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Your Jeep, truck or SUV will get a lift from a properly installed lift kit

He was thrilled with the used truck he had just bought. The lift kit, the big-beefy tires: it was a monster rolling down the highway. And, when he took it off road, as he planned to do this coming weekend, he expected it to take the roughest terrain in stride. While imagining the truck clawing through mud and over hills, he hit a minor bump on the highway. Though he revved the engine, the truck just slowly rolled to a stop.


Climbing out, he looked under the truck to discover his driveshaft had falled out of the back of the transmission. His reaction was a bit stronger than, “Darn it.”

A lift kit will give a vehicle extra ground clearance. It will make room for those honkin’ tires you want. It will help make your Jeep, truck or SUV off-road capable. But, the lift kit installation has to be done correctly.

In the case of the truck above, the lift kit was installed by the previous owner – a teenager. The installation was, apparently, fine – except for one thing.

When you install a lift kit, the distance from the back of the transmission and the differential will increase. If it grows too much, the drive shaft may not be long enough. That’s why, when the new owner of the truck hit a bump, with the leaf springs moving the differential, that distance momentarily grew some more and the drive shaft fell out.

Recently, Performance Unlimited, of Ringwood, IL, announced that they are now an authorized dealer for Superlift Suspensions, the premier manufacturer of lift kits. For those who want to tackle their own lift kit installation, they can order the lift kit to fit their vehicle from Performance Unlimited. However, if they want the lift kit professionally installed, Performance Unlimited can ensure the job is done right.

There are other performance auto shops that can also install lift kits. Whether you use one of them, or Performance Unlimited or you install a lift kit yourself, it’s vital that the job is done right. A drive shaft falling out on the highway is one thing. A drive shaft that falls out while traversing an off-road landscape is a hazard; the vehicle could pole vault from the drive shaft.
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