One of my favorite parts about working for the used car department at the dealership... all the free stuff that people leave in their cars

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That must have been so cool to preorder one of these brand new 1st year

Thanks! They barely fit probably the biggest I could have gone on this lift

Thank you

Follow up video coming soon taking the element up to Mt. Baker this weekend and i will be sure to go over all the before and after measurements

The axles seem to be doing fine, the boots haven't torn or anything but even i they do I'm not worried about it. And the body went up 6" and the running gear went down 3" so the axle angle is basically the same as a 3" lift. Plus the taller tires pushes the outer axle joint up even more helping to correct the axle angle.

Hey can you send me some info on the meet? I for sure want to go

Haha that would be sick but a lot of work probably going to turbo it in the future, it will go through axles im sure of it but as long as they break while im up on the mountain it wont bother me, and mpg went way down probably like 15 now but i don't commute in it so its not too bad to deal with.

At least you won’t need to modulate the accelerator pedal. Just leave it floored all the time. No worry about speeding tickets either.

Ill send the info on that tomorrow I still have the box at my shop. I had our radio vendor install it for me no regrets its an amazing unit.

Its a manual trans so wont do any harm basically like changing the final drive in a sense by going with a bigger tire. Now doing this to an auto not sure how happy the trans would be.

What about a 2" lift on a Subaru Tribeca slightly smaller tires? Automatic.. what do you think? ​@@builtandraised

​​@@pikkonnanu63662 " lift will be just fine, not sure why you would want smaller tires but it wont hurt anything. Make sure the alignment is good though because subaru gearbox's dont like mismatched or uneven thread depths.

Right on thats awesome one of my favorite vehicles of all time

Probably like 22 before average and 15ish now

@@builtandraised Wow, that’s good to know for anyone considering modifications to this extreme. I think military hummers do about 15 but they’re diesel

It was basicaly the same thing as their kit but cost me $500 instead of $1700. Strut spacers, 3" spacers for front and rear subframe, trailing arms, and driveshaft. Extended bolts for everything and drops down brackets for o2 sensors and brake lines/cables. Everything i used was made in usa and high quality. Spacers were rated to something like 17000 psi and the bolts were all grade 10.9 custom made in the usa ordered from a local bolt supplier. The HRG kit is definetly easier as everything is all in one kit versus having to source everything from different places. All in all after the lift kit pieces, wheels, and wheel spacers i was in the lift job about $900 but i also didnt pay for tires as they were gifted to me.

@@builtandraised actually doesn't look like they offer it anymore. Something different was the strut spacers they used. It was a combo of the puck on top and a new bracket that attached to the lower strut.

​@@dquangti know they now have a 6" lift 1st gen crv i want to use...pretty sure it comes with extended spindles.

@@builtandraised wonder why they don't have the element 6" anymore

​@@dquangt i dont either it looked like a good kit and they had it on their website in november when i started this job so they took it down recently

Thanks for your comment and concern... but you are wrong. I have been a professional mechanic for about 13 years now. And I did work at a lifted truck shop for a couple years a while back. Every component I used was all high grade american made parts including the bolts. Everything torqued to spec. Also, not the first element to be lifted like this been done plenty of times, HRG sold a kit identical to this for a while. Put about 2000 miles on the vehicle since the lift, put it back on the rack and nothing came loose or broke, alignment hasn't changed at all, and it drives good. And anybody who decides to modify their own personal vehicle is liable for themselves that goes without saying.

@@builtandraised 1 Well being a mechanic doesn’t make you qualified to know engineering. 2 An off-road shop that installs parts is different from a shop that builds off-road vehicles. 3 because someone sold something before doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Most likely why they don’t sell it anymore. This is where we learn something. Distributed loads are forces which are spread out over a length, area, or volume. Most connections on a vehicle are mechanic. The mechanical connections play a connect function between one element and each other. They limit the possibility of movement of the first element than the latter, thus preventing the relative displacement of two adjacent elements. In Conclusion your spacers are way too small. They should be equal to the surface they are connected to. So no, you’re wrong.

The 3 inch subframe drop helps a lot with the premature wear nothing is at too crazy of an angle. And its a toy for me and I dont use it very often so if something breaks not too worried ill just fix it. Axles, control arm bushings, trailing arm bushings... all easy stuff to fix