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Lifting A Truck Essay

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When we think of the word big trucks you think of monster trucks first but it actually can also mean the big tall lift of a truck and that is how monster trucks came to be. Lifting a vehicle over the legal height is not allowed on the streets because of how big the vehicle is when modified and can run the risk of running people off the road or over their car. When lifting a vehicle started out it was for the everyday man or woman who was interested in mudding there vehicle to the max and now it has became much more popular because people love the thrill of riding higher than everyone else and can still mud in their everyday driver. The method of lifting a vehicle was first used by the military and when the wars were over …show more content…

The lifts were starting to go into the favor of the law again and when it did the changes were starting to make people upset and tired of all the law changes. In Illinois you can't lift the body from the chassis more than 3 inches. In terms of bumper height, a GVWR(gross vehicle weight rating) of 4,500 pounds or less and your front bumper can't go higher than 24 inches. GVWRs between 4,501 and 7,500 pounds determine the maximum height of 27 inches at the front and 29 inches at the rear. Finally, if your truck is between 7,501 and 9,000 pounds, the allowable alteration is a maximum height of 28 inches in front and 30 inches in back. The laws of lifting were made to help keep the safety of the road and not to make everybody run off the road because of a big lifted truck heading down the road. When the lift wasn’t enough the tires became the next big thing and the tries acted as a lift kit as well. The big tires added as much as a three inch lift if you ordered big tires and some were just adding only one inch but with the big tires you could lift your truck without installing a bigger lift

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