What did you do TO your F-150 today? 🙋🏻‍♂️

[currybob]

Not yet. I may try over the 4th weekend and see how I like it. I would like to get some new U bolts and nuts though as I would rather replace vs reuse (cause I’m anal).

Here is the torque and sequence if anyone needs it.

Well I went to work on my truck this afternoon and removed the metal spacers. I don't believe the juice is worth the squeeze though. It only lowered the rear to 39.5 inches. I believe it was just a hair over 40" before I removed it. Front is 37.75 inches, so it is still 2 inches higher. The spacer is a hair over 1 inch thick, don't know why it didn't lower if the full inch unless the shock is keeping it the 1/2 inch higher.

I don't want to raise the front 2 inches, so guess I'm just going to leave it like its. The

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[NiftyF150]

Received my Husky wheel well liners yesterday and put them on tonight. Holy moly do they have some coverage! I went with the Husky’s because all of the folks here in the forums swore they were better than OEM but they have so much coverage that I’ll be impressed if I don’t get any contact with the leaf springs and shock body. I’ll post pictures. Please disregard how filthy the truck is right now.

 

[Zyvin]

Well I went to work on my truck this afternoon and removed the metal spacers. I don't believe the juice is worth the squeeze though. It only lowered the rear to 39.5 inches. I believe it was just a hair over 40" before I removed it. Front is 37.75 inches, so it is still 2 inches higher. The spacer is a hair over 1 inch thick, don't know why it didn't lower if the full inch unless the shock is keeping it the 1/2 inch higher.

I don't want to raise the front 2 inches, so guess I'm just going to leave it like its. The

Well that is surprising, I thought it would go a bit lower. I would give it a little time to see if it settles any after the jacking etc. I was hoping for at least an inch. Good info though, thanks.

 

[satchamo]

Put the ReadyLift 2” level on my KR PB and BFG KO2s in 285/65/20

I love this combo. Not overdone and practical. Think I’m going the same route except probably general grabbers instead since I can get a discount.

 

[Hudnut]

I thinking real serious about doing this, is the spacer glued in or do you just push it out after the bolts a loosened?

it's just a metal block that sandwiches between the spring and axel

 

[Roger1108]

Well I went to work on my truck this afternoon and removed the metal spacers. I don't believe the juice is worth the squeeze though. It only lowered the rear to 39.5 inches. I believe it was just a hair over 40" before I removed it. Front is 37.75 inches, so it is still 2 inches higher. The spacer is a hair over 1 inch thick, don't know why it didn't lower if the full inch unless the shock is keeping it the 1/2 inch higher.

I don't want to raise the front 2 inches, so guess I'm just going to leave it like its. The

HI Bob, did you drive the truck around? Let everything settled in to place. Not sure that the shock would hold it 1/2" higher less the 1 " block remove?

 

[currybob]

HI Bob, did you drive the truck around? Let everything settled in to place. Not sure that the shock would hold it 1/2" higher less the 1 " block remove?

You were right, I had drove to town and did not re-measure when I got back.

After reading you post I decided to go check it. It does now measure 39 inches now, so it did settle out more. So you do get a hair over 1 inch by removing the spacers.

 

[Zyvin]

You were right, I had drove to town and did not re-measure when I got back.

After reading you post I decided to go check it. It does now measure 39 inches now, so it did settle out more. So you do get a hair over 1 inch by removing the spacers.

Should look about perfect with the boat hooked up.

 

[currybob]

Should look about perfect with the boat hooked up.

Yep

 

[Zyvin]

I did mine today as well. It's raining so I will add a picture, and get more measurements after driving a bit. Here are the measurements as of right now:
Before: Front 37.75 inches
Rear 40.75 inches
After: Front same
Rear 39.5 inches.

So mine came down 1.25 inches in the back, which about what I wanted. Have yet to hook up the Pontoon, so hopefully I will not be putting them back in, lol.

Some notes:
I marked my headlights on the garage wall and they were the same afterwards, so the auto-leveling must have done its job. Although, they probably wouldn't have been off much.

I do not have the max tow. I have the two leaf spring with tow package and tow tech. Thinking maybe that's why my and CurryBob's before measurements were probably a little different.

 

[Dadofjax]

I got to drive mine for the first time in 2 weeks. Been at the dealer because the dealer and Ford can't figure out my Pre-Collision assist warning that has happened over a 100x since Ive owned the truck.

They ordered a new front camera but those are back ordered until end of August.

Just need to keep it out of the sun and the alarm wont come on...

 

[Zyvin]

I got to drive mine for the first time in 2 weeks. Been at the dealer because the dealer and Ford can't figure out my Pre-Collision assist warning that has happened over a 100x since Ive owned the truck.

They ordered a new front camera but those are back ordered until end of August.

Just need to keep it out of the sun and the alarm wont come on...

Hey, don’t know if this will help you, but I had that same message about a 1000 times, so I fixed it myself. The dealer appt was 3 weeks out and that was just for them to not know what to do either.

You may have a totally different problem but those camera cables really don’t like tight bends.

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/sensor-faults-on-first-drive.1147/post-55850

 

[Roger1108]

I did mine today as well. It's raining so I will add a picture, and get more measurements after driving a bit. Here are the measurements as of right now:
Before: Front 37.75 inches
Rear 40.75 inches
After: Front same
Rear 39.5 inches.

So mine came down 1.25 inches in the back, which about what I wanted. Have yet to hook up the Pontoon, so hopefully I will not be putting them back in, lol.

Some notes:
I marked my headlights on the garage wall and they were the same afterwards, so the auto-leveling must have done its job. Although, they probably wouldn't have been off much.

I do not have the max tow. I have the two leaf spring with tow package and tow tech. Thinking maybe that's why my and CurryBob's before measurements were probably a little different.

SWEET LOOKING TRUCK, I am going to do the same to mine, my truck on the railroad to the west coast as we speak, another 18 days and I activated the Ford pass too to see if I can track it?
Can you tell me the width of your rims? 8.5 wide? on the 20s

 

[Bocephus]

SWEET LOOKING TRUCK, I am going to do the same to mine, my truck on the railroad to the west coast as we speak, another 18 days and I activated the Ford pass too to see if I can track it?
Can you tell me the width of your rims? 8.5 wide? on the 20s

You’ll need the truck to activate Ford Pass.

 

[Zyvin]

yes, they are 8.5 on the sport 20 inch rims. Someone on here posted the specs somewhere, but it was 8.5 wide and I believe +44 offset.

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