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Old Apr 27, 2016 | 03:02 PM
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Throw some 4wd lower control arms on my 2wd, get some struts from a 04-08 f150 (or aftermarket) drill some mounting holes through the upper coil bucket and rock those instead of the coil spring set up? Or have I had 2 to many
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Old Apr 27, 2016 | 06:15 PM
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How much cash do you have? Anything can be done with enough jingle lol.

Long story short, I don't think you can use a 4x4 lower control arm on a 2wd because a 4x4 uses torsion bars whereas a 2wd uses a coil spring.
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Old Apr 27, 2016 | 08:29 PM
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How much cash do you have? Anything can be done with enough jingle lol.

Long story short, I don't think you can use a 4x4 lower control arm on a 2wd because a 4x4 uses torsion bars whereas a 2wd uses a coil spring.
Never enough with my ideas it seems lol, the reason for the 4x4 arm is that is uses the same mount for the bottom of the 04-08 f150 struts, so it seems relatively easy to moddify the coil bucket to accept the top (drilling 3 holes and bracing?)
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Old Apr 27, 2016 | 10:02 PM
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No the 4wd dowsnt use the same mount as the 04-08. Its completely different.
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