Mako1801

First of all, GO COWBOYS!!

As for the leveling kit, well thats a long painful story. I got it for free from my brother-in-laws' brother, who took it off his 05 F150 when he put on his 6 inch lift. I believe his truck is an FX4 and the leveling kit was on his truck when he bought it. Thats the good part.

The painful part was me installing it. The actual spacer is black rubbery poly-something with 3 slots cut in it for the bolts to pass through. Even came with new longer bolts. So after about an hour getting my truck ready and pulling my struts off I was thinking it was going pretty well. It was then that I realized I was going to have to thake the strut apart to replace the factory bolts with the new longer bolts that would fit through the spacers.

Was able to find a set of coil-spring compressors for rent (thanks Autozone). Got it compressed and taken apart and then couldn't get the factory bolts out. After a good bit of time trying, I decided to go with plan "C" or "D" or whatever it was at this point. Ended up drilling some new holes in the spacer and the top of the strut bracket. Then I realized I wouldn't be able to tighten it all down after the strut was put back together, because the bolt would just spin as I would not be able to hold the backside of it. Off to lowe's.. Got some thin nuts that I counter-sunk in the top of the spacer to hold the bolt tight.

After about 8 hours on this project I finally got it all back together. All this because I got it for free...what a deal!!! After the alignment it ended up being just under a 2 1/2 inch lift. If I had to do it over I would have spent the 70 or 80 bucks and got a HBS 2 1/2 inch kit. I can laugh at it now, but at the time I was not having much fun.

AZFX4

^ That sucks man...

lsucrf250

Ya u right but too bad that most people these days dont even know what the word offroad means!!! Arent 6 inch lifts and 35s for the street haha.. NOT. Its too bad even ford dealers build big lifted trucks that wont ever see a piece of dirt. If I only had the money my truck would be so big and so muddy!!!

AZFX4

My trucks stock height except leveling kit and gets muddy when it rains.. real muddy actually.

J.Wal

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GREAT lookin truck bro!

squirrelyyy

beautiful truck what a difference just tires can make

big cube 426

truck looks sweet, i guess all the aggravation was worth it.

TxOutlaw

So it's a 2.5? Looks killer man! I wish they Nitto had a 35x11.50 in an 18... They show a 295/70/18 on their site, but no one carries the size.. Closest thing I can find is a BFG 305/65/18

_Flea_

Have you checked Discount Tire?

TxOutlaw

Dood... I swear they did not have them up last week or so!! LoL... Now they do...