Lifted Expeditions of EF.com (picture post)

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SnuffThePunkz

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Was doing a delivery right next to my tire shop so I walked over and ******** with him. He's pretty certain he's got a set of 20's from like 10 years ago buried in the back. Told me to hit him up next week, as I quote "They are literally behind over 1000 other rims". So that might we'll have been taken care of.

Cleaned all the wife and kids crap out of the truck to get ready for body lift tomorrow and mocked up the tires...

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Found a tiny plug in one of them that I missed last night, I'll get my guys to grind it out and do a proper patch come mounting.
 

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What a day. Lift went pretty smooth, spun the driver's foot well body mount, grabbed it with vice grips and a pry bar and it impacted out. Sheared the passenger rad bolt, insanely lucky that the nut on the other end was tighter than the body mount sleeve and walked the bolt out.

Honest to God biggest PITA was the fan shroud, that thing did not want to work, lost almost an hour to getting that alone.

Teaser photo as I lost light.

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More tomorrow (ugh, I guess today), and 37's hopefully next week.
 

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What a day. Lift went pretty smooth, spun the driver's foot well body mount, grabbed it with vice grips and a pry bar and it impacted out. Sheared the passenger rad bolt, insanely lucky that the nut on the other end was tighter than the body mount sleeve and walked the bolt out.

Honest to God biggest PITA was the fan shroud, that thing did not want to work, lost almost an hour to getting that alone.

Teaser photo as I lost light.

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More tomorrow (ugh, I guess today), and 37's hopefully next week.

What did you have to do to the fan shroud? Does the kit come with an extension, or did you have to cut it?

I'm on the fence on whether I should buy the kit and do it myself or drop it off ans have it done.
 

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Basically they wrote the instructions for the fan shroud like shit.

They tell you to loosen it and let it hang on the fan, then lift your truck and come back to it later, and only include the info deep in the instructions on how to modify it in the step for removing the rad.

They provide drop brackets to hang it in line with the new location of the fan.

You have to cut (or break as I did, fiberglass) the bottom tabs that hold the bottom of the shroud into the clips on the rad. Then they have a bracket for which you are supposed to drill a hole through the bottom of the shroud and support it via the bottom of the rad.

My shroud is so jammed against hard lines for my trans/power steering coolers that the bracket wasn't necessary.

It felt like it could have been handled differently/better.

If I were to do it again, I'd first loosen the clutch fan then remove it with the shroud and modify the shroud outside the truck, but the way it was written it was only for extreme situations.

They also have a parts where you take off the power steering cooler... I didn't, but there was no real reason to do that. So why?
 

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I haven't no. He was rolling on them the day I bought them. What were you thinking?

Edit: though I think they are going to sit for a while. Can't for the life of me find a set of 20's for less than I paid for the ******* truck.

Might order some military 37's and 8 bolt adapters and run those on my 16.5" OBS rims for now.
 
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