From a 1.5-Inch Level to a 12-Inch Long-Arm Build
A lift kit is the single biggest change you can make to a truck, and it is the one most often done badly. Bolting a spacer on and sending it out the door is easy. Correcting the driveline angles, the track bar, the brake lines and the caster so the truck still drives straight and does not eat tires — that is the job.
We install suspension lifts, leveling kits, body lifts and engineered ride-quality systems on half-ton, three-quarter-ton and one-ton trucks and on full-size SUVs. Every lift we write includes the alignment, because a lift without one is a truck with a brand new set of ruined tires waiting to happen.
Our door rate is $150 an hour, every operation is quoted from a published labor time, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
1.5–2.5 inches, front only. Takes the factory rake out, usually clears a 33-inch tire on a half-ton, same ride quality, often same day.
The most common build we do. New shocks, corrected geometry, extended brake lines, and 33s to 37s underneath it.
Long-arm and four-link systems with full driveline and steering correction. Done properly these ride better than most 6-inch spacer kits.
Carli, Westcott, ICON, Fox and King. Engineered spring rates and matched valving for trucks that tow and haul. Height is a by-product. Carli install, in-house ›
Body lift alone or stacked with a suspension lift when the tire size needs it and the budget says so.
Adjustable control arms, track bars, cam bolts, carrier bearing drops and pinion shims — the parts that make a lift behave.
Driveline vibration. Raise a truck and you change the angle the driveshaft runs at. Past a certain point the U-joints run rough and you feel it at highway speed. The fix is a carrier bearing drop, a pinion shim or a longer shaft, and it needs to be planned into the job rather than discovered afterward.
Caster left short. Lifting pulls caster out of range. Too little caster and the steering feels light and wanders, and the truck will not return to centre on its own. Adjustable arms or cam bolts fix it. A shop that only sets toe will hand you back a truck that feels nervous at 70.
Brake lines at full droop. Stock lines are cut for stock travel. On a lifted truck at full articulation they can go tight, and a stretched line is a line about to fail. Extended lines are cheap; finding out the hard way is not.
The wrong shock for the truck. Most complaints about a lift riding rough are really complaints about the shock. Valving matched to the spring rate and to how the truck is actually used matters more than the brand on the body.
The version where none of that happens. An engineered system — springs, shocks, geometry and correction parts designed together by one manufacturer — takes the guesswork out. That is what Carli Suspension builds, and every system is installed in our own bay. It costs more than a bolt-on kit and it is not the right answer for every truck, but if you tow, haul or put real miles on it, it is worth reading about before you spend a dollar ›
A leveling kit on a half-ton is usually in the several-hundred-dollar range installed. A 6-inch system on a three-quarter-ton with shocks, wheels, tires and an alignment is a different order of magnitude. We build you a written, itemized quote before anything is ordered, usually while you are still on the phone.
Depends on the truck, the cab and bed configuration, the wheel offset and the lift. A leveling kit typically gets a half-ton to a 33. Four to six inches opens up 35s and 37s. We check clearance at full lock and full compression against your exact truck before ordering, which is how you avoid rubbing.
It does not have to. A well-chosen system with properly valved shocks can ride better than stock. A cheap spacer kit on worn factory shocks will ride worse. We will tell you honestly which category a given kit falls into.
Often, yes — call and ask. We will tell you up front what we can and cannot warranty on a part we did not supply, and if a kit is missing hardware or is the wrong one for your truck, you will hear that before we start.
Our shop is at 4020 Trey Ln, Unit B in Argyle, and we work on trucks from Argyle, Flower Mound, Bartonville, Copper Canyon, Justin and Northlake, plus Denton, Roanoke, Trophy Club, Keller, Haslet, Highland Village and the wider Metroplex within about fifty miles.
Open Monday to Saturday, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Closed Sunday. (940) 240-1958
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Authorized dealer for all 42 brands below.
Authorized dealer for every brand listed above. Running something that is not on this list? We can source and install almost any major aftermarket suspension, wheel, tire or accessory line — give us a call and we will price it out.
We are an authorized dealer for every brand below. Each page covers the real product ladder, the warranty terms and what we would actually put on your truck.