some pics im taking during install. UPS just showed up with my new MOOG lower ball joints, now im ready to go, except i dont have an 18mm socket, i have 15, 17, and 19. damn, when the lady gets home ill take her car. for now, here it is half *** taken apart.

 

 

Looks like you got a good start so far!

 

so far. can i get a close up of your upper control arms?

 

That's the only shot I have of them, but I think Buxton91 on here has a better shot of his.

Sorry for the huge picture ha.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/19...mation-16.html
About halfway down that page Buxton has some of his, and Boomer has some of his in that thread too.

 

sorry for sounding ignorant, but WTH is this?

 

It's for the bumpstop thing? Not sure what it's technically called though haha. If you look closely in my pic you'll see it right underneath the control arm on the side towards the back of the truck. It bolt's up right under there threw those two holes, and then the hole on the angled part is where that little black **** looking thing goes.

It's basically to limit your down travel before the control arm hits the spring, but if your gonna run a spacer with the lift you almost don't even need it.

 

thanks!!! im done for tonight though, coils are a pain in my *** and the upper arms arent fitting, that metal piece between the bushings on the arms for bolt to go through is just barely too long for the front mount. hmmmm

 

You might have to spread the arm mounts on the frame a little, just tap it with a hammer to bring it out some so you can slide the arm in. It's from where after they do an alignment they tighten down the bolts on the outside and it pulls them together so the alignment doesn't slip out, and eventually they'll just kinda wanna stay in place.

And yea the coils are a pain. The easiest way is to just undo everything from the lower arm, so judging by your last pic just take off the sway bar, it'll take a few minutes. Then just kinda brace yourself against the fender and step on the lower arm to push it down and eventually the coil will just fall out. I did the same thing to get it back in haha. It'll take all your strength and coordination to do it, but it only took me like 5 minutes to do each side once I figured out to do it that way haha.

 

how do you install the mount for the bottom part of the shock?

 

Picture? I'm not sure what mount your referring too.

 

thanks

 

Oh okay, mine came completely together so I was little confused ha.

Alright so the metal thing that has like prongs on either end will slide through the hole on the bottom of the shock.

Then at the top it'll go washer with the indent towards the bottom, bushing so the indent on that is on the bottom so it rest in the washer. Then you'll slide it through the hole at the top of the coil bucket and it'll go bushing with the indent up and then washer and then nut.

I'm not too sure with that other cylinder shaped metal piece is though.

The only thing I can think of is they come as universal shocks, so you can choose what insert you need to use for the bottom of it.

 

thats what i thought. its just a VERY tight fit.

 

Yea make sure you get it in there the right direction the first time, otherwise it'll probably be really hard to adjust it straight. But of course if it's a little off center you can just get the top in place and then use the screws to straighten it out as you tighten the bottom.