UN-lifting my blazer..

[therron258]

I have a 98 s10 blazer that has a Tmaster lift on it. I want to have the lift removed and just run on my body lift and smaller tires.

would a shop do this? how hard would it be to get the vehicle back to stock suspension specs?

I want the lift taken off because all i do anymore is tow my boat with it and the 33's sort of bog it down when going up hills and pulling it out of the water after it is put on the trailer.

If someone wanted to, i would even let them use my driveway and swap their parts with mine and have a free trailmaster lift...

[4x4zr2GA]

thats the only way you can do it... becuase with the lift... parts had to be cut off... so the only way your gonna be able to do this is if someone wants the lift and knows how to weld the parts they cut off of their truck and onto yours... good deal for someone tho

[4x4zr2GA]

why not take the body lift off and run 31's?

[therron258]

would a shop do that? im leaving for college in a week, i have the money, but not the time.

wouldnt i need stock body bolts?

[wrekd]

Yeah you'll need stock body bolts. I just did the same thing to mine about 2 months ago.

[therron258]

was it hard to do? does it run better now?

[orangesonoma]

when you did the lift did you change out the gears? mine has all sorts of tourqe low end with 4.56's

and if parts were cut off its not going to be a simple swap out

[snoma20]

Where are you located i would def trade?

[therron258]

in madisonville KY.
id trade my 33's for 31's if someone just wanted to come take my body lift off.

no i didnt do gears, just stock 373's

[orangesonoma]

Quote: Originally Posted by therron258

no i didnt do gears, just stock 373's

well thats your problem.. mine was shitty with 373...once i did the 4.56 the life came back and then some

[Tankerblade]

Just get some new gearing for the rear and you'll have a fine rig and im sure it'll tow a bit better with the new gearing.

[orangesonoma]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tankerblade

Just get some new gearing for the rear and you'll have a fine rig and im sure it'll tow a bit better with the new gearing.

i would do both.. you dont want the transfer case to bind up

[therron258]

wont my gas mileage go down the shitter?

[orangesonoma]

Quote: Originally Posted by therron258

wont my gas mileage go down the shitter?

what do you get now? and it depends on how you drive.. my truck gets WOT a few times a day and all i do is highway...about 40-60-100 miles...some time even more

[therron258]

WOT?

i get 13-15 now

how much would gears cost?

[orangesonoma]

wide open throttle...wot


i get 12-14 and liek i said i beat on it.. gears will run you around 300-500

and you can hold off and do just the rear but do not put it in 4wd....your transfer case will hate you

but i will tell you out of all the things i did to my blazer the gears made the best difference...and you dont need 4.56 you can go 4.11

[S15vortecpwr]

i gained mpg when i went from 3.08 to 3.73 on my truck. i have them just in the rear since i never offroad. i just unhooked the cable from the vac ball under my battery. I only sees highway. I average about 16 now on the highway. I have 31 AT on it. Since you pull a boat i would go with 4.56

You will not be able to remove the lift due to the upper control mounts was cut all but off for the brackets to bolt up. I installed mine and it states multiple in the instructions that this is a non-reversible kit. Any attempt to remove will weaken the front suspension mounts and can cause serious injury or death.

[therron258]

my cv's are shot, so no 4x4 would be used anyway.

[DieselS10]

Just change the gears, it's your best solution and like they said, it will probably help your mileage.

[ChrisInVT]

IMO don't bother changing the gears. You can put 3-500 into gearing and you'll still have a shitty 10-bolt. You can snag an 8.8 from a Ford Explorer with a limited slip and 4.10's for around $200. That's the route I'm going because I don't feel like paying to have someone install my posi carrier.

[therron258]

i would rather just sell the thing for 3000!!!!!!!

[therron258]

well ive come up witht he following plan:

Get BL taken off
Get 31s instead of my 33's and sell the 33s
Possibly get gears if still needed.

I found some 31 11.00 15 super swamper LTB's for 130 apiece + 100 shipping, are these good tires? is that a good deal?

[chris15706]

Those are some aggressive tires.

btw check out the s-10 on the interco homepage.

http://www.intercotire.com/site.php

[What?]

depends how many miles on the truck, you could sell it for 3k and get another from auction/towing company/police auctions, tweak tbar and shackle, 31s and call it a day

or no tweak tbar and bl along with 31s


otherwise, sell the bl and 33s, get the 31s

[19954x4]

i live in somerset ky if ur still wanting to trade for a lift