Break the lift into stages or do all at once?

Saved a little over half way to getting my complete lift. This includes:

Step 1:
- Front and rear springs and shocks
- Bump stops
- Poly bushings
- ECGS bearing
- Break line extension
- UCA's

Step 2"
- 5.29 re-gear
- 35's
- Cab mount chop
- Whatever other trimming and hammering I'll need to do.

Question is, I don't have a shop to do the re-gear at, which means the lead time for that may get pushed out.

Understanding "buy once, cry once", I can see benefit to knocking everything out in one go. However, camping season is on the horizon and I'm thinking that until I find a good shop and a time to take the truck in for the re-gear, maybe it makes enough sense to go with Step 1, and then get to Step 2 later on.

Breaking the steps apart will mean more labor. But, like how much are we talking? Any other reasons to truly wait to do everything at once?

Also if I'm missing anything from my list, let me know.

Thanks!

 

Pizza and beers for labor. Gets few buddies together and learn a few things.

 

Do it all at once, What state are you in?

 

And you can fill an entire garage with tools with all the money you save on labor!

 

That and the knowledge is pretty cool too..

My setup

Helped a buddy last night put in a set of coilovers

 

No way am I doing a re gear myself lol.

But I'm in Sacramento if anyone wants to help with the other stuff.

 

The only common denominator with both steps is taking off the wheels... so you’ll save that much in labor if you did both steps at once.

 

Maybe reconsider the cmc to a relocate instead. Look into hammer hangers.

 

I've heard hammer hangers can make ride quality in the rear considerably better- is there a recommended brand to go with?

Also, as far as a CMC chop vs. relocate. I haven't heard about many people doing a relocate. Any reasons why, other than it might buy some more durability?

 

I forgot which brand but the one I got goes by hammer hangers. The other manufacturer goes by a different name. I had everything installed at once so I don’t know what helped or what made a difference.

I went straight to relocate instead of cmc. My reasoning? “buy once, cry once”. However, I didn’t go 35 and went with 34 instead. I got alpine design but to rebuy again I’d buy lil b’s. They provide a a gusset plate which would give three contact points onto the frame. Alpine only has two contact pionts.

 

Nice, I appreciate the intel.

 

I personally had ECGS "built" differentials sent to my local shop when I had them installed. The ECGS bushing was already in there. It was after that, I took my suspension and tires to Mark in Fremont. See his post here. He does excellent work.


In my opinion:
Have a local shop install built ECGS 3rd members first, so you don't have to remove the suspension twice.
Leave it with Mark for a couple of days to do the CMC and suspension install. He will take it for alignment. Rims and Tires should be ready to go too. Mark can adjust the coilovers to get the rake right before taking it in for alignment. He can also do the Hammer Hangers.