I personally prefer a dynamic body lift. I'd weld 4 scissor jacks between my body and frame, then I can just raise or lower my body lift depending on the size of tire I'm running. If I wanted a static lift, I'd just buy some cast iron pipe and cut it to the length I need.

 

this thread scares me

 

ok ok yall do what you want. its yalls trucks and yalls life. go right ahead and lift your trucks with wood and hockey pucks. I'll just save my money and do it the "RIGHT WAY"

freakin ayyyeeee they make body lift blocks for a reason people. Hockey pucks are meant for hockey. body lift blocks are meant to lift truck bodies. you see where im goin with this.

Lemme ask all of yins something would you put your child or even let your child ride in a truck lifted the wrong/incorrect way? I know I wouldnt.

Use wood for house frames and decks and what its ment for. Use hockey pucks for the freakin ice. And use lift blocks for lift blocks. Its that simple. I know alot of people dont have money... IM ONE OF THEM. I get paid the same amount every month and with a wife and a baby on the way i can only imagine it gettin more expensive. I save the money that I can. Or if I do a job on the side of my career then I put that money away.

Simply put. Dont be dumb. Do it the right way the first time and it wont have to be done again!!!!

 

all joking aside, check a local shop might be able to order you individual body spacers of the right kind for cheap, i had to replace one and a local shop here got me one for 5 bucks for a 2" lift spacer. never know till you ask.

 

lets make some racing seats out of some 55 gallon drums while where at it!!! and use some rope as a seat belt!

 

yeeeehaw....lets do

 

Glad your going with the kit...

on a side note... (not condoning this)
3" lift... pucks are what 1" thick? 30 pucks roughly, wouldn't be cheap.

FUN FACT!
The average lifespan of an NHL hockey puck is 7 minutes

 

put 13 inch wheels on & tell everybody it has a body lift

 

a friend of mine made a body lift with hockey pucks, but he made a metal sleeve and forced the pucks in to keep them from vibrating and to shield them from the heat of the motor, 2" square steel works untill the body rots and the mounts come though that cab,

 

Nothin wrong with hockey pucks. Ive seen pucks outlast the trucks their on. Stop whining about safety and grow a pair.

 

Shit son, I'd use black iron pipe. Why don't you try that on for size.

 

I know Im late the party here, but you should not be allowed to reproduce if you think HOCKEY pucks are a good thing to lift your truck with.

 

^ i second this statement

 

that blazer is actuatly in the pull-a-part here in montgomery. It is powered by a 2.8l with auto. the body is actuatly above the engine. If its the same one. I seen it about 2 weeks ago in the yard. The wheels/tires are long gone tho. They used conduit pipe and welded to the frame and body to lift it.

 

I just stack dip cans 3 or 4 high and use them.

 

full or empty? lol

 

DO IT WITH WOOD best decision ever man

 

DO IT WITH WOOD best decision ever man

And make sure it is YELLOWWOOD brand. it will protect you from rot and decay.

 

Alright, flame me if you want.

http://xfaktor.net:8082/Projects/Suzuki/PuckLift/PuckLift.html

I also googled hockey puck lift fail, hockey puck lift accident, hockey puck lift death, etc. etc. etc.
I have yet to see the evidence of a bad puck lift.

 

Nothing like a nice hack job. Way to put everyones lives at risk because your a cheapass.

 

This is why some states have annual inspections.......If you want to see a good reason to spend the money on a proper body lift......here we go

Notice how the body lift is still intact, lets see hockey pucks hold up

 

Notice how the body lift is still intact, lets see hockey pucks hold up

AMEN!! I sure as hell ain't gonna trust my dam life on hockey pucks. As afore mentioned, they have their purpose, and it's hockey, not to be put on trucks as a lift substitute. You wouldn't trust a $5 whore with your d*ck, so why the hell would you trust your life with $3 hockey pucks??? (or however much the pucks cost. Actually, :whogives: (catch the pun? :haha about how much they cost) :censor: cheap ass.

It's like going skydiving with a parachute that you THINK is packed correctly. You might land softly. You might hit like a ton of bricks and splatter. Do you really want to be the one who finds out? I sure as hell don't.

