My FX2 has a 3-pack AND has 20' rims.....Sounds to me Ford might have throwed these things together what was ever laying around at the time.
As far as I can tell the Beltech isnt adjustable. It already comes with a shorter hanger on the back leaf and there isn't any more room to make it even shorter in my opinion. Im anxious to see how they are going to fix this problem...Other than making the shocks longer..or the rearend cradle shorter

 

So my brother, "b_cirilla" called me last night with his measurements. He is 18" on both sides in the rear, 18" at front passenger, and 18 3/4" at front driver. We are pretty sure they installed the wrong spacer or one spacer too many on the driver side so he is going to check it out.

Once he gets that front driver side to an even 18" he will have achieved the closest yet to what Belltech advertises as the 3/5 drop. According to our stock measurements a true 3/5 drop would put you at 18 1/2" at both the front and rear.

To be honest I really like the look of my 4 1/2" / 6" drop. I really want to go air all around and lay frame. I think I am going to start working towards trying to get there.

 

Milt....was is your honest opinion that I should do??....Dont know if you have read all the posts but it seems Beltech is trying to fix the problem (maybe 3 weeks)....I was thinking of going ahead Tuesday and talking the one fat spacer I have on the front to maybe drop it down even lower...But I dont see how that spacer will drop it in the front to even it out and not even worry about the back. I know I will have to get it re aligned but that is no big deal to me......but could that spacer drop the whole front end a inch????...What do yall think??....I dont know if it will look right with the back...

 

I say go ahead and remove the spacers and see how it looks. I would also check the angles at the ball joints too though to make sure its not to bound up. Like I stated earlier I am pretty sure I am not running any spacers and that would explain why I am all the way down to 17" in the front. Of course I do have 35K miles on the struts and springs so maybe I am sagging in the front now. Either way I have been running mine the way it is for 35K miles now with no problems.

 

So, with the front spacer out that should put me about 18 in the front....and if I leave the rear kit alone it will stay about 17 1/2 in the rear.....Think I will take another set of measurements before Tuesday......I know I do not like the way it sits right now and its driving me crazy....

 

Hey on the bright side some people probably see you driving down the road and think you have bags and are just cruising "cali style".

 

True dat.............After thinking about it Im going to leave the front end alone for right now and see what Beltech says....Have my son this week for the holidays and might take it easy.....I keep going back to the pics of our three trucks and they are very similar in the front end with the naked eye

 

Just did my struts. I sit at 18 1/4 now. I only used one small 8mm spacer. and when I first lowered it off the Jack it sat at 20.5. I was pissed ...... then I drove it around the block, came back and t was at 181/4.

 

That's just about right. All the ones I measured were 21 1/2 stock in the front. That would mean you got 3 1/4 drop. That's pretty close.

 

I think in that pic it's hard to see my front end because of the shadows. My front is a good bit lower. When I had my stock wheels and tires I could barely put two fingers between the tire and the fender flare.

 

Did y'all have a rear block? If so then that could be why your lower than some...?maybe could have done the 4" rear and then it might be right. Just thinking..

 

I want to go as low as I can and not scrub....I know I can drop another 3/4 or 1 inch with the spacers out..But scared of what Beltech has instore for the rear fix....As a matter of fact when I cut sharp right today in a parking lot something made a noise in the front passanger side...Going to investigate in the morning...
The two finger mark is about what Im at in the rear....I plan on putting 22' on and dont want them TOO close to my tires with the stock 20's

 

I used to have a noise when turning at low speeds or going over speed bumps after installing my struts. Turns out I didn't have the lower strut bolt tight enough. Turns out it calls for 406 ft-lbs of torque. I have no idea why such a specific number, but I fixed it by hitting it with my impact gun as hard as I could.

Which reminds me of something else that can cause the front-end to stick up unnaturally. When tightening that lower strut bolt, the front suspension must be sitting at ride height. If it's not, then there is some tension in the strut bushing that will hold the truck up. The best way I found to do this is to leave the lower strut bolt loose, drive around the block once to make sure it's fully settled, then go to a level area and tighten each of the lower strut bolts with the truck on the ground. For added insurance, I measure the height on each side before tightening to make sure they're equal.

 

Well I decided to just give the belltech kit a shot and see what happens, if it don't work my buddy might get creative with it..
I didn't want to waste time waiting for the refund to show and wasn't crazy about the leafs from GF.

When it's done I'll let ya know

 

Cool. Don't forget to post pics.