Seriously considering lifting it up...Advice, please

[Your41Plague12]

Originally Posted by dfrank

I didn't have to lengthen the transfer case linkage on my 86 k10. As for loose nuts inside the cab I was able to get a mig welder in there and re-tac the nut down. Now if the bolt broke you are pretty buch screwd. Thats what a torch is for before you crank on a bolt that won't move. Just don't get the torch next to fuel tank or fuel lines.

Mine were already broken off inside the new cab I bought. I had no choice but to cut the floor and attack it from the top. But there was no chance of me getting a torch near the rear driver's side cab bolt; it was dangerously close to the gas tank. For that one, I just used a hole saw on the raised flat portion of the floor (right against the back wall of the cab) and it exposed the nut/bolt in the crossmember underneath. When I was done, I just welded it back up. The floor pan was a little more difficult and took some trial and error. There's really no good way to measure it.

As for the transfer case linkage issue, how high of a body lift did you have? Mine needed lengthened, for sure. I had a 3" on mine.