If you can follow my tear down instructions in my brake write up, then its something you can do yourself. The sizes might be a little different with the aftermarket stuff....
https://www.f150online.com/forums/ar...-write-up.html


based on the above picture, you do in fact have lift spindles. Not sure if they are fabtech or not, but they are definitely lift spindles.

 

Fabtech control arms mean fabtech spindles, there arms won't work with any other brand unfortunately otherwise I would have upgraded to the long travel fabtech haha.

 

I'm sorry I mispoke, I figured if it was that you would have said so and when you didn't, I figured it was OEM spindle?

Sounds mucho $$$ but could have been worse.

Yes .... even as you get this side fixed, you want to make sure the other side is serviced as well.

 

oh, mybad i should have! Its fabtech spindle forsure. And yeah its gettin pretty expensive, but your right could have been way worse. haha i just want my truck back. its been like 2 in a half weeks and im ganna get the other side looked at too, not having this problem again!

On another note, could you take a 2wd offroading? like not crazy stuff but just bumbs and some hills? or just street use?

 

You can offroad it, you just have to know your limits since your 2wd. I take mine off the road all the time, but depending where your going you should bring someone with you who has 4x4. Look over in the off-roading section on here, I think there's a thread just for us 2wd people.

 

I've talked to fabtech about just getting spindles, you can order just the box from the 7.5 inch lift which is cheaper than ordering just the spindles. Your looking at about 700 for both spindles or if you can get just one probably 350ish. Call 4 wheel parts they can get it for you. FT30037D and FT30037P are the spindle part numbers.

 

And when you replace your bearings ONLY get Timken bearings or you will regret it.

 

The caliper mounting bracket kept your tire on. I would replace it all. Spindle, bearings (Koyo high Cap's) 2wd rotor..(comes with the ABS ring) ABS sensor may be toast. I roasted a bearing on mine way back and the bearing race was welded to the spindle. That sucks. Have them replace pads too while they are in there replacing stuff. Don't go cheap and get it done right the first time around and save yourself the heart burn later.

 

Shoot Yeah! You can have same lifts, same tires, have less weight in front, only have to consider regearing rear end X1, maybe an air or other locker even with $$$ saved. It'll go 90% of the places your buddies go, but there are times when you will have to "think" more and maybe not try those bogs your buddies try (which even they get stuck in). Take your supplies, a high lift, some boards, some winch like a comealong at least, etc.

In 1903 Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker were the first to drive across America in a 20 hp Winton. That's a two WD two cylinder open touring car with skinny tires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson_Jackson
There were no roads most of the way. "Horatio's Drive" a fascinating book to read, there's also a DVD put out by Ken Burns same title. I have both, I suggest both to anyone interested in automotive / transportation history and the influence on America's evolution.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382744/

http://www.amazon.com/Horatios-Drive.../dp/037541536X

More to the point though, if they did what they did on "no roads" in the wild, you can have some off road fun as well.



You laugh, others will too, but I recall some 4 wheelin' we did back in the early '70s with a buddies 1955 GMC 3/4 ton PU which was 2 WD and had a 235 I6 and 4 speed and a welded rear and then we once took his older brother's GTO with new studded snow tires 4 wheelin' on the powerline.

Yeah .... we did, and we did it with my '69 VW Beetle Bug too.