you mean the stock tire size? 275/65/18s? it sits great.

let me know how you like the ride of those bilsteins. you getting the rear ones too? do you know the increments of the adjustment are?

no i don't think so it doesn't make the phaser noise at idle, when the truck sits for 15+ hours without being started, when you first start it it ticks or flutters a few times (less than 1.5 seconds id say) then shuts up. if i use the truck every day like i usually do it doesnt do it. from what ive read and gathered from my thread i started a bit ago thats the sound when the filter lets the oil drain away from the variable cam timing solenoid. ive been getting motocrafts from wally world and im thinking they are going to ****, but i put a purolator pure one on there and it still does it so i dont know. if anything its a lifter getting stuck or a lash adjuster or something super expensive.

 

No they are larger than stock. 285 something...

I will let you know, Ive had them before on my old F150. I know they were night and day compared to the spacer. I will see if it is the same again with this truck.

The increments are 0 or 2 but I had a machinist turn another groove in my old set so I could run 1.5" that was perfect. I am not sure if I will have that done again or not.

Wouldnt an antidrain back valve correct this oil issue? Im not sure I would worry about it if its only a second. Maybe timing chains? I know my 5.4 DOHC makes some crazy sounds at startup but its expected on that engine.

 

Might be. It started doing it a while ago though it didn't used to. 2 inches will still leave your back end higher by an inch should be perfect. 04-05s have 3 inches of rake most of the time. I always heard bilsteins rode more stiff than stock

 

I painted the wiper cowling and wiper arms. Turned out pretty good in my opinion. Need to do the fender flares next.

 

BTW mods, can we sticky this thread? 30k views, i think its about time

 

I bought it. Well I agreed to buy it. Put $100 down in good faith on a White 2004 Supercrew XLT 4x4 to replace my totaled Silver Metallic 2004 FX4. When insurance check arrives I'll pick the truck up.

 

got plans laid out for dumping my exhaust, and slung tire shine all over it. all in a days work

 

Finally got the Hella Micro FF's installed in the bumper. Now, the wiring... Hoping I can get to that in less than the year it took me to get around to installing the Hella's

 

Swapped stock head unit back in to wrecked truck to keep my 3 week old head unit. My old truck got taken away today.

 

That sucks man


Washed the truck and polished my wheels and tips

 

Almost washed it. Didn't quite make it that far though

 

Went to get a new exhaust put on my truck today, when i got there I saw a big sign that said closed on Wednesdays...so no exhaust for me

 

washed it in the dark. ill never learn. always think its going to be easier because the soap wont dry, but it ends up being just as much of a pita.

 

cleaned my K&N air filter. man oh man was it dirty. let it go 25k and i wont be doing that again. checked oil and trans fluid and were all good.

 

truck did a strange shift on me going up a hill and for some reason, i could be being paranoid, but i feel like ive got a little bit of a vibration and my exhaust seems louder, like the truck is struggling. im being very paranoid about my transmission lately. i was at the beach and took it on the sand and it felt very very sluggish, so i reloaded my tune (been running canned level 2 tow tune on a gryphon) and it went back to being normal. now its been feeling sluggish again so i decided to change it up and reloaded my tune but went with the level 1 tune. also corrected for my tire size. i dont like how the level two tune holds first for a long time, moving up in traffic gets to be awkward sometimes because it tries to shift to second right as im letting off the throttle.

really hope im not about to have transmission troubles. i hate being paranoid