Hey guys. I bought a 2001 F150 about a month ago. it has 109,xxx on it and i love it. its my first truck im 17. I have been reading about cranking the t bars. i asked one of my friends about it and he said not to do it because it would mess up the suspension of the truck... is it that bad or is it only bad if they are cranked all the way. thanks i just want to make the truck sit level.

 

they say it puts more stress on the components, ball joints, etc.. but what do i know i have a 2wd lol.. GL

 

It will put more stress on the components but plenty of people have done it here and as long as you don't max it out you'll be fine. Don't listen to friends what do they know.

 

i wont need to put new shocks or anything on the truck? Things on the truck wont start breaking?

 

don't need new shocks, just crank them until the truck sits level, get an alignment and you'll be fine. it will add wear to your front end but nothing significant. people run em cranked all the way for years with no problem

 

Puts stress on the front end and front drive components plus wears the tires. You may or may not get it to align correctly. I wouldn't, but a lot of people do without reported problems. I'd get a leveling kit. T bars weren't designed to level. Just my $.02.

 

"Leveling kits" are just new torsion keys. Which are way worse then cranking the stock bars. Those are for the purpose of mounting heavy weight on the front end ie: steel bumper/ plow, to thn have the truck return to stock height with the weight on.

 

Crank your torsion bars and go on with your life! If you search this, you'll find about 10 of these threads in the past week.

Yes anything you do to your truck suspension/performance wise can/will cause something to go bad, break, blow up ect ect when you change how the truck came off the assembly line. But that's why we mod it and change it up to make them our own. Go and crank your t-bars and make your truck level.

 

Not saying it will happen.... But...
I read a thread one time where a guy cranked his t-bars and he kept breaking cv half shafts.
Under normal conditions the cv's are not at an extreme angle therefore they can handle the stress of applying force to the wheels while turning the tires. If you crank your t-bars to an angle of 30 degrees (not an exact figure just using a nice round number) now the cv shaft is stressed when running straight, now you add the stress of turning the tires... Stuff might start to break. I would worry more about cv's than ball joints.
My .02 cents.

 

I asked the shop that did my lift and they told me the same thing. And that was while they were installing the lift, so they weren't just trying to get me to spend money over cranking the bars.