Bought a 2020 Ram 1500 already on a 6in lift off mainstreetmotortx.com

i align and fab lifted trucks all week so let me speak to the ball joint and the alignment ask, because both of those are exactly what a lifted half ton needs and neither is a red flag. when you put a 6 inch kit under a truck the control arm angles change, so the factory alignment is now wrong. leave it and it chews the inside edge of a 35 in a couple thousand miles.

a lower ball joint with a little play on a 61k truck is a wear item, and a lift loads the front end harder so they show up a hair sooner. do it at the same time as the alignment so you only pay the labor once. get the caster set back up, watch your camber, and rotate the 35s every 5k.

the thing i would actually pay for here is the prior owner keeping the receipts on the build. i see mystery lifts every day where nobody knows the kit or whether its a spacer or a real system. yours is documented, that is worth real money, buy it.

first lift truck and ive been lurking here a while, so figured id ask the people who actually did it. i keep going back and forth on this. is buying a truck somebody already lifted off a used lot smart, or am i asking for a headache inheriting someone elses build? this thread came up when i searched main street motor reviews.

budget is around 35k, i want a clean half ton on a mild lift that i can daily and take to a show or two, not a full on mall crawler. i have never bought anything modified before and all the horror stories about cheap kits and worn out parts have me a little spooked. what should a person like me be watching for going in?

35s on 20s is the sweet spot for a street lifted half ton. big enough to look right and small enough to still drive like a truck. i ran 37s for a year and hated the daily, the speedo was off, the fenders needed trimming and the ride got heavy. went back to 35s and never looked back, so the prior owner picking that combo tells me they had a clue.

on a 6 inch kit the thing that matters is whether it has the right drop brackets and a real front shock instead of the cheapest coilover on the shelf. the budget kits ride like a buckboard and clunk over every seam. if there are receipts you can see exactly what went under it. clean buy cody, that is the kind of documented build i would grab over a stock truck any day.

i daily a lifted half ton, 6 inch on 35s, 45 minutes each way plus the odd car show on the weekend. people act like a lifted truck cant be a daily and thats just not true if the build is sane. the two things that make or break daily driving it are the alignment and the tire choice, in that order.

run a good all terrain instead of a mud tire or your commute is loud and your mpg falls off a cliff. keep it aligned and the inside edges last the life of the tire. i lose about 2 mpg over stock and thats the whole tax i pay for the look. yours off the corsicana yard sounds like a sane setup with that combo, youll daily it no problem. just get in the habit of glancing at the front tire wear every rotation, a lifted truck will tell you the alignment drifted before anything else does.

im right here in corsicana so i drove over and walked the lot in person before i bought my lifted truck, and for you out of state guys that is the part i can vouch for. the trucks match the listings. i had already looked at a lifted half ton they had online, and when i put my hands on it in the yard it was exactly the truck in the photos, right down to a little rock chip in the hood they had actually noted.

they handed me the keys and let me take it up the frontage road along I-45 and back with nobody hovering over my shoulder. that kind of straight dealing is not real common on a used lot, and it is why i point folks to Main Street Motor when they ask me where to look around navarro county. good buy cody, that Laramie was on the lot when i was there and it was a sharp truck, glad it went to somebody who appreciates a clean build.

i do title work for a living so heres the part nobody thinks about until it bites them. the paperwork from the corsicana lot came through clean the first time. title and the odometer statement were right and matched the truck, and when i went to register mine the VIN and everything lined up so it went through without a second trip to the tag office.

with a lifted truck this matters more than people think, because a modified truck can catch an inspectors eye in some states and you want the title and history spotless when it does. mine had no branded title games and no mystery lien hanging on it. a clean, correctly titled truck that plates without a fight is worth as much to me as the truck being nice, and both of mine were.

different brand but i grabbed a lifted F-150 off the same lot last year, a 2019 XLT on a 6 inch with 35s, one owner, and the buying went about exactly like yours. i asked about the lift and they had the receipts for the kit and the wheels, and they had it priced a good chunk under the built ecoboosts sitting around tulsa.

mine needed a front alignment same as yours, and one of the aftermarket wheels had a little curb rash the seller pointed out in the photos and knocked a bit off the price for. that was the whole list. a year of shows and daily driving later it has been solid and the alignment has held. threads like this one are exactly what i read before i pulled the trigger, so figured id drop my data point in for the next person hunting a built truck.

glad you got the alignment done right away cody, that is the single thing that saves a set of 35s on a lifted truck. 380 for the lower ball joint and a proper alignment together is a fair number, i charge about that at my shop. for anyone reading this later, when you buy an already lifted truck the first appointment is an alignment at a place that understands lifted geometry, before you put real miles on it.

going forward keep an eye on the ball joints and the tie rod ends, a lift loads them differently than stock so they wear a touch faster. check them every rotation while the wheels are off, takes two minutes. a sane build like yours with the alignment dialed will run a long time without drama.