Spacers with 4.5" lift

[08Monster]

I currently have a 4.5" lift on my 2008 F250, could I put 2in bottom mount coil spacers to make it a 6.5? What's all needed? Thanks

 

[sootie]

longer track bar, possibly a different hole gets utilized on your radius arm mounts.

 

[Radioflyer]

When I went from a 4" to 6" front, I had to do control arm drop brackets, pitman arm, trac bar drop brackets, brake lines, and if i remember right also changed the steering stabilizer a little.

 

[08Monster]

Holy crap. So lots.

 

[248superduty]

No. Went from 6" to 8" with spacers only thing I changed was putting spacer in.

 

[08Monster]

Any other opinions?

 

[TripleE44]

To do it the right way, and keep your truck steering and driving the same, you need more than just the spacer. Sure it would work to just throw a spacer on there but it's far from ideal. Off the top of my head:

Adjustable trac bar(if you don't have one) or a trac bar drop bracket. You could do without this but your axle would be off center.

Extended sway bar links or drop brackets

Brake lines wouldn't be a bad thing to do. I ran stock ones on 7'' lift on my 08 and it wasn't a huge issue but we did have to modify the bracket down next to the coil.

Drop pitman arm

Possibly shocks, but hard to say. I know some are 4-6'' height but some are 2-4''.

Something with the radius arm assuming you don't have an adjustable 4-link or something like that.

Another thing to think about is 7'' Icon coils from PMF are only $350 and you wouldn't have to run the spacer.

 

[Radioflyer]

Extended sway bar links or drop brackets

This is what I was thinking of^^ Not brake lines. Thank you TripleE44


I found out about the hard way when I did mine. I changed my springs entirely but it served the same purpose. I ruined my adjustable trac bar because I didn't have the proper brackets. Even though it's only a 2" difference, the stock locations just cant take the strain and my trac bar was adjusted WAY out when I did the springs. I hit a bump just right, and ripped the threads out of the trac bar ends.

 

[08Monster]

So I need it even longer than the stuff that came with my 4.5? I have Carli coils so I'm not buying new coils and scrapping these. Haha the lift came with a trac bar drop, pitman arm, its got prob 6in of extra brake line (kit came with new ones) and I have another hole to drop to on my radius arm drop brackets

 

[TripleE44]

For some reason I was just thinking you had a rough country kit not a carli one.

The trac bar drop and the pitman arm is going to be for a 4" lift. Ideally you want those for a 6" lift. I don't know that those are make or break things. Aside from your axle shifting of you don't address the trac bar bracket or bar itself.

The radius arm brackets, I've never heard of them having more than one hole so I don't know there. I'd assume that's enough for 2 more inches but I don't know for sure.

Do you have carli shocks too? If so I'd be inclined to think those would work stretched a little being that they offer a different shock for the 2.5" kits and the 4.5" kits. Either way with the shocks you could probably just put the spacer on and they'd work at least temporarily until you find out if you need longer ones.

Still need something for the sway bar.

Any of that stuff isn't necessarily 100% vital, but will make te truck ride and drive better. If you just threw the spacer in it wouldn't really be much different than running the 2" spacer on a stock truck. I'm just not someone to just do the bare minimum I guess. I'd just want it to be 100% right.

 

[Radioflyer]

So I need it even longer than the stuff that came with my 4.5? I have Carli coils so I'm not buying new coils and scrapping these. Haha the lift came with a trac bar drop, pitman arm, its got prob 6in of extra brake line (kit came with new ones) and I have another hole to drop to on my radius arm drop brackets

I don't blame you one bit on the springs! LOL I'm going to be switching all mine over to stock height, i'll take some pic's for comparison and measurements for you when I pull it all apart. May help you a little in your decision. :thumbsup:

Any of that stuff isn't necessarily 100% vital, but will make te truck ride and drive better. If you just threw the spacer in it wouldn't really be much different than running the 2" spacer on a stock truck. I'm just not someone to just do the bare minimum I guess. I'd just want it to be 100% right.

Agree'd. My truck drove way better after having the 'proper' brackets and what not.

 

[Radioflyer]

Just to start this back up, I put my truck back to stock and here is what all was changed:

- Control arm drop brackets
-Trac bar drop bracket/re-location (and the bracket bracket that came with the lift was re-enforced)
- Steering stabilizer drop bracet/re-location
- Dropped pitman arm

These were all needed when I went to my 6" front end lift.

 

[08Monster]

Really. Wow. Why does a 2.5 level not need anything.