Welp, that didn't go as planned.
Spent my Christmas bonus amassing parts for the upgrade. I'm too shot to try and be secretive about it, and also pretty excited.
Front end plan:
Superlift drop Brackets (Reinforced of course)
4 Inch skyjacker Coils
F-250 shock towers
Shocks - Undecided. Maybe throw some cheap Ranchos on there just to get driving
James Duff extended Radius arms - Already installed
Rear:
4 Inch skyjacker Softride leaves
Shocks still unknown
I will see how the rear settles. Right not I have the Chevy lift shackes back there but may have to replace with the stock ones once I get it all bolted up.
The goal here is to have an all around truck. I liked the way the TTB hits the terrain at high speed vs a SAS. Even with a wonky alignment it still drove great. I had decent amount of flex in the front. It did what I wanted too, I just want a little bit more without going crazy.
I shopped around and pieced everything together vs going with kits. Too many wasted parts plus some are still using a single plate for the passenger side drop down vs an actual drop bracket.
Originally the goal was to go cut/turned/extended beams. There's still that voice in the back of my head saying I should have done that from the get go. Maybe I should have, maybe I should have gone SAS. Who knows. This was the easiest way to get something done to the truck. I plan to drive it under it's own power to Carlisle this year and I wanted to have all the kinks worked out by then.
So enough soap boxing. Jacked up the truck today and started cutting stuff off. Had the passenger side coil bucket off in an hour and another hour of trimming to have the f-250 bucket where I wanted it. Using the lower mounting hole from the original coil bucket as a guide. (Pictures next time.)
Need to replace the TTB bushing so the entire assembly is coming out. Fckuing coil retainer bolt too three hours, a torch and a can of PB blaster to get out. Figure may as well do a complete R&R on the beams if I'm going to take them out. Also, the JD arms are starting to flake from being the in the salt water so much. Need to seal them up too.
One thing leads to another but do it once, do it right.