Kenton C

Okay, being a guy on a tight budget and driving an f150 that doesn't see much besides the pavement, I'm curious if I can get away with something. I have an 07 F150 2wd. I have installed a 3" strut spacer up front with a 1.5" lift block in the back, resulting in an 1.5" rake (single cab life). I know my current UCA ball joint angles are pretty steep, so I was thinking about getting spindle spacers (http://www.accuratesuspensioncompone...9-7c38b9e873dc) to take stress off the ball joint and return it to as close to stock geometry as possible. After this, I would add 1" of lift to the front (slightly bringing back the problem of ball joint angles, but it's a pavement princess) to level it out. I know that the LCA doesn't get "stressed" as easily and I have no CV joints to blow. Is this feasible?

Garret

Very interested in this. Would like to confirm that it fits our 04-08 f150s 2wd

Summers22

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Wow, thats a pretty cool spacer, never seen that, but I am not 4x4. Seems to me there isnt a ton of stress there, just up and down movement.

Summers22

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Well they seem to work perfectly!

https://www.f150forum.com/f38/has-an...329434/index2/

Kenton C

Yea, I'm just curious if I'd be able to get up another 1" of lift in there. I'm getting some 315/70/17 for dirt cheap and want to do as little cutting as possible

Summers22

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How will you get another inch?

Kenton C

Put a thin 1" (so actually .5") spacer on the existing 3" (actually 1.5") one

Kenton C

It does. you can see on their website

Kenton C

Well I decided to be a risk taker and have ordered the parts. I have the two spindle spacers and I ordered four .5" spacers. I did this because I know that the three upper strut bolts do not have a lot of thread (whether it be on the factory strut or on the existing spacer's bolts). So instead of running on little thread with a 1" spacer on each side, I plan on putting one .5" spacer beneath my existent 3" spacer and one .5" spacer on top (on each side). This should give me 4" of lift. I will be able to pull this off without completely destroying my ball joint because of the spindle spacer giving me a "lifted" knuckle. Okay, now follow this. The UCA is attached to the body and the knuckle. That's it. So if I want to keep my existing angles between them (particularly at the ball joint), the two pieces have to be raised equally. If I want to alleviate stress on the joint (which is preferable because I'm running a >2.5" spacer), the lift on the knuckle has to be greater than that on the rest of the truck. These spindle spacers look to be around 1.5" (maybe a little more) tall. I'd be adding 1" lift to the truck. So this should put me at angles similar to those running the "safe" 2.5" spacers. I can see some camber issues coming up with the spindle spacers and the additional lift, but I have a year of free alignments from NTB, so I'm not too worried. Can anyone weigh on on this?

Summers22

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I would NEVER stack spacers....you are wanting to layer your spacers .5"/3"/.5"??? Wow, no way in a millions years I would do that. Seems very unsafe.