Tires scrub even with lift! Help plz

[jESse]

get a different front bumper that gives you more clearance or drop a tire size. those tires look about shot anyways

 

[Frankie21]

Yea it's about time for a new set of tires, but i would prefer to stay at 36.
Do you have a bumper in specific that you recommend?

 

[yates ™]

Smaller tires, bigger lift, or see if you can get another inch out of the torsion bars but becareful of your angles.

 

[01Konvict]

keys lift the front end more, your rubbing looks like it is from tire width. What is the offset of the rim (example 18x9 +18mm offset)? Give me rim and tire details. I think the tires will work with lift keys. Take your stock keys out and replace with lift keys and you can get 2" lift in the front.

 

[yates ™]

keys lift the front end more, your rubbing looks like it is from tire width. What is the offset of the rim (example 18x9 +18mm offset)? Give me rim and tire details. I think the tires will work with lift keys. Take your stock keys out and replace with lift keys and you can get 2" lift in the front.

I knew someone would chime in with more/better info then I can give

 

[Frankie21]

keys lift the front end more, your rubbing looks like it is from tire width. What is the offset of the rim (example 18x9 +18mm offset)? Give me rim and tire details. I think the tires will work with lift keys. Take your stock keys out and replace with lift keys and you can get 2" lift in the front.

Sorry for being a newb but how exactly do i figure out the offset of the rim?
Im trying to learn something new haha

 

[yates ™]

It should be stamped on the back of the wheel

 

[Frankie21]

http://bit.ly/LCkzhR
Those are the rims that are on it. The tires are Supper Swampers and they say the specified rim size is 17x10 but the rim says its 17x9

 

[yates ™]

That link shows them at -12mm offset

 

[Frankie21]

Yeap, so what does that mean for me? Haha

 

[yates ™]

You could get wheels that do not have as negative of an offset.

I am not sure what you want us to tell you but here are your options...
New front bumper, similar to this

Smaller tires
More lift in the front
Wheels with less negative offset (would still probably need smaller tires)

Those are the only options and there are no more.

 

[Frankie21]

I really want to try and keep this tire and wheel combo, so lets say i just want to try and get more lift in the front. How do i do this? The lift keys? How are those different from the stock keys?
And in the picture i attached it seems like the bolt for the torsion bars is as far as it goes isn't it? Is that bad?
And that's how my shocks look when its just parked on a level surface, is that how they should be or do i need new ones?

 

[yates ™]

IDK know much about lifting with keys but different keys can achieve different lifts with different vehicles, make sense? Take better pics of the angles of CV and control arms because in that 3rd pic it almost looks like you have a pretty extreme CA angle already.

 

[Frankie21]

Yea that makes sense, so id basically be putting keys from another vehicle that is meant to have more lift in the front right?
Here are some better pic

 

[yates ™]

What lift do you have? To me you look maxed out already. Maybe look into 2" lift spindles and decrank the bars to the tune of an inch thus still leaving you an inch higher then now Someone with more lift experience on these needs to look at these.

 

[Frankie21]

It has a 6" Superlift suspension lift.
Iv'e read some stuff about lift spindles but not much, what is their purpose?
This is making it sound like my Tahoe has serious issues. Could you get someone more specialized to take a look? You are TYF famous after all haha.

 

[yates ™]

Essentially a lift spindle will move your wheel farther down on the spindle.

Not the correct spindles for your Tahoe but shows the difference between stock and lift spindle.

 

[Frankie21]

Cool deal. Thanks for all the help man. I really appreciate it considering i had a alot of questions and am i newb.
But i have one more question.
Could you link me to some lift spindles specifically for my 01 Z71 Tahoe? And would it matter if they were 2 or 3 inches?

 

[yates ™]

I am not positive on that but basically they will allow you decrank your Tbars so at worst case if you buy the 3" you will end up with an extra 1" (give or take) of lift on the front.
You would just have to search for them as I am not sure where is the best place to buy them.

 

[Frankie21]

So buy the 3' spindles, decrank the torsion bars an inch and ill sit 1" higher than now. Easy enough
Do you know of a thread or place that shows you how to install spindles?