What to do for bumper laws?

[polaris21]

Ill be picking up a 87 chevy k10 that is lifted 9 in and has 36 on it. But i just read the laws for illinois, and the front bumper cant be higher thaan 27 in and the back cant be higher than 30 in. there is no way im lowering it. Im actually makeing it bigger. so what do you guys/girls do to keep the cops off of you of your lifted rigs?

[6772owner]

Im in Colorado, but my bro had an 85' K10 with 9" lift (6" suspension/3" body) and 40's and he never had any trouble here. He did make a large (10" tall) C-channel front bumper that hung down a little further than stock, but had a factory rear bumper. Maybe you could fab up some bumpers that hang down enough to be legal?? Otherwise Im not really sure what else you could do. Sorry if this doesnt help much.

[Tater]

Where in NW Illinois do you live?I'm in the Elgin area and I know of alot of trucks with 10" and 12" lifts with 44's and they don't get bothered.I don't think it's enforced much

[polaris21]

I live by freeport Illinois. I nowgoing to take my chance on running it like it is for now, but when i lift it for 44 im going to have to make bumpers to make it look halfway legal. Its not going to be a daily driver anyhow, so i hope ill be fine. if not ill try the lower bumpers.

[LONGHAIR]

Here in Ohio, when the laws were first written and enforced, you could not modify/lower the bumpers at all. Any modification resulted in measurements being made from the frame itself....This all took place around '89-'90? IIRC
The laws have either been changed in the last few years, or the enforcement has gotten very lax, because trucks have been going up. Heck even some of these "donks" are higher than a truck would have been allowed, back in the day.

[special-K]

Do what you want,but realize when you run outside the law you never know when your day will be ruined by a cop deciding to enforce the law.The bigger the tire/higher the truck,the more likely that will happen.Here in Maryland we go with K/30s because the law pertains to trucks under 10,000# GVW.That`s were one tons start and 3/4 tons stop.

[LONGHAIR]

It's the same thing here Tim, the over 10K GVW is exempt. I never did quite understand this "loophole" though? The law is supposed to be about safety....so why is a bigger/heavier truck allowed to be "what is considered unsafe for others"?

[special-K]

Because over 10,000 are real work trucks and very few are pickup trucks.Beds come in all configurations and trucks vary in design according to the purpose of their build.Figure Oshkosh snow plows are in that group as well as any registered piece of equipment that is hardly a truck.at least that`s what I figure.Look at a 1t dump,no rear bumper at all.4wd guys made it a loop hole.Here in Maryland that`s where the emissions laws dropped off,too,as well as inspections.so,these are laws for personal vehicles,I guess.What do you think?That`s always been my take on it.Maybe the DMV knows a truck needs one ton axles to run such big tires.

[409sbc pwr]

i live in a small town and it seams like all the cops here love to pick on lifted trucks there is no way around it i have 6 inches of lift and 35s on a 1/2 ton and thats too tall and i plan on going bigger there is really no way to make bumpers legal that look good. i have learned the hard way to many times and the only way to keep your nose clean is not have too loud of exhaust and drive like a granny most of the time they pull u over for something else then nail ya with the overheigtht ticket!! good luck man