Vancouver Bob
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After spending months looking at what others have done to their Expeditions I've finally decided to take the leap and go for the lift, bigger wheels and tires, and a new front bumper. Go for that Off Roader look. I don't get on the trail, although I think I could get into that, but do LOVE driving on the beach and in the sand.
Decided to start off with getting a new bumper so have that on order with WAM. They say all the parts are in and that fab starts this week. Promised me some pictures as they go so I'm excited to see the first one.
While waiting for the bumper I wanted to get her back up to factor ride height so putting on new shocks/struts and springs and figured I'd do the lift all at the same time. Decided to just go with a standard setup of individual springs and shocks/struts vs the assemblies. Primarily because I wanted to upgrade the shocks/struts a bit. Got my eBay lift kit and all the parts I need. Was hoping to find the bottom spring seats so that I could pre-assemble the set and then just swap out the old with the new but I couldn't find anyone that sold them. The instructions that came with the shocks indicated I need to use the old spring seats but it worries me a bit when I don't see anyone selling them and when I look at the shock/strut on the Ford parts diagrams they appear to come with the bottom seats attached. Anyone know if I'm in trouble already or will the old ones come off as promised by Bilstein? If all goes well I'll get these put on this weekend (although I'm thinking of what some of you have said about just paying someone $100 to do it for me and save my weekend. I'll call a couple of places and see what they would charge. I do enjoy doing my own automotive work when I can so wouldn't mind doing it but the springs worry me a bit. The Harbor Freight clam shell type spring compressor I have worked well with the Subaru springs but the Expedition springs are in a whole different league.
Decided to start off with getting a new bumper so have that on order with WAM. They say all the parts are in and that fab starts this week. Promised me some pictures as they go so I'm excited to see the first one.
While waiting for the bumper I wanted to get her back up to factor ride height so putting on new shocks/struts and springs and figured I'd do the lift all at the same time. Decided to just go with a standard setup of individual springs and shocks/struts vs the assemblies. Primarily because I wanted to upgrade the shocks/struts a bit. Got my eBay lift kit and all the parts I need. Was hoping to find the bottom spring seats so that I could pre-assemble the set and then just swap out the old with the new but I couldn't find anyone that sold them. The instructions that came with the shocks indicated I need to use the old spring seats but it worries me a bit when I don't see anyone selling them and when I look at the shock/strut on the Ford parts diagrams they appear to come with the bottom seats attached. Anyone know if I'm in trouble already or will the old ones come off as promised by Bilstein? If all goes well I'll get these put on this weekend (although I'm thinking of what some of you have said about just paying someone $100 to do it for me and save my weekend. I'll call a couple of places and see what they would charge. I do enjoy doing my own automotive work when I can so wouldn't mind doing it but the springs worry me a bit. The Harbor Freight clam shell type spring compressor I have worked well with the Subaru springs but the Expedition springs are in a whole different league.
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