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??? And this proves? I'm pretty sure that the bolt is what kept the two together, not the lifting blocks. The hockey pucks are just there to keep the two separate. I worked at an outdoor hockey rink this year, and we put a hockey puck to the test. We put it in a big vise, and squeezed it as hard as we could. The hockey puck slightly squished, after we put a cheater bar on the vise to tighten it harder. We could've kept going, but the vise would've gave before the hockey puck did. After we removed the puck, it had slight indentation from the waffling on the vise, which went away in about 5 minutes. It also had an oval-ish shape, which went away in 10 minutes. While it was in the vise, we took a two foot pipe wrench to it, and tried to snap it in half- we failed miserably. Don't believe me? Try it out yourself, then try a lift block. I'm pretty sure I know which one will fail first. Oh, and we also dropped a full-size Western plow on one, and the puck survived that too...

 

You just proved my point. The body lift spacer is ridged it didnt flex, bend or deform in any way. The center of the spacer has a hole the same size as the bolt used so there isnt any give there either. not to mention the body lift spacer is one soild piece not 2 or 3 glued together. And also did you see the axle that broke but not the grade 5 bolt used to bolt down the box?

 

The bolt will snap, bend, shear, whatever the heck else you want it to do. Expose ANY piece of rubber to the elements and it will fail. Given, it may take a while, but it'll fail none-the-less. Now add the stress of off-roading and combine that with rocks, mud, heat, cold, ice, snow, etc. and you get the point. I didn't say/state/write/type that I didn't believe you. I was merely giving an opinion and ranting. Personally, I think it's friggin retarded and you should have your balls cut off if you lift/raise a vehicle with a hockey puck.

But since you called me out... Which flexes more? Rubber or a piece of plastic that will withstand tens of thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch? Rubber will every time. Try to literally crush a body lift block with a vise and... Oh yeah, it won't collapse. Try to break it? Still won't break. I'm not an engineer or anything, but columns withstand more pressure than most anything else (triangles are a diff story). They're used under bridges, in buildings, in lots of things. Point is.... That "plastic" is stronger than your hockey puck. Did I mention it's really hard to get a BL to break into pieces??

 

He should have put his balls in the vice.

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Wow, what an excellent argument! I love the way you froth at the mouth...

 

I love the way this post is going, and love seeing a heated debate. I have personally not done a hockey puck body lift, but if I EVER did one, it would be in the style of the website I posted earlier. If you put PVC around your pucks, and seal them well, weather, oil, etc. would not be an issue... which would slow down or stop them from dry-rotting out. But I would still check up on them from time to time, even if it was a $100 lift that I purchased, to make sure that it wasn't going south, and the bolt's would definitely be overkill...

But pretty much anything that you put on a vehicle will eventually corrode, break, wear down, etc., and the vehicle that I would put it on would probably die before the hockey puck did.

In my opinion, if your not expecting to pamper the vehicle for 10 years, go for it! But do it right.

 

You would enjoy me frothing at the mouth

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I dont need to explain why using hockey pucks is a bad idea. Its been beaten to death on so many forums and a few times on this one. If you cant see the hazards with doing something like that, then you need to put your balls in a vice so you don't reproduce. Unless your driving over a pile of hockey pucks, there is no reason those things need to be under your truck.

 

oh boy, there are many other forums that advocate the use of 'em, and this is just one that doesn't. The fact of the matter is, that many many people have done these lifts, are still riding on these lifts, and aren't afraid of these lifts. Just 'cause you say it's a bad idea doesn't mean that people are going to stop doing it altogether... no matter what your stance is on the subject, they do work. Will they work forever? Probably not. But i'm pretty sure the people doing these kind of lifts already know the risks, and obviously aren't afraid to try it.

 

oh boy, there are many other forums that advocate the use of 'em, and this is just one that doesn't. The fact of the matter is, that many many people have done these lifts, are still riding on these lifts, and aren't afraid of these lifts. Just 'cause you say it's a bad idea doesn't mean that people are going to stop doing it altogether... no matter what your stance is on the subject, they do work. Will they work forever? Probably not. But i'm pretty sure the people doing these kind of lifts already know the risks, and obviously aren't afraid to try it.

I'm plenty scared of them. Kinda like how I'm scared of the blazer with that 12" BL....

But we're sure gonna try to get them to not be such a cheap ass!

Wanna bet? There's plenty of friggin idiots who go buy pucks, drill a hole in the middle of them, buy bolts as Lowe's, and then viola! An instant body lift. Refer to #1.

 

Aside from going up, im about to go down and if you can use hockey pucks to lift why not lower! I plan to cut my springs, remove my bump stops, followed by adding hockey pucks as lowering blocks(Canadian ones of course because im Canadian) than remove a few leaf springs. I will create a build thread shortley figured this would fit in around here.

 

The hockey pucks I found around the rink when the snow melted mostly said "MADE IN SLOVAKIA" what about your Canadian ones?