Anyone put the 3in rough country lift on the Chevy 2500

Had it on another truck. It's kind of shite. I probably wouldn't do it again. The ball joints just did not last long.

i would look into a bilstein lift, if they make one for your truck.

I know of some high school kids that did theirs.


No one over the age of 25 though.

Post this every once and a while -

Don't do it. Lift kits are universally awful. Why would you modify what is likely the 2nd or 3rd most expensive thing you own so extensively that it dramatically reduces its utility and value? With IFS it's even worse than normal, even if you do everything "right" like dropping the differential, minimizing wheel offset, and regearing it.

I had a top-tier lift kit on a truck when I was in college. Sure, it was cool. It ate front end parts, got worse fuel mileage, was a bitch to tow anything with, and never did anything off road that it couldn't have done with aggressive factory sized tires, not to mention the tires were vastly more expensive. I had to re-gear it to put up with the bigger tires. With the best lift money could buy, it was still more expensive to keep running than a factory truck would have been, and it was less useful than a factory 4x4 truck. Literally the only thing it did better than a factory truck was look cooler. EVERYTHING else was worse.

Sure, it seems like a cool idea. In 2 years when you're driving a creaky part eating gas sucking pain in the arse that doesn't fit anywhere and pisses your wife off every time she gets in or out of it, you'll be wondering why you spent so much money modifying a truck to make it cost you more money and be less useful.

if you only want a lift and not peformance, then a cheap lift will give you that. if you want quality ride and offroad performance it will cost you. my first lift was a ready lift sst and it cost 1k the ride was not great.

now i have an icon vehicle dynamics lift and it cost 4.5k big diff in quality and ride.