it sticks out and does what besides rub my tire?
if it doesnt do anything except rub my tire, its gone, otherwise please inform me on what it does.
im gonna cut it off...

 

 

the tab that you place your bottle jack that came with you truck under to jack up the front wheel.

 

lol, your kidding? that things gone! besides, that jack isnt gonna do me much good anyhow... dont have a spare! :P

 

Klitch- no kidding, the only reason why I know this is I had to put my spare on a few weeks ago after I ran over a bolt in the road and it got stuck in the tread

 

You have a bottle jack? I got a scissors type jack with mine. My owners manual says

• Front
Note: Use the frame rail as the jacking location point, NOT the control
arm.

 

Yes the prior to 04 used a sort of bottle jack. It looked like a hydraulic jack but was actually a screw jack. The 04 comes with the scissors jack, similar to the one I got with my 71 Comet GT when I bought it. They have been around that long.
They A arms on previous years, were I believe, all steel, rather than aluminum. That's why we have to use the frame now.