- Hey, guys, Shawn again at Custom Offsets.
Custom Offsets TV on the YouTube.
Got another episode of Lifted and Leveled.
This one's gonna be frickin' sweet.
We've been actually waiting to get
a couple of these builds going,
waiting on parts to come in.
These guys actually came in within, like, a day.
But this time, we got
a 2011 Ford Super Duty F-250 PowerStroker.
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This one's gonna get a four inch coilover system
from BDS, so it's gonna have the Fox coilovers
with the external reservoirs.
It's gonna basically replace all of the shocks
throughout the entire truck.
It's going to have some different other stuff.
It's got dual steering stabilizers.
It's gonna have a complete leaf pack replacement,
even with the full option,
'cause he's doing a lotta towing
with his camper and whatnot.
So a lotta people are asking
why would you spend over $4,000
for a system like this,
which is a full coilover system,
versus, you can get a four-and-a-half inch,
and this is a four inch system by the time we're done,
four-and-a-half-inch Rough Country,
or I believe a Fabtech,
they're all right around a thousand bucks if not less.
The biggest difference is
that is gonna basically come in here,
it's gonna completely replace this spring coil.
So this is gonna come outta here,
and then it's gonna have that coilover system in there,
and what we'll do once we get this build completely done,
we'll go for a ride-along
and just show you the difference in the ride
because the whole concept is it should be taking
and just completely enhancing that front suspension
to really take some of the bumps outta the road
and take this big, heavy truck
and have it just glide down the road like a Cadillac.
So we'll take that ride.
I've not been in one of these
with the straight axles running the coilover system,
so even myself, I'm interested to see
if that $3,000 gap is filled with the ride quality.
But we're told it definitely is, so looking forward to it.
You guys will be able to watch
as we do this install,
and then we'll come back with you, go for a ride,
and kinda talk through some of the components.
Hot pockets.
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- Alright, so the next thing we're doing here is,
we gotta remove the factory lower coil spring bucket here
because of the coilovers that we're gonna be using here.
These coilovers are gonna be taking the place
of where the factory coil spring was,
and because it's like a shock,
and they have these eyelet holes on the ends
that kinda fit these new brackets basically,
where it'll sit in there like that,
and this will replace the factory lower coil bucket,
so we have to remove those.
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Okay, so after we remove the lower coil bucket,
we have to do something about the top one here
because the factory, they come with this alignment cup here,
or whatever you wanna call it,
where the spring isolator sits around that,
and you have to cut this completely off,
flush with the top of this bucket here,
so that you can then bolt this bracket into place.
It's similar to how the bottom one's gonna work,
where the coilover eyelet is going to sit in here,
as you can see.
It's kinda like how a shock sits.
And that's gonna go up there,
that's actually gonna this way and sit up in there,
so we gotta cut that cup off here
with a saw is all, and do a lotta grinding,
and make a lotta noise, and get dirty.
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Yeah, it was fun.
Yeah, we gotta cut the other side now.
Let's go.
- [Jr.] Do you wish you had longer blades?
- Yes.
Whoa, this is a good song.
Alright, cutting the other side.
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What we talked about before is these
upper coilover brackets, which are gonna go
right where we cut those spring cups off of,
and we got to bring them in here.
We're gonna have to set 'em,
and then mark these holes.
We'll have to mark the holes
and drill them out to 15/32nds.
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This kit has the dual steering stabilizer set up,
it's optional, and I did that next,
which would be this piece here,
this piece here, and there's these U bolts
that bolt around the axle,
and you gotta bolt this on,
and bolt it to the front disc cover,
and then I just set these up here,
which is where each one
of the actual stabilizers is gonna go,
and I'm gonna probably do that last
'cause you gotta mess with how you set 'em
to get the right length
so that they don't overextend and whatnot,
so I'm probably gonna do that last,
but I just have these set here in place,
and then we went ahead and we had to remove
the track bar here,
which would bolt up to that factory bracket up here
because the kit is gonna come with a drop bracket
that we'll install later.
So I went ahead and removed that,
and then we had to remove the drag link
from the Pitman arm because we gotta install
our drop Pitman arm,
and that's gonna be the next step is removing
the Pitman arm, and I think it's gonna be a bitch
because they all are and they suck.
And I'll probably end up having to cut it off,
but I'll try and pull it off.
Peace.
