I just ordered a 2"/4" drop kit for my '98 Ext. Cab. I was wondering if anyone else has dropped their truck that much and might be able to post a few pics so I can get an idea what mine will look like.

 

are you going to do the install yourself? or are you haveing a shop do it for you?

 

Gonna do it myself. A friend has lowered every Chevy he has owned, so now he's gonna attempt a Ford. When the kit comes in, we'll pull it into his heated garage and have at it. He said it will cost me a case of beer AFTER IT'S DONE, NOT DURING! I've already told my wife it's gonna be a LONG day. haha

 

I just dropped my truck last weekend with a Belltech 2/4 Drop.

https://www.f150online.com/galleries...99-96-9546.jpg

 

SWEET... Thanks for the photo. Did you drop it yourself? If so, was is a pain in the rear?

 

Yes I did do it myself with some help of a friend. The only hard part is cutting the rivets holding the front rear spring hanger. If your're doing it yourself make sure you have an air chisel to cut the rivets, even with that it's a pain!! Good luck!

 

I have done a couple of them myself and I have access to just about every kind of mech tool that you can have in cludeing a lift and it is a real pain the last one I did was on my wifes truck and it took me about 4 hours just to do the rear end cutting the rivets drilling them out and and pounding them with an air chisel. I can not even imaging someone trying to do this wit out air tools.

 

Anyone know how this compares to a Chevy? Just wondering since the guy helping me has only done Chevy's....

 

Basically the same thing. If it has a hanger drop and there are rivets not nuts and bolts that mount the rear hangers to the frame your in for half a day of cut off wheel grinding air chisel pounding drill bit breaking fun. the hangers are the hardest part. it is not impossible but it does get old after awhile of trying to get them out.

 

im not sure if this works but it seams like it would in my head. what if you took and cut the rivits out with a... crap i cant think of the name of it. when you are welding, you know the part that does the cutting. that is the "cutter" im talking about. just go in a start cutting

 

I don't exactly what you are thinking about. The only way the I found to get them out is to cut with a cut off wheel two slices through the heaqd of the rivet one about 1/3 of the way in form the left and one 1/3 of the way in from the right end of the head of the rivet then with a air chisel I started at one side and hamered the daylights out of it until I had worked off all three piece that now make up the head of the rivet. I then got my drill and drilled three different size holes though the rivet body. Sometimes they come out with the last drill bit sometimes they don't. If they don't I then take my Air chisel with a pointed bit in it and pound the center of the rivet until it pops out.

This has been the easiest way for me to get these out I do have a friend that is a body man by trade and he said that every time he runs into one of these rivets he takes a torch to the center of the rivet and burn a hole through it then it just pops right out. The problem is the one tool I do not have it a cutting torch. Some people also didn't like the idea of a torch and a frame but that is what he said he uses all the time. So who knows.

 

thats what i ment. i can see why some people dont like alot of heat on the frame

 

Sounds like it's gonna be a LONG day...

 

atleast you know now that it wont be a 20min job to get them off. good luck at keep track of time and tell us how long it acutally took

 

I'll keep you posted as to how it went. I still haven't received a confirmation number from "Stylin Concepts", so I have no idea when the kit will even be here.I'll also post before and after pics. Possibly even some "during" pics.