Hey,

2010 F150 4x4 5.4 motor lifted. CV boot keeps tearing. Truck already lifted when I bought it. Going to have to replace both side. Mechanic said lift too high for CV angle causing boot to tear. Said I needed to remove front loft by about 1/2 inch.

Can a longer CV axle be bought or am I looking to change lift? Suggestions on how to relieve stress on Axles?

Added some pics for reference.

Thanks.

 

That's one hell of a leveling puck the previous owner threw under that spring tower. Wouldn't be surprised at all if there are two pucks stacked on top of each other under there.

No, you cannot fix this problem with longer CV axles. You will have to reduce the amount of level. If my assumptions are correct, there's two pucks jammed up in each spring tower. Remove one of them. If it's a single puck, and you still want some level, throw away what's in there and have 2" or so leveling pucks installed. This is the economical way to handle this problem.

If you want a proper lift on that truck, it will cost you a LOT more than the aforementioned options...

 

To clarify: You do not have a lift, you have a level. A lift would not have this problem at this height or even higher.

 

You do realize even putting in longer front axles is not going to change their angle so it would still be tearing the boots. So it is remove the front pucks for something smaller or drop the front differential down like a proper lift would do.

 

Holy **** who owned your truck before?

 

Someone that likes giant fender flares and skateboard wheels it seems.

 

Yeah, the bedside bars, flares, bad wheels, chrome mirror caps, chrome door handle caps, window vents, bad bad level...somebody needs to take away that guy's JCWhitney catalog.

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.
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