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Then the next thing we gotta do is,
we're pretty much done with the front,
we just have to do our sway bar drop.
There's some brackets, I'll show you.
Kit comes with these drop brackets for the sway bar,
just to bring the sway bar down lower
and give you a better angle on your sway bar
for the lift height.
So we gotta drop that
and then basically it's just a matter of hooking
the sway bar back up
and hooking our drag link back up to our Pitman arm
and hooking up random lines and all that good stuff,
and then the front should pretty much be done.
Oh, I also wanted to note
that you guys may have saw me take
the sway bar down earlier,
and that was just so I could get in here
to the Pitman arm.
When I was trying to cut it,
I had to drop this down,
but I bolted it back up,
even though I gotta take it back down again,
but that was why I did that.
So the front's pretty much almost done here,
and then we'll move to the back.
Peace.
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Alright guys and girls,
so we're pretty much done with this lift here.
The last thing I talked about was
finishing up the front,
and then you saw me go to the back.
The rear is always easiest.
It's pretty straight-forward.
On this one, the customer decided to buy
the optional leaf spring packs,
so there's no block in the back anymore,
and that's pretty much just a remove and replace.
Take out the old spring and the block,
and put in the new spring.
And then followed by the shocks,
that's pretty straight-forward as well,
you take the old shocks off,
and the new ones go in the place of that.
The last thing that we have to do here is lower
the truck onto the ground,
all the weight's on the suspension now.
And then I just gotta go ahead and tighten up
a couple suspension bolts that I left loose,
like the rear spring hanger bolts,
those are still loose,
and then the radius arm bolts are loose upfront here,
and I just gotta tighten everything down,
and then it should be good to go.
Peace.
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- So what you guys just saw is
Brad just finished up installing this BDS system.
So remember, that's a four inch BDS coilover system
that's got the Fox shocks, front and rear,
and then what we're runnin' is
that 20x12 SC-20 Scorpion Off-Road wheel,
and then the 35x13.50 Ridge Grapplers,
so you saw he did a little bit of trimming in the front,
he had to remove some brackets and some metal,
and then he did a little bit of smash and grab back here
to make room because it did rub a little bit,
probably because of that 13 1/2.
I think if it was a 12 1/2, it probably wouldn't have got
into the back here,
but that little bit of extra is probably what's rubbing.
So now we'll take this for a ride with the owner.
See what he thinks of the ride compared to
when it was stock, so we can kinda compare
that stock ride to this new BDS coilover system,
so let's go.
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- I feel like we're so high in the air.
- [Shawn] She's tall.
Is this your first time?
First-timer?
- First lifted truck, ever.
- [Shawn] This is your first lifted truck?
- Yeah. - That's awesome.
- It's always been leveling kits.
- That's super awesome, this ain't no leveling kit.
- No.
- Why don't you head out here, go through that ditch.
So how did it ride stock?
- Really good, was nice and smooth.
- [Shawn] Was it?
- Yeah, I mean for a solid axle.
- Yeah, like Cadillac smooth, or like dump truck smooth?
- Well, not dump truck, but not Cadillac.
- Okay.
Now I'm surprised you went with,
what convinced you coilover system
versus just going with the standard system
and then Fox shocks?
Did they make one for this
that wasn't the coilover?
- Yeah, they do, but I don't know,
I got such a good deal when I bought the truck,
I wanted to build it the way I wanted to build it.
- [Shawn] Yeah, yep.
- You know, I figured I'd do it once.
Like I said, I wanted it to ride smooth
with going camping,
and whenever we go away,
we always take the truck.
You know, this is our nice vehicle.
- Yep.
- So I didn't wanna be ridin' a lumber wagon.
I'm really glad I went
with the dual steering stabilizer, too.
I think that helps a lot.
- Yep.
- Like I said, I really didn't spare any expense
on the lift kit.
I think the only options I didn't choose were
the shock boots and the brake lines.
- Yeah, she scoots, she scoots.
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Did we do a wheelie?
Felt like we might've done a wheelie.
- I think we did a wheelie.
- So as you guys saw,
we took Justin's Super Duty,
we put it four inches up in the air
on a complete coilover system from BDS
with Fox shocks front, rear,
new leaf pack in the back,
and his reaction says it all.
Basically, he feels it rides better
than before it was lifted,
which you don't hear that too often
with a lifted truck.
So we're pretty pumped about it.
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- Peace.
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