Truck looks great! Just wondering why not get a Carli Pintop kit? Its only 1" less travel in the front than you want, at 10 inches, and 12 inches of travel in the rear. Plus the kits ride amazing on and off the road. I had a 2011 F350 with the kit and miss the way that truck rides everyday lol.

 

Carli is a great company, but I am looking for something a little more custom, and their setup is stuck within the constraints of it needing to be a bolt-on installation. For $1600 I can get two King 12" travel internal bypass shocks with reservoirs, and the reservoirs will have the compression adjusters also. It will take a custom fabricated upper mount, but it will give me a superior set of shocks to the Carli pintop setup. My setup will have fully adjustable valving for the 2 stages inside the shock for compression and rebound, plus an adjuster for fine tuning compression for on or off road conditions. I'll use limit straps to limit the down travel. I should be able to get a little bit of air and have it take off land smoothly.

 

Makes sense. I wish I could just travel down to King and get custom shocks! I cant wait to see it completed!

 

sorry for being lame but do you mean its the exact same size(diameter and hole) but thicker?

 

Yes just a heavier duty hardened washer.

 

Perfect thks.. Gonna go pick up the stabilizer soon

 

Yesterday I was able to pick up some AMP Research power steps, Bushwacker fender flares, and some factory Ford rear fender liners. Hopefully I can get some of that installed today!

 

BigAaron,
Are you happy with PAC wiring harnesses & interfaces?
Alpine has a unit with a wireless Apple CarPlay feature that I'm looking to install.
CBE

 

I haven't installed it yet but it seems pretty nice overall. I got the optional optical digital output to interface with my TwK88, which means just one audio cable needed from the front to the back.

 

Today I slept in till 11am, now it's time to get to work LOL
New rear fender liners, factory Ford parts. Why they aren't standard equipment I have no idea!
The rear wheel well scream for fender liners to be installed!
Here's how she looks this morning before the Amp power side steps and fender flares and rear fender liners get installed.

 

Rear fender liners were like a 5-minute installation, it took me longer to find a 7mm socket than it did to install both liners LOL

 

Unfortunately fender flares are not going on tonight, they gave me the wrong damn year, that was a two-and-a-half-hour drive there and back in traffic too! On to the power steps now

 

If AMP can call this "plug and play", I would hate to see what they would call "some assembly required". LOL

 

Here's with the stock steps removed

 

AMP power steps installed!