mpg, why make it harder to get in and out of, why even bigger tires that you now can't even hardly lift yourself anymore, why lift it when the axles clearance stays the same, why mess with the factory balanced axle ratios......
Why build a 200mph car? Why own a Ducati capable of 204mph in the mile? Why throw big tires on a POS jeep? Why lift weights and balance your diet? Why hike a mountain? Why climb the Flatirons? Because I can. That's why. LOL
Why build a 200mph car? So we can physically race chasing and creating more mind machine energy as our fully activated adult mind machine is racing in obsessive unnecessary reality warping thoughts...till we crash back down to the physical and out of our head clouds of dilution.. Drugs are bad umkay
@@JimTMcDaniels1 Nobody is forcing you to do anything Sally. If it scares you, don't do it. If you're having issues "wrapping your mind around it", it's probably a lack of testosterone on your part. You can get that checked out. Until then, stay in the kitchen and keep the crying to a minimum. You're definitely "that guy". You're on every forum, every page, every site. If you don't understand, you never will. Good luck.
Oh Sir Brett it does look like a great job done and it has the cool effect. Yet where’s the honesty full disclosure that all us viewers deserve, we that you are wanting to educate? I mean the only con you share is the tricky alignment needed and the reduced ride quality right? How about the reduced mpg, how about the costs, how about how heavy the tires are now to service or how they might be illegal because the come past the wheel well? How about how the tires now will now throw more rocks at vehicles behind you, maybe cracking their windshields? How about now the van might roll over more easily? Only you could share what other cons you have noticed. I can take all the testosterone down my throat you can dump I can swallow But let’s not get that confused with a but of a bully who doesn’t even show his proud face because that’s not cool. So I’m here in small print to share some of the cons with the viewers who might read further. What’s the problem with that? Take care amd let’s support each other to make our earth the best for all life supported equally and honestly.
You could. At that point you would have to get longer brake lines. The Baja kit has the front and rear brake lines at their max. You could get a hold of Weldtec and see what Jeremy uses for extended brake lines.
