What is the best way tol evel out the front end on my truck? Is it ok to tighten the torsion bar or is there a leveling coil I should purchase? I want whatever keeps the smooth ride that is has now in stock form/setup.

Thanks!

 

Try cranking the torsion bars first. It's free and will give you the look your after. If you don't like it you can always lower it back to where it was. I did it on mine and everything is fine. I don't know of any coil to rasie the front end because these trucks don't use them, but I'm sure somebody has a product to raise the front.

 

How the heck do I do the torsion bars? Thanks and sorry for sounding like an idiot.

~Colby

 

My 2000 Expedition has the "nose droop" as well. How do you tighten torsion bars. BTW I had a front end alignment done and one tech said you could tighten and one said it would move all the alignment #s out of spec. Both were in the same shop. ????? Can tightning the torsion bars be accomplished with hand tools?

 

You tighten them with a ratchet and socket. Can't remeber the size though. A 1/2inch ratchet or srtong bar would be easier but i did mine with a 3/8. Get under you truck and follow the torsion bars back to where the stop under the cab. There will be a bolt for each one that you can turn to raise and lower the frint end.

Make sure you park the truck on level ground, and measure each corner of the truck. Then turn each bolt (clockwise I believe) the same number of turns until it looks level. Now you can measure again to verify it went up. (In case your eyes play tricks on you. )

Just remeber that if you level the truck out and you put alot of weight in the badk then the back will be lower than the front. As far as alignment, I had mine done after I raised the truck. I needed one anyways so I didn't purposely have it done becasue of the torshion bars. There has been alot of debate here if the torsion bars change the alignment. If in doubt have it done to save the wear on your tires.

 

hey just wanted to chime in here, I recently cranked my torsion bars for the level look and it wound up messing up the camber portion of my alignment, this cannot be adjusted without purchasing a special alignment kit on our trucks.

I had to crank the right front about 1 inch and the left 1/4 to get a level ride all around.

It was riding rough and pulling bad to the right. So I got it aligned and lowered the front about a quarter inch back to about where the left front was stock (FX4). It was riding great again and not pulling anymore.

Then About two weeks later, my front right CV boot began to leak grease, I don't know if this had ANYTHING to do with the torsion bar adjustment or not but if I had to do it all over again, now that I have had to pay to get the CV joint and boot fixed, and an alignment, I would NEVER adjust the torsion bars. Just my experience though, I must have the WORST luck in the world, everyone else here has them cranked and no one reports problems.

 

Cranked mine about an extra 3 turns right after I bought the truck a year and a half ago (bought new tires at the same time) and have had no abnormal tire wear problems or alignment problems. I'm looking into picking up the snow plow torsion bars soon, along with the heavier duty 5 leaf rear springs.

My 2 cents

 

Oh yeah, if I recall from installing the clutch, I think the bolt head is 18mm for adjusting the torsion bars?