i have a 97 f150 2wd. reg cab stepside bed. i am thinking about trying to take the independant rear suspension off of an expedition and fit it onto my truck. does anybody know if i can do this and also if i can, does anybody know if i can then lower the truck with the new rear suspension? thanks for your responses.

 

I saw an Expy IRS fitted to an 04 in a magazine, but it was lifted.

 

Anything is possible, but this is going to be FAR from a bolt on mod. It's definitely going to require some parts/brackets fabrication along with some welding.

 

yah there was a truck they did it to that i saw posted on here a while back, but it looked like a ton of custom fabrication. Basically they cut the frame in half at the bed, welded on the expy frame back from there, the made custom bed mounts for the expy frame...
-Patrick

 

Anythings possible but it would be a very time consuming, labor intensive project. It's much easier to go from coils to leaf springs than the other way around. You'd have to link the rear suspension perfectly which would be extremely hard and where would you put the top of the coil spring without a coil pocket. Next question is why would you even consider doing it?

 

i thought about doing it just because you never see it.