I have a 96 F150 4x4 straight 6 with 5spd, with 33x9 BFgoodwritch tires on it.

I heard that i can easily lift the truck by installing F250 or F350 springs and leafs on it. Get the parts from the junkers and slap the parts on the truck, and you have a few inches lift. I don't know if that will work.. .sounds reasonable..

I also have problems with my steering box (lose, i hear knocking when starting out from a stop) and my ball joints are blown as well as my shocks. I only have 85 000 km on it! Previous owner musta treated it like #####. Are these parts hard to replace?.. I am somewhat mechanically inclined and have most tools. Would i be able to do it in my garage or is it better for a professional to do this?

I am also want to change the rear setup.. its all open currently. I need to do something about that. I am not too fimiliar with what geasr would be ideal. I use the truck in city mostly as well as highway. I want to be able to get into mud and out of it! Something with good gas mileage. I am getting about 250km per tank (50liters) umm im not sure what the is in miles.. (20L/100km or 11.87Miles/Gallon)if my conversion is correct. I don't think that is normal.

I am a student so any cheap but good fixes/ideas would really help.
I would appreciate any response and opinions on this.
Please help out.

 

If you put the 250 springs on there you will only get 2-3 inches of lift. You are only lifting it because the springs are stronger, not taller, so your ride will stiffen up and be pretty harsh because your not putting a lot of weight on those springs. You can get coil springs for about 150-200 dollars, I just got a 4" superlift kit for 700 shipped. Comes with 4 new shocks, coils, radius arm brackets, axle pivot brackets, pitman arm, rear blocks with new U-bolts and all the grade-8 hardware needed. That is a much better thing to do then putting on f-250 springs. The shocks you can replace yourself, but if you are going to lift you truck, you need to get longer shocks, so decide if you are going to lift it before you buy the shocks. I don't know if you can do the steering box or not. Depends on what your trying to do, replace it or fix it? Good luck with your rig.

95 F-150 2wd Extended Cab Eddie Bauer
4" Superlift Suspension
Gibson Cat-back on 300ci I-6
Ram Air-MSD Ignition-32 BFGs
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For the rear end i'd say you wouldn't want to go over 3.73's for gears if you want to keep some what good gas milage. I have the stock posi in my truck and its gotten me through quite a bit of mud. it slips a bit when in the heavy rocks with tires off the ground, but i don't do much of that anyhow. You also could go with a locker but unless you want to go to an air locker it is not the best option for street driving. Do NOT go with a spool, had a friend who did and he broke tons of axle shafts with a lot of onstreet driving. THe Trac-Lok, Fords posi, on street driving is excellent. Don't forget that if you change rear gears you must change the front too. Good luck and have fun with it.

Ryan
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blocks on the rear would work well and be cheap, but the front is expensive. a body lift would also work, I have a set of front coil lift springs for one of these trucks, e-mail me if you need them, I don't
cheyenne98@erols.com
Bill