Kodiak450

The way I see it too with lowering carton, is it would defeat having lift on truck. You would still get hung up if you decided to stack a deep pile. Then during off season, if you were a off road person, the frame would be in your way. Unless it was made so that it coukld be removable and easy to take off.

I would love to see snow plows with powerful hydraulics so that you could lift the truck up like a loader can.

Like from the movie "My cousin Vinny".. "You got mud in your tires".

Leveling kit is no a body lift, right? You know you can crank torsion bars to make your truck more level. I've seen 285 tires on my gen truck, and though they look beefy, the truck really didn't look unlevel to me.

There's two kinds of lifts that I know of that people use on their trucks, a body lift which raises the body from the frame, thus some lines or wires to shorten in length due to the body being lifted. Then there is a full lift which lifts from axels, which raises the frame upwards where carton mount gets mounted. I've never ever seen a lifted truck that has a plow on it, I've seen body lifts on a Dodge truck with a plow though. I would imagine if you modified the ram lift on the pump, used a bigger chain that supports the blade it might perform normally. But you would have to have the ram lift specifically made, cause far as I know they all are available in one size. When plowing, you need the blade to have full contact with the ground and also have the room for it to travel over obstacles. It's sort of like when attempting to plow down an incline as your rear end is on level ground, and the front is now on incline. Sometimes depending on incline, the blade does not come into full contact with the ground. The blade can also aid in slowing you down in case of a slide. I've plowed some real dangerous steep driveways, one in particular is an account I currently have had for the last 5 years. It is so dangerous that at just before the top where it levels off, you can be on ice and the truck will slide backwards down the driveway. I always depend on the blade as it is down when going backwards and am giving the truck alot of gas in 4wd to stop the backwards momentum in case I start sliding. It's hard to sit here and describe the change of steepness in the grade, but if I'm parked on the steepest part of the hill, getting into my truck feels like it increased by 4'. If i ever come across a lifted truck with a plow on it, I'll be sure to tell you about it. And hopefully have the time to take a good look at it.

Snow plows are limited in travel and you need the down force to push and scrap up the snow. Perhaps if the plow carton was fabbed to sit lower say at stock height, it would work. But then you would run into problems of it being fabbed to sit lower and not have advantage of carton mounted on frame for full strength. I think it would also look kinda weird seeing a lifted truck with a fabbed plow carton sitting lower, also would make the lifted truck useless for clearence issues when off roading.

All I can say is you get what you pay for. Those clips sound horrible, sorta reminds me of an economy car with a over sized shiny coffee can exahust on it. If you want a decent exhaust that will last you the life of the vehicle, go with Gibson, or a Maganaflow, or another reputable after market exhaust. A Gibson exahust has same size bends unlike the cheaper exhausts you see out there. You also want to go with stainless steal, just like your OEM muffler, this way it will not rot out after 4 years..

I have some video clips of my truck on my signature you can view with a SS Gibson dual Extreme. The truck sounds real mean, i paid $630 for the stainless steal system which I highly recommend.