Hey suspension guru's!

Here's my dilemma:

I have an '87 F150 w/6" of redneck engineered lift. I know, I know, that's the problem right there (lol). I bought the truck this way and have kicked myself in the **** many a time because of it. Now the wierd thing is the way the lift in the front is setup. It looks nice from the top of the coil down to the bottom of the coil, but where the coil bucket sits is where things get wierd. Under the coil bucket looks to be a 2 1/2"-3" cylinder welded to the bottom of the coil bucket and then tack welded to the TTB axle frame. I have checked high and low around the front suspesion area and have replaced: ball joints(right and left/upper and lower), new wheel bearings, new hubs, brakes, brakelines, pivot arm bushings, tightened up the radius arms (going to install new radius arm bushings sometime this week), new tie rod ends. I still am getting a wierd clunk when turning in either direction or when articulating and the wheel comes down/up or pressure is applied to the opposing tire.

Sometime this week I'm going to be cutting off the coil spring bucket liftblock thing so I can be sure that there is no movement going on there. Is there anything that I'm missing? Maybe new shocks? Maybe I'm having other issues that I have no clue about. Someone help, this has been driving me crazy!

 

On your year truck (I think for E and F series) don't they use those little rectangle blocks with springs, for the calipers? If they are worn, you will get wierd banging sounds from the calipers moving about even when the brakes are not pressed.

If you have checked all the other normal stuff, check the bolt for the pivot in the middle. I forget if the bushing is all metal or metal and rubber, but, that seems like a item that might wear with excessive lift.

 

Roger-dodger! Gotta replace the other one that I still have sitting in my floorboard. i'm hoping that will take care of the clunking noise. There's not much that can move around up there (althought the TTB has a billion more parts then a solid axle).

Thanks for the tip!

Anyone else think of anything?