Hercules801

The white truck’s look is the ballpark of what I’m trying to do. I brought it to Four Wheel Parts to get a second price option on the skyjacker lift kit and they wanted to do a front end inspection. They turn around and say that I need a complete front end rebuild, which they define as steering rods, a track bar and new bushings for $2500... they said that the steering rods and track bar have play to them. I honestly don’t know where they pulled $2500 from though. I put it up on the lift and didn’t see any play with the track bar jumping around. I think I might add a steering gear box brace that they sell. Honestly the reason I mainly want a lift is to have 17” rims with some 35s.

Do small changes like that out additional stress on the body?

The two lifts come with control arms, coils, track bar brackets, blocks and u bolts. The difference between the two is just the amount of control arms. I’m not sure if that changes what you said or I just described it wrong initially.

Hey Everyone, Currently in the market to lift my truck to get a little more clearance and also to put larger wheels on. I went to my local store and they’re pushing a rough country 3” lift, which replaces 4 control arms and the other option I was interested in was the skyjacker 2.5” lift with only 2 control arms being replaced. I’ve heard negative things about rough country, but I can’t find any substantial evidence online besides them being on the cheaper side of lifts. Does anyone have any experiences? Additionally, with this lift I will add a dual steering stabilizer and a steering gearbox brace to try to correct for a drift at 70mph and also the truck kind of having sloppy steering reactions.

I’m going to try swapping the AC relay (I think that’s what it’s called) in the fuse box . My idea is if two of the fuses blew in there then chances are pretty good that the AC one did as well. As for the radio, I guess I’ll try to swapping a new unit out

Yeah I think I was misunderstanding you initially. After discovering that literally no auto store stocks 140 Amp fuses, I went down to my pick and pull. After swapping it out, both the 1682/1687 codes disappeared and the battery gauge is pinging at 14v. The 1693 gauge is still popping up. Additionally the last two quarks I am finding is my Pioneer 3500 NEX is not powering up, but my radio fuse isn't blown and the AC wasn't blowing cold air, but I haven't tested it since I fixed that one fuse. Any ideas?

I found out that the 140 Amp for the alternator was blown and I think that's causing the 1682. I went to an autozone and the guy said the alternator was giving off a very insignificant amount of charge, so I am hoping it's because the fuse is blown. I was reading somewhere that the 1687 could be caused by the FASS because it doesn't use the same electrical source that the old lift pump once utilized... I removed the lift pump when I installed the new FASS 95.

Good Morning! A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to find a 2001 Dodge 2500 manual 4wd long bed with 62K original miles. I drove it down from Montana to New Mexico, which I had the brake lines replaced pretty much immediately because there was a slight leak. I was driving to work and then all of a sudden I lost power, which caused the truck to stall out in the middle of the road. It turned out to be a bad lift pump, which I replaced with the Titanium Series Fass95 only to find out the Vp44 went with it. The shop I had originally had the truck brought to drained both 10 year old batteries accidentally and for some reason when they recharged them one of the batteries had the terminal reverse... I obviously took my truck as far away as possible from them and installed both the lift/injection pump myself. I finally got the truck to turn over yesterday and it threw several pcodes: P1682, P1687, P1693 I know some may be associated with the new Fass lift pump since it is not using the old lift pump's sensors, but I am not sure if all are associated. I do lose battery voltage in the gauge when I am driving, but I know there is nothing wrong with the batteries because they're brand new. Additionally, it doesn't feel like the ac is blowing cold air nor is the aftermarket radio receiving power. I checked the fuses, but I do not see anything blow.