TT/Shackles & 3" PA body kit: Do I need to align?

[Jorge Dominguez]

Colleagues, a mechanic is doing the torsion twist, shackles, and 3" body kit for my 2001 ST. My question is, do I have to do an alignment right after or it is only if needed?



Thanks in advance, JD.

 

[Jon T]

Usually after doing any work with the torsion bars an alignment should be performed. I would recommend it, especially if you want to keep your tires in good shape.

 

[Johnny O]

TT will throw off the camber and toe-in a little so you should get it aligned. The shop I go to only charged me $10 over a regular alignment to turn the torsion bars up.

 

[WXMotorSports DecalsPartsAccs]

Simply, yes you sure will need one.

 

[Adam Yee]

I know body lift kits are fairly inexpensive.. i was thinking about doing this modification to my trac aswell after doing a TT/Shackle lift.



My question to you is how much is the labor to have a bodylift kit installed?

 

[Jorge Dominguez]

Thank you all for the responses.



Adam, I bought the parts (shackles and body lift kit) and with a torsion twist as well my mechanic is charging me $400. I don't think it is bad.

 

[Dallas Starr]

my 3" lift at a shop cost 900.00 CDN

 

[Adam Yee]

Big D, was that including the kit itself? any issues with bumper brackets?

 

[Jorge Dominguez]

Adam, the bumper brackets that came with the kit do not match the 2001 ST, so my mechanic hasn't been able to finish my truck. I called my vendor and they are going to ship me the correct ones (hopefully).

 

[Matt Lane]

JD, that is a good price. Place around me wanted $550 plus tax to install my kit, plus I had to buy it from them which was about $100 more than what I ended up paying for it. So I went for it and did it myself with some help from a friend. Took us every bit of 20+ hours, but saved me over $600 in the long run.