Yeah that is true, it came with a 3inch lift and a leveling kit, hopefully I can modify the brackets. Driver side front wheel right?


That might be the two manhole covers my truck fell in the last month due to the state not maintaining their roads after a huge rainstorm where the manhole covers disappeared and at night you can't really see them if your turning onto a block.....thankfully no flat tire but I think that might've caused the misalignment.......<--- thats gonna cost me though to fix. :-( Aside from that, it might also be that the wheel is turned alittle or the incline of the road, but more than likely its a misalignment

 

Simple enough to figure out. Your truck's body is lifted off of the frame. Your grille guard isn't. Now keep in mind that for the guard to be effective, it has to be mounted on the frame. You could fabricate something, like a bracket, to lift the guard; but I doubt that it will be strong enough to allow your guard to absorb energy from an impact.

 

that sucks, so how do lifted f150 driver successfully get this to work with it still being strong enough.......i need more input from some who've done it. i can't be the only one here.

 

You can raise the guard with fabricated brackets for aesthetics, but you will not have the same strength as with the guard bolted right on the frame. People who want a lift and the full protection of a grille guard have suspension lifts, not body lifts.

 

This is how my grille guard fits with a suspension lift.

 

I didn't know there was two differences to it, previous owner installed the body lift, I am not even sure what the difference is, I thought it would've been a suspension lift, would make more sense since people tend to either drop the suspension in sports cars or lifted it in suvs/pickups.

I guess i'm stuck in a jam


How hard is it to do a suspension lift? Maybe i could tackle that next summer

 

You could easily do a leveling kit, but then you have to have the truck re-aligned. However that doesn't solve your body-lift problem and your grille-guard mayhem! Let us know how this turns out for you.

Oh, and FYI:

Basically, a body lift is when the cab, bed, steering linkage, and other parts are lifted from the frame of the truck about 2-3". Spacers are installed where the body bolts to the frame and you get the look of a suspension lift (sort of) without all of the expense.

Suspension lifts, on the other hand, raise the entire frame, body, cab, etc. all together by adjusting (as you guessed) the suspension!!

Jeff
A new member, working on my sig for later!

 

Should have gone with a black one..

 

You could get the guard to sit about 1" higher if you remove the tow hooks and position the guard against the frame rail then reinstall the tow hooks below the guard.

 

Well hey that sounds like a good idea, it also had a spacer on top of the tow hooks too that i left there, I could do that it should ride much higher. Sadly i would never do a body lift, i'd rather do an actual suspension lift so when I can afford it, I'm going all out on the suspension and possibly getting rid of the body lift if i decide too unless i want to upgrade to bigger tires.

Thanks and I still have yet to find a shop in NJ willing to fix it, they all sell grille guards but won't custom fit them.



and i was thinking about black but i wanted stainless steel with some black to lighten up the front alittle, my fog lights will be black casing when i get them so it'll look pretty cool.

 

Why would they want that headache? Then they're worried about liability. You smack into something, then sue them? No shop in the world wants that.

 

yeah i hear ya but one like myself would like to know where alot of the body lifted trucks in my area actually get stuff like this custom fitted since I'm not the only one with this problem

 

to make matters worse, its already rusting, what p.o.s. is this???
I thought Hunters Grill Guards were suppose to be good?

$300 down the drain

and its only been on the truck for like 3 weeks, what to do now?

 

you could get it powdercoated or line-xed. That should help with the rust.

 

I shouldnt have to, I just bought the damn thing, its a rip off and I will make a post to warn others about them til they refund me for this or issue me new rust-free grille guards, i've never seen chrome rust this fast