[Justin1175]

OK, so this weekend I installed my Rough Country 6" lift on my 2008 Titan SE 4X4 King Cab Long Bed and it was a nightmare. Yetti gave me advice and the area's he had problems with, which of course, were none of the problems I had. I started Saturday morning at 11 and finished about 7 that night. It took my another 3 hours on Sunday to finish the front, then I started working on the rear. I had to finish the rest on Monday afternoon which took me about 2 more hours. Here are the issue's I had:

1. I had to do some serious grinding to get the front cross member to fit. Not only that the bolt holes would not line up. Even though the holes are slotted the cross member was to far to the right (passenger side) for me to get the bolt thru. So I had to widen the slot about an 1/8".

2. I had no problems getting my hubs out of the stock knuckles but putting them back in was another story. The first one I used the bolts by tightening them in a circle to press the hub into the new knuckle. The other one would not work that way and I was afraid that I might cross thread the bolt so I had to improvise. I used the weight of the truck and jacked up the knuckle under the new cross member to press in the hub the rest of the way.

3. I had a hell of a time getting the upper ball joint attached to the knuckle. I couldn't simply jack the control arm to raise the knuckle to the upper ball joint because all it did was raise the truck. The strut wouldn't compress. The only place that worked was jacking directly under the lower ball joint. The problem with that is it would press the knuckle up against the bucket, not to mention I had to use a pry bar to pull down on the upper control arm. A couple hours later I finally won.

4. The kicker bars that run from the back cross member to the cross member under the transfer case called for a 1/2" by 3 1/2" bolt but the parts list and what I got was 5/8" bolt. They gave me 5/8" bolt and 1/2" nuts. So that's one trip to the parts store.

5. The engineer that designed the shock setup needs to be shot. Getting to the passenger side upper shock bolt was a huge pain.

6. Jacking the back of the truck to put in 5" blocks turn out to be a bigger pain than I imagined. I had to go buy a hi-lift jack to make that happen.

7. I don't know if its because my truck is an 08 or not but all the tool sizes that the directions told me to use were not the same.

So here are the dimensions:

Pre-Lift: from ground to center of wheel well with factory wheels and tires
FRONT 37 1/4"
REAR 39"

Post-Lift: from ground to center of wheel well with factory wheels and tires
FRONT 44 1/2"
REAR 44"

So I have to assume with those numbers that the front will settle about an inch or so. I will post some pics Tuesday to get your opinions. One thing I also noticed is that it seems like the drive line has a lot more angle in it than I expected so I hope that doesn't become an issue.