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- Hello, everyone.
Brad here with Custom Offsets,
got an episode of Lifts and Levels.
This is gonna be a fancy pants kit here.
This is a BDS six inch coil over kit.
This is gonna be for a 2011 to 2016
Super Duty Ford trucks, F-250, F-350.
This is, like I said, coil over kit,
so you've got your coil overs up front.
We're replacing, we're gonna completely remove the factory
coil springs and buckets,
Ah, I guess you're gonna leave the top bucket.
We'll remove the factory coil springs;
they get replaced with these FOX 2.5 coil overs
and they come with some new bracketry
to get everything mounted in there,
cause obviously these trucks were
never designed to run coil springs.
So you basically have this top coil spring mount,
which you drill and then bolt into the factory bucket
and the new coil over will mount inside here
and there's some brackets that go on the bottom
that actually bolt right to the axle.
To mount the coil overs up front,
we're gonna be replacing the factory radius arms
with these individual control arms here.
That's why this is called a control arm kit,
because you have these four individual control arms
for the front axle.
It gives you basically...
It allows you, they're obviously gonna be longer than
the factory radius arms and all that,
So to keep that front axle centered under the truck,
and also allows you more control over the axle
in terms of how you wanna roll the axle
for camber or set castor,
anything like that,
and then although we do have the 2.5 coil overs up front,
we're still gonna actually run shocks up front as well
along side of the coil overs for some extra dampening
capability 'cause these trucks are quite heavy.
And then obviously, this finish, I didn't mention this but,
this is not BDS finish,
this one we had custom powder coated.
This is sandy beach, is that what it was?
Sandy beach.
it's kinda a cool textured finish but anyway.
So, then up front we've also got
the track-bar relocation bracket here,
as well as a new adjustable heavy-duty track-bar
which is over there, taken apart.
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And then, all these.
Just a bunch of brackets here,
these are gonna be for the control arm brackets.
They basically move everything down
and have everything at a good level.
Lots of hardware as you can see.
This truck's getting the recoil series traction bars as well
so that's what these brackets are gonna be here,
these bolt to the axle,
then the traction bar can bolt off of this new Pittman arm,
drop Pittman arm up front,
and then this one's getting dual FOX steering stabilizers.
This truck's getting everything pretty much.
Everything that BDS offers,
this truck is pretty much gonna get.
And, is there really anything else?
It's gonna get FOX shocks in the back,
new leaf springs in the back,
no blocks in the back on this one,
I do not believe,
and then new U-bolts, top plates, everything.
I think that's it.
It's kinda weird when it's laid out on the ground like this,
'cause I just bounce all around.
But yeah, that's it.
We're gonna go.
This is a big build we're gonna do this weekend,
and unfortunately I actually have to be here,
so that sucks but yeah.
Signing off, peace.
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- Alright guys, so this is the six inch BDS coil over system
we gotta install on the truck, here.
We're on kinda a tight deadline,
so it's not gonna go back up in the air to film this.
You can pretty much see everything on the kit
from the ground anyways so it should work out fine.
I guess we'll start with the heart of the system,
is gonna be the fore-link control arm design here,
as you can see, this is gonna replace the factory
radius arms so you're not gonna be dropping
factory radius arms or anything like that.
You've actually got a knock off factory radius arm brackets
and then you're gonna get these new
BDS DOM link arms in place.
So you have a four-link system,
which really helps you dial in the castor on the axle
and it will actually help you
if you ever decide to go off-roading,
help the axle articulate a little bit better.
So, you've got your fore-link system here,
this is gonna be a coil over kit.
So we got FOX 2.5 coil overs up front
and then FOX 2.0 shock up front as well
to help with the dampening for this big heavy truck,
somebody can use the extra dampening,
so no more coil spring anymore.
You take the coil spring out,
you have to cut the factory retainer up top
and then install the brackets here for the coil overs
and then it also just bolts in place
on the bottom of the axle there.
So another big key to lifting these trucks properly is
keeping the axle centered, left to right
and to do that, BDS uses their track bar drop bracket,
which you can see here,
replaces the factory track bar bracket,
relocates it by bringing it down
and they also give you their nice heavy duty,
adjustable front track bar.
So you can actually dial in your axle center to center
under the truck and basically set it at ride height,
get it perfectly centered.
These trucks aren't perfect from the factory to begin with,
so the adjustability is a really nice piece
and then another one, another very important piece,
is the Pittman arm drop.
You'll see the original Pittman arm,
which we actually have over there, is flat.
This one here is dropped heavily,
and that's a similar hang over between the track bar and
the Pittman arm to help prevent any bump steer scenarios,
and then the front sway bar gets dropped down here
with brackets rather than using extended links,
which is nice so then you can always replace
the links with factory links.
You don't have to worry about getting any special links.
And then as you can see up front,
this one has the dual stabilizer.
This is gonna be FOX 2.0 dual stabilizer setup,
which is a really nice setup.
You're gonna be running bigger tires,
help keep the tires under control.
As far as up front, that's pretty much it for the lift.
You don't have to do anything with the drive shaft
on these Super Duty's.
The 17s and up, the aluminum trucks,
they actually switched the drive shaft style,
no longer is it double cardan driveshaft.
So anything, I think it's over six inches,
you actually have to get a new drive shaft
or clock the transfer case,
but not on up to 2016 Super Dutys,
you don't have to worry about that, which is nice.
So on the back, usually the kit will just come with
blocks for the rear,
but on this one, we upgraded
to the leaf spring pack in the rear
and you retain the factory block.
These trucks have two different sized rear blocks
from the factory; two inch, or three and a half.
You need to know which ones you have,
so BDS can send you the right length U-bolts for the rear.
This particular truck has three and a half inch
factory blocks, so they'll stay there,
and they use the new leaf spring
on top of them to lift the truck
and you can see with the three and half inch blocks,
it's a very level stance.
So, if you have two inch blocks,
you may have a little bit of a tail-low stance,
or a sag, or a squat look.
Some people like that though.
So just know you need to measure
and get the right size when you order.
And then we rounded off 2.05 FOX shocks
in the rear as well of course.
There's a brake line relocation bracket down here
on the axle so you're not
over-extending the factory brake lines.
And then, we also did the recoil
traction bars on this truck,
you can see them here.
They are BDS' newest line of traction bars.
They actually have a dampening rod and spring inside them,
which is nice so they don't ride terribly,
like a normal single point traction bar would.
So those are a really nice touch
especially on diesel trucks with more power
and bigger wheels and tires,
prevent any chance of axle-wrap.
So that's a nice way to round it off,
and then other than that, that should be it for this truck.
But anyways, that's gonna be the BDS six inch
coil over system for F-250 and F-350 trucks.
Bye.
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