Hey guys, I recently purchased a 2" leveling kit and 295/70/17 Nitto Trail Grapplers to replace my stock tires on my 2011 XLT Scab Ecoboost 4x4. I am going to install the leveling kit myself today and have called around to all of the big name tire shops without being able to find much applicable information.

My question to these shops was... Are you guys able to do alignments on 2011 F-150's with a 2" level, 33.3" tires, and EPAS? Most of them said no, we won't touch those, we are too scared, no specs available, bla bla bla... Finally found one who said that they can do the alignment but it may require a EPAS control module reset, and that it may have to be done at the dealership. Does this sound right? And they also said that the specs they have will only be for the stock ride height and tire size, and they are not even sure if they have the specs for the 2011's.

Here are my questions:

1) What should my goals be here when I am trying to align the truck properly?

2) Do I need to have them try to return it as close to possible to stock specs? If so, does anyone here happen to know what those specs are for the 2011 F-150 4x4's?

3) Do they need to disconnect the battery when performing the alignment?

For those of you with a 2011 and a leveling kit, how did your alignments go? Did they just throw it on the machine and plug in the 2010 numbers? Or did they have 2011 specs? I tried calling the stealerships around me, but they are all so damn clueless when it comes to actually helping customers out...

Thanks in advance for the guidance guys! I just want to make sure I am no starting out my new truck ownership by damaging suspension/steering components and wearing out new tires unevenly in 10,000 miles.

 

They have to account for the 2" level which changes the geometry but other than that they shouldn't have problems. Many trucks come with 33's and Electromic steering is getting more and more popular.

They just unhooked my battery, and used stock specs with the small changed accounted for the 2" level

 

On my 2010 (cant imagine they changed frames in '11) there is no camber caster adjustment so all they can do is adjust toe anyway. In other words, there really are no specs to worry about, just set the toe and what you see is what you get and with a level it will not be perfect but it will be "ok".

 

I took mine to my dealer after leveling and they aligned it with no problem.

 

Great thanks so much guys! Appreciate the help. So just ask them to adjust the toe and forget about camber/caster?

 

I used bilstien shocks for my lift approx 2" also, but kept stock tires. Alignment shop had no problems with the truck. Attached is a pdf of the alignment specs used on my truck. It rides just fine. looks like toe was about the only thing that changed.

 

I had to install 4 alignment cams in the front and rear of each of the lower a-arms to get enough movement to realign my truck with the 2'' lift. They install at the pivot point of the a-arm at the frame in place of the factory bolts and sleeves. Below is a picture of one of them.