(fyi whole post is non angry just facts )i can show you my truck if you would like to see for yourself i live in san antonio ... lol my tires do lean in but they dont wear out to bad ... it dosent matter as for the not being able to fix it with the new uca your CRAZY what do you think comes with a 6 inch kit ?

* 3.5" Fabricated Lift Spindles

* 3" Lift Springs

* Upper Control Arms

so that mean that with those new uca it will set your alignment back to stock specs then if you add the 1.5 spacer you are just like a regular truck with a 1.5 spacer either need a alignment or new camber bolts to fix for the added camber

 

What i don't understand is how you were able to bolt the upper arms back to the spindle with 4.5 inches added in there. I would think that the upper arms would hit the frame because they'd be reaching down so far. What i also dont understand is how its even driveable. With just two inch coils in my truck the front wheels were kicked in very far at the top. - and it took new balljoints and a cam kit to get it alright

do you have a picture from the front where you can see the front wheels??



from what you said you have on the truck right now you should have about 7.5 inches of lift. ..and you said you have a total of 4 and in your picture it doesnt look like it has all that stuff under it either. The truck does look really good though

but somethings wrong here. please clarify this for me

 

A true 6" suspension lift comes with extended length steering knuckles(not spindles), extended length coils(far longer than stock coils), drop down sub-frame(or crossmembers) if you will, as well as extended length shocks. The whole reason for extended everything is because you need there to be more room between the LCA and the coil "mount" on the frame. There's simply not enough room to shove a "lift coil" capable of providing 3" of lift in there and THEN throwing a lift spacer on top of it. Some people have a horrible time compressing a stock coil with a lift spacer into the stock housings, let alone, a lift coil that has 3" of lift.

In order to run any kind of coil+spacer set up that provides between 2.5-3.5" of lift you need to have aftermarket upper control arms. If you dont then your upper control arms make a horrid angle with the spindles, I know, as I have tried it. I could barely get my ball joint to attach to the spindle with 2" lift coils and the 1.5" daystar spacer. I was not about to force it as it just looked all wrong. I can understand what you are thinking as far as "setting it back to stock specs" with the aftermarket upper control arms, but the whole jist of the story is.. you are not creating any more space for that coil+spacer set up to be forced into. Therefore its my belief that it would not work.

 

i concur

NO NO NO... a actual 6" Supsension kit comes with a new front crossmember that lowers the LCA.

As far as im concerned the only think aftermarket UCA's do is allow for alittle more angle... not more lift they are still made to the same specs as the stock UCA's except the joint is different.

 

I concor too. I got 3" lift springs and everything was thrown off, and not only that the ball joint like you mentioned was a pain in the ***. There is no way that truck has 4.5" of coil lift. I would be almost as high as yours after his body lift. My quesstimate is 1.5" spacer and 3" Body lift.

 

Agreed and he knows cuz hes seen all the pics of my new stuff compared to his spindles and coils.

 

ok so does any one know were i can get a spindle lift for cheap and some rims with off road tires? my budgets about 2400 for my lift and rims. the cheapest spindle lift i found was about 900.

 

b2therad will sell you his with lift coils and shocks haha.

what are you looking for? spindles and rear blocks?
did you look at doetsch

 

More info on lift you want. SpringTech has Spindles for 379

 

yea thats what i was thinking about getting but if its gonna be like 900 i might as well get a 6in for like 1200. and no i only looked at the fabtech ones.

 

did you read the thread? refer to post 7 about the broken springtech spindle haha.

 

i think brad was looking for around 800 for his basically 6" all around with shocks but youd have to talk with him

 

Haha. The 7.5" lift with 4.5" Lift on coils. Yeah lets believe him...

I know personally at least 5 guys running those Spindles with ZERO problems. Litterly not a damn thing wrong. Just his luck, he has such bad luck his 7.5" lifted F150 sits about 4" higher than stock 2WD.

I know a blue 2002 Ranger Edge that has those SpringTech Spindles and beats the living crap out of his truck and still hasn't broken anything on SpringTech.

 

yeah thats what i was thinking too

search craigslist for rims and tires

 

lol ok well here are pics i just took as for how the tires lean in they look worse in the pic then that actually are .. the height to the top of the front fender is 40.25inches and the rear is 40 inches that is with 285/75/16's running about 35 psi all around with a empty gas tank

as for my ranger and the broken spindle it was rather clear that there was nothing that i could of done to cause the stud to snap in half ??? but yea i guess it was bad luck ...