I heard they make a coil over front shock for the 4x4's I don't know if the entire era 97-03 4x4 non of them have coils, I put a set of coil overs in the rear, Please send the links where I can find. Much appricated.

Also, I want no lift, I want to keep it the stock hight.

 

Let me be the first to say........

What the hell are you talking about?!?!?

 

seems straight forward to me....

asking for coilover shocks up front.




And to answer ya OP, I have not seen an "off the shelf" kit for it. But it can be done (anything can be done). You would need to find proper measurements for what your looking for, and need to find the spring rates you need. Then just fab up mounts and your good. I would leave this to a custom suspension specialist. Find an off road CUSTOM shop (not a bolt on kit type shop. NOT 4 wheel parts). Or find a custom hotrod type shop (might be best bet, depending where your located). Go in and start asking questions. Custom would be the best way to go anyways, if you ask me.

here is a crazy custom truck. of course your not looking that type of performance, but still an idea:

http://offroad.automotive.com/44460/...ack/index.html

custom work at a fab shop, or a high performance long travel style kit would be what your looking for, if you ask me.

by the way.... where are ya located ? Might be able to steer ya towards a quality fab shop.

 

Coilovers such as King, Fox and FOA are used in place of coils, leaf springs, or torsion bars.

Our 97-04 4x4's are torsion bar font end. They do not need coilovers, unless you delete the torsion bars. Or you will have two sources of spring.

You say you added coilovers to the rear? did you delete the leaf springs and do a 4 link? If not then you need to do more research before you start doing this stuff.

but on your question yes they do make a kit that converts the front Torsion bar based IFS to a Coilover front end. But its a long travel kit that will give you lift. and its not bolt on.

 

No I understood that part. It just threw me because he said something about coilovers in the rear already eing installed.

May be my own stupidity interfering in the comprehension though.

 

no the guy probably just unbolted his shocks and installed the coilovers.. and left the leaf springs which means he has 2 sources of spring

 

No no no, your right thats is odd. I deal with custom suspension all day long, so I assumed he was going link suspension out back with coilovers. Guess I shouldn't go assuming huh ? :o

So, Jory, we need more info. WHat kind of fab skills you got ? What direction you taking this truck ? What kind of terrain ? WHY do you want coilovers ????

 

your trying to say coilovers suck ??? c'mon now Trimble, you know better then that. coilovers are TOP of the line type suspension. I just prefer the ease of air shocks !

 

No what im saying is if he installed coilovers to the front of a Torsion Bar front end he will have 2 sources of springs.

Just like what he did to the rear. I mean he doesnt want any lift so its hard for me to believe the guy deleted the leaf springs and 4 linked the rear. So IMO he has leaf springs and coilovers.

I will be runnin FOA coilovers on my truck eventually.

 

I know, just had to send some flak your way !


I think your right, maybe OP is confused on what coilovers are, or how to use them. If he would post back up, we could probably clear this up in a few minutes. Oh well, quitting time for me !

 

check out my build thread sometime.. i havent seen you post there yet.

link in sig

 

RockKrawler Suspensions used to make a coilover conversion/lift kit for the 97-03 4x4 F-150's as well as the GM 4x4's.

 

Holy Moly, I have never gotten soo much feed back from one thred soo fast. I am laughing reading all 11 post at once.


OK. I got a 2000 F150 4x4 XL supercab short bed, I redid my shocks this summer, I went with Moneo sensa trac coil overs I got from Napa, Moneo claims your bed payload goes up 500lbs by adding these coil overs, me stock ones we pooch, I could compress them by hand easily and they did not recoil. I did not take out my leafs, I just jeck up the truck high enough to the rear axle was hanging down all the way, used a sawsall to cut the top bolt, undid the bottom bolt, And installed the new shocks,

I guess with the 4x4 the front suspenion does not have room for coils, all I want is the seem type of shock I have in the back, and no other modifation, Fabtech makes them, but they are $1400 for the pair, I can buy 20 pairs of the premium gas shocks.

Here is a link for what I am talking about. http://www.powerstroked.com/product.php?productid=11066

Ok I could find what I was looking for, but take away the resvivior and that is what I want. I know they make them, I just can't find them now, that I want to buy a set.

 

you really need to do some research on suspensions before you just start adding things to your truck. yes the coilovers will be able to take more payload. They are stiffer springs, then you are adding them to the leaf springs you already have.

Its not that we dont have the room for coilovers, its the fact that you dont NEED coilovers, youve already got one source of spring up front called the torsion bars.

Normally when you search for parts for a truck and cant find anything that means its not needed. Dont go put superduty coilovers on it. Theres more to coilovers than that. You need the right weight, the right travel amount, and etc.

You need to get rid of them for some shocks, maybe some with a resevoir. Then get a add-a-leaf, helper springs, or air bags to help with load.

Then the front just get new shocks.

you are adding a ton of spring to your truck for practiacally no reason. the truck will ride rough as hell, and bouncy with all that spring.

but what do i know?

 

you don't even have IFS or stock axles, what do you know about a stock truck