The Automotive Customizers site www.4x4parts.com has grown immensely due to its success in offering exclusively Nissan aftermarket parts, as well as a wide range of off road products. This company seems to be the first with many of these products!
This lift seems to be a compilation rather than a redesign; other than the lack of a panhard drop down bracket -it's very complete. A 4" drop kit from trailmaster was just too involved, and did not increase the tortion bar strength to counter body roll on the taller truck, but provides stock down travel for slightly better road contact for the front wheels. I used low profile bumpstops to allow further downward travel.
The springs and shocks were easy enough, but the tortion bars were a b!ich to install! I had to cut the bars at the anchor arms, and after much heat, banging, and penetrating oil -they were liberated for installing new Tortion bars!
The bumpers were lots of fun! We got a good understanding of Dave's tubing bender, plasma cutter, welder, and the stuff that comes out of your nose after days of grinding metal!
The front bumper was made from a liberated lamp pole, a 1/4" steel plate underneath for winch mounting, and a 5/8" plate up front. We made the brush gaurd of Homedepot pipes and some expanded metal! The rear bumper was made of some heavy tubing refuse sourced from a construction dumpster!
