- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets.
Got another episode, lifts and levels for you.
This is gonna be another BDS kit.
This is a four inch system for 2017 to 2019,
F250 and F350 Super duty.
This is the four inch radius arm kit,
I should specify.
'Cause there's a couple four inch kits.
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All right so we got the four inch kit.
It's kinda sprawled about.
We'll go through the components.
There's some optional accessories in this kit
and we'll talk about all those things as well.
First things first, we got the new massive radius arms
for this kit.
They're gonna replace the factory stamped radius arms
with these really nice tubular arms.
Super beefy, super heavy, super strong.
That's good stuff there.
They also, of course have the little,
they're gonna have the cam adjuster in here,
so you can adjust the caster angle,
a little bit, and the bottom of the arm here.
And then these are obviously engineered
for the four inch kit.
So these will move the axle around
and put it in the proper position.
You'll notice here as well, this is a new track bar,
this is the optional BDS adjustable track bar.
It's not needed.
You can reuse the factory track bar
and it gets relocated using this here,
which is the relocation bracket for the factory track bar.
But this particular customer wanted the adjustability
of the adjustable track bar.
And what this allows you to do is, you know,
you can thread it in and out and this basically,
you can set your exact axle exactly how you want it,
left or right, under the truck, so it's perfect.
And if you choose to maybe go up a little higher,
you can actually reuse this and adjust it
and still have everything squared up under the truck.
So that's a very nice little feature there.
Once again it is optional, not required.
Got the jack bar bracket here.
New pitman arm as well.
You're gonna see that this is about a four inch drop here.
Just doin' a little eyeball measurement.
So you got a four inch drop on the Pitman arm.
Got some sway, or a sorry excuse me,
bump stop relocation brackets.
Those are gonna be about a four inch drop as well.
And then sway bar drop brackets
and then these are a little longer.
These are about 4 3/4 inches of drop.
But not only does it drop it, as you'll notice,
it actually moves the sway bar as well.
So that's gonna be a key component.
So brake line relocation brackets here.
Some more hardware.
And then we got these massive springs right here.
Now BDS makes different springs,
whether you have the gas engine or the diesel engine.
So you need to specify that.
These ones are gonna be for the diesel engine
and obviously they're gonna be a heavier spring rate
for the diesel engine because it is the heavier truck.
And so that's why that's important to have
and that pretty much rounds out most of the lift kit.
The rear is gonna be simply lifted by blocks.
You can see that these are nicely fabricated blocks.
They're not a cast block or anything like that.
And they have the bump stop wings here,
that's what these are for.
And these are gonna measure about five inches or so,
a little over 5 1/4 inches about.
Now these trucks have all different configurations
in the rear, whither they have,
different sized blocks in the rear.
They have your top mounted overload springs.
Then some of them don't
have the top mounted overload springs.
And all that's gonna change the rear box configuration
of this lift kit.
So it's important to know that.
This is an F350 so it's gonna have
the top mounted overload leaf spring on there.
And then the little spacer block between that.
So because of that you're gonna see that these U-bolts
that this kit comes with are massive, they're super long.
And BDS will ask you that when
you are ordering this product.
On our website we ask you that as well.
What configuration you have for the rear springs.
So it's very important to know that whether
you have the top mounted overloads or not.
F250's usually do not have them.
But they can depending on what options the truck came with.
If it had a camper bed package or something like that.
And then we also have the optional Fox shocks as well
for the rear, the front.
And then we got dual Fox steering stabilizers.
And then this is gonna be the back bracketry
for the steering stabilizer.
This part here will bolt around the axle,
you'll see there's a radius here that will fit on
the axle tube itself.
Then the stabilizers will mount to this here.
And then i got some more brackets over here.
That will then bolt on to the tie rod.
And that will finish it off.
Some hardware for that as well.
And that's gonna be pretty much everything here.
As you can see there's a lot of shocks going,
a lot of Fox shocks here.
And that's gonna be the four inch radius arm system.
We're gonna go ahead and get it installed
and we'll check back on the truck once
we've got everything installed.
All right guys we've got the four inch BDS kit installed
on the truck here.
Remember this is the radius arm kit.
We'll get started right away.
And as you can see new BDS arms are right
here installed on the truck.
They're a massive improvement over the factory stamped ones
for their strength and the adjustability on them.
We've got the new coil springs in here on the truck.
These are BDS design and BDS rate for the engine.
So remember they have a diferent spring rate
for the gas or diesel engine.
Fox shocks up here.
The 2.0 series that BDS offers.
We've got our sway bar drop brackets as you can see.
It actually moves the sway bar backwards slightly,
a little bit.
And then obviously down as well.
Moving on to some of the other front end components.
Gotta move that.
One of the key components is always gonna be
the track bar drop bracket,
which Ketan will have to pan around here.
Track bar relocation bracket, or drop bracket,
or whatever you want to call it,
which is this piece right here, replaces the.
Replaces the factory track bar bracket,
which is this cast piece here,
with that new fabricated piece of steel.
And what that does is,
that will center the axle from left
and right under the truck once it's lifted down.
Now remember this customer did get
the optional adjustable track bar,
which you can see here as well.
But it's, like I said, completely not nessasary.
And then we got the pitman arm drop here,
the drop pitman arm as well for the four inch system.
They use the same one in the larger systems as well.
And what else?
We got the dual Fox steering stabilizer.
Remember this is optional.
You can reuse the factory steering stabilizer on these kits.
And that pretty much rounds out the front of the truck.
Nothing else is needed up there.
Going around to the back
we got simple new blocks in the back, larger blocks.
And then the new larger U-bolts as well.
Fox 2.0 series shocks in the rear
and really that's about it.
Gonna be the four inch BDS system for F250,
F350 Super duty, 17 and up.
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