I am so pissed off at my self right now...............

Both of my rear blocks have chunks missing, both shocks have HUGE dents in the axle side of their bodies, and my U-joint is beat to ****..........

I almost wanted to puke......





There goes my Formula Toy Build............ );

 

When you extend the U bolts that far the springs have less control of axle windup so those things happen when a lot of torque is applied.
You also need to be concerned about the U joint pulling to far out of the transmission tailshaft housing.
Good luck.

 

well my plan at this point is full size leaf springs ( 5" Skyjacker Leafs) and add my 2" add-a-leaf back. then go with shorter u-bolts

 

aluminum lift or lowering blocks have always been prone to cracking too

it's really the wrong place to use aluminum sandwiched between to very active pieces of steel

 

AAL is great, dont the make a hanger flip for lift too? just another option... sucks about the bad axle wrap

 

Bars , -or a Hotchkiss set up. Summit sells bars pretty cheap, - they work !
There's cheap set ups or the more expensive ones, -both work. - Could of been worse, -as Bluegrass mentioned...

 

Get with performance metal fab (PMF) and they can build you a set of traction blocks. its a block with integrated mount for traction bars. beefy as **** and will handle what you can throw at them.

 

its all fixed now, well blocks anyway. went back to my 4.5" solid lift blocks. calling my parts guy today to see if i can get my money back... bet that goes over like a lead balloon.


Thanks jake ill check them out.

 

and thats why I got traction bars, I was also losing a lot of power to the ground. my blocks are solid steel though...maybe 15-20lbs each.

 

thats crazy man! good thing you caught it before something bad happened!!

X2, and not running blocks helps too

 

Man that's shi**y.. This makes me want to invest into a set of deaver's now..LOL I would say go steel blocks & traction bars if ya could or leaf spring it like you said.

 

Drop the coin, get leafs first. I have reason to need traction bars still with my 8" alcan leafs. You pushin 400+ to the wheels? I doubt it, so just get some quality leaf packs built. Til you get something REAL under the *** of that truck, you're wasting your time..

You're a prime example as to why blocks should be immediately discarded.

 

well. im getting a new drive shaft!







Ford wanted 1,333.33 for the drive shaft.

Autozone ordered me one for 307 + a core fee.

there goes my trail rig build.

 

did u try a scrap yard???? damn that f%&kin sucks bro....

 

i thought about it, but i didnt wanna risk the chance of buying another problem