I'm looking at getting a 77 f250 2wd and was wondering if there was a lift kit avalable? If not I read somewhere that you can flip I-beams upsidedown and get a bunch of lift that way?

 

im wondering this as well...anyone know?

 

Try Autofab, they specialize in 2 wd lifts for these trucks. They are the only company I know of. I had a '76 F100 2wd that I fabbed about a 4" lift on. Turned out pretty good. Mike

 

I'll check them out thanks. I'm still really interested in that Ibeam flip. A few years ago a off-road mag did a story about some guys in florida that do this mod and put 44's on them and mud the heck out of them, I'd really like to know about this mod!

 

Salbert, it would prolly be worth a call to them. I'll bet the could tell you what to do...if it can be done.

 

any updates on this??? hey draglink, what did your fab job intail??? how did you doit?

 

Several have tried the beam flip. AFAIK it does not work. Nobody has come back with working results. Try Autofab etc.

 

not interested in an ibeam flip looks like droping the ibeam braket would be cheaper than autofabs lift kit. not every one has 700 laying around. wish i did though cause what they offer looks good. there has to be a way to fab something on our own. there are too many 2wd lift questions that someone has had to try something that worked. hard work is nothing to do if its what you want to do. looks like it would be simple enough to fab something.

 

On junkyard wars a couple years ago some guys did the Ibeam flip. The alignment was WAY off, but I would think that if you heated the arms and bent them it would be fine.

 

Well I know its not a suspension lift but right now I'm in the process of putting a 3 inch body lift on my 73 F-100 2X4 so I can put on 32 inch tires. Everything was meant for a 86 Dodge 4X4 I trashed but my Ford Tech buddy is helping me retro fit it.

 

That was my thought too. Maybe create a jig of some sort to help you get the alignment right, but from what I've read on street rods, when they wanted to do the reverse and lower a 32 ford with a drop axle, it was achieved by heating up and beating the hell out of the axle to bend it... however I'm not sure if this back yard work was successful or if it was more akin to cutting the springs on your Del Sol.

I had an article on it, but I'm 1,000 miles away from my stash of magazines, so I don't have the leasure of browsing through them.

My main worry with the tactic though is the end pivot of the eye beam, is that something to wory about? It'd mount upside down, and I'm not sure if that would add extra stress or not.