highboy question...
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highboy question...
well i just was wondering how can you visually tell the difference between a highboy and a lowboy frame? my truck is a supposed 78 f150. but it doesn't look stock height. there isn't a lift on it as far as i know. i was thinking that it might have had a frame swap somewhere down the line. so is there any measurable difference between a highboy and a lowboy truck?
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I am 100% sure What I call a highboy sits higher than a 77.5 to 79 with no lift. Also sure no ford ever came off the assembly line with a body lift. I doubt seriously if you could have ever gotten a dealer installed body lift.
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i will tell you what i THINK is right
im not going to argue with you
from what i know and from what i have researched 77 and down didnt have the the extra 2 inches
the body lift witch made it a lowboy
lift kits are made for lowboys not highboys
at least from what i have come across and heard from others
plus my highboy sits just perfect with the stock factory height
im not going to argue with you
from what i know and from what i have researched 77 and down didnt have the the extra 2 inches
the body lift witch made it a lowboy
lift kits are made for lowboys not highboys
at least from what i have come across and heard from others
plus my highboy sits just perfect with the stock factory height
Shane:
Whats the deal dude? A few of your patest posts have been way off the mark.
Not only incorrect but just off the chart.
Perhaps instead of throwing some names out, and spreading some incorrect info that can be confused as fact, throw some data out there.
How about a pic of a factory 2 inch body lift?
You might have a difficult time with this, because the factory never installed a "body lift".
Perhaps the terms are being confused, or used in the wrong fashion, but you speak of this as gospel, and it is incorrect.
67 to early year 77 trucks were higher than the late 77 to 79 trucks.
Competitor (chebby) trucks had been using softer springs since 73 and the step in height was lower. Ford had to do something, and the positive arch spring was ditched in place of a flat neg arch unit. This resulted in roughly a 4 inch difference in overall height.
This was not because any truck had any factory lifts or anything fancy. This was simply because the factory height was different from the early to late models.
So the early and later trucks did have different ride heights, and they did have different frames, but were factory trucks and did not include "body lifts".
The guys were trying to explain this in 'not so many words'.
