Timmae!! Found something you'd like:

[TJVigilante]

http://www.suspensionconnection.com/cgi-bin/suscon/scan/fi=products/st=db/co=1/sf=category/se=Lift%20Kits/op=eq/nu=0/sf=veh_make/se=Dodge/op=eq/nu=0/sf=model/se=Dodge%20Dakota%20%3A%3A%20Durango%20-%20Lift%20Kits/op=eq/nu=0/ml=25/tf=category/to=x/tf=veh_make/to=x/tf=model/to=x/tf=description/to=r.html?id=ZCBIGriQ

The only Dakota lift kits I've found, doesn't look too bad for the price. Tuff Country has a bit of a bad reputation, but for that price I'm sure you can fix any downfalls. That or you'll just go to Damien for an X-Factor treatment.

[LowNSlowNeon]

http://www.truckn-store.com/product.asp?returnURL=application_list.asp&ID=91815


http://www.truckn-store.com/product.asp?returnURL=application_list.asp&ID=82418


http://www.truckn-store.com/product.asp?returnURL=application_list.asp&ID=87302

[AK20]

Tuff Country has a bit of a bad reputation, but for that price I'm sure you can fix any downfalls.


I think your thinking of ROUGH Country, Tuff Country makes an awesome product...one of the best out IMHO. If they made 8" springs that's who I would have bought from, but they didn't so I went BDS.

[Timmae]

TJ, thanks for the thought, ive already been to that site, and if you look at the year that lift will fit it wont fit the 2003 dakota. and LNS what is a hanger used for? the second link you posted up.

[AK20]

Looks like basic extended shackles, lowers your shackle mounts for stock springs resulting in overall lift...kind of like a shackle flip.

[Timmae]

hmmm, i may do this instead of a SAS, thoughts anyone?

[jeepin_al]

I think you still will have limited flex and the liabilities of IFS. For heavy wheeling the SAS is the way to go and I would think you could do it for fairly close to the same price with much better results.

[sittincopilot]

You know you want to put a SAS in it so just do!!!! and stop getting side tracked.....time is ticking. hehe

[LowNSlowNeon]

So uh timmae - going TDY anytime soon or got a big piggy bank hiding somewhere? If so I say SAS it ;)

[sittincopilot]

So uh timmae - going TDY anytime soon or got a big piggy bank hiding somewhere? If so I say SAS it ;)


His piggy bank= my bank account... or so he thinks :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[LowNSlowNeon]

So uh timmae - going TDY anytime soon or got a big piggy bank hiding somewhere? If so I say SAS it ;)


His piggy bank= my bank account... or so he thinks :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


:o

Timmae found a keeper. :)



SAS it for real man. PM mousee... talk it up... and dew it ;)

[Timmae]

unfortunatly no tdy for me in the future. and a piggy bank soon to be tapable. but must wait hehe. +;) ok since a SAS is most likely the way to go, any thoughts on body lift? ive heard good and bad things about it. the most id go would be 2 inch, so that i could have a little more room for wheel stuffage.

[LowNSlowNeon]

Body lift = the devil....

Seriously - add a leaf > body lifts

[AK20]

Zero Rates from ORD will net 1" lift, plus you can offset your axle up to 1.5" front or rear. I'd do that over a body lift, oh and SAS it already!

[mousee]

ok I am confused with the second link. FRONT and rear leaf spring hangers?... isn't it IFS in the front? thaught so. never seen a leaf spring IFS :lol:


IMO, UP TO a 1" bl is acceptable, up to a 1" zero rate add a leaf ('nother word for lift block) is acceptable. a combination of the two would give you a one inch increase overall and an additional inch in the rear. if you crank your torsion bar an inch it would be level, but not so good on the front.
you could waste... er uh spend your money on an IFS lift, and if it is going to be mainly street use then that would be fine. but...

anyway, aheemmmcoughcoughSAScoughcough...

[TJVigilante]

Guess I have alot to learn. at least I sparked a good conversation and got Timmae's tail in gear. :D

[mousee]

this is a very good subject! I have been an advocate of a SAS for many years now. even before it was cool :) I remember one time I tried to talk someone into a SAS (about eight years ago now :o) the first lift kit went in, then the second, and then the third. after that and many sets of tyres, he finally caved and did it. couldn't have been happier after that:) I have wheeled IFS and solid and will never wheel an IFS again (unless I am going about a buck something through the desert) unless I re engineer it of course...

[crazy4ink]

Just go with the SAS and be done with the whole thing. Like Mousee said, don't do a BL taller than 1". Any taller than that and you start seeing the big gaps between the frame and floor, linkages get too stretched out and your center of gravity is higher.