Big Red This was one of those trucks where the guy didn’t care how much money he spend, just as long as he had a sweet ride that could crawl and plow through anything. When the truck came in it was sitting on 33” tires and a couple modified engine parts. When it left it was sitting on a 6” Procomp lift kit, 3” body lift kit, 38” Super Swamper Thornbird tires, locked front and rear difs, and lowered gear ratios. His F150 was now ready to conquer all terrains. On top of the hoist the truck began its transformation. John began work on the front end, this was the process in which he took apart the whole front end. The parts were removed so that the new gears and locker could be placed inside. These new parts were Yukon 4.88 ratio gears and a power locker. The front-end was then sandblasted and repainted in our painting booth. After it was reassembled the front suspension was now going to be modified. Since the truck was going to be raised up so high, the brake lines were going to have to be extended. We did this by removing the stock lines and adding a set of Procomp stainless steel brake lines. The original coils and shocks were removed and the new much longer coils were replaced. The Fords single shocks were replaced with duel Procomp Es3000 shocks. This was then followed by adding the extended radius arms. The customer decided he wanted us to make him two new springs. So the springs were taken out and the new ones were built. His new springs were going to eliminate his rear block. They were going to give him more travel and a couple great looking springs. The leafs were diamond cut and Derlin anti-friction pads were inserted on the ends of the leafs. The shocks were removed and replaced with the procomp Es models. It was now time to pull the rear end apart. The stock gears were pulled out and replaced with a set of 4.88 ratio. Then the detroit locker was placed in and the rear end was filled with gear oil. His new lift kit made it possible for him to accomadate bigger tires, thus increasing it’s ground clearance. He chose to go with lockers so that he could do the mucky 4x4ing. He also chose to lower the gears because the big tires would off set his power, so we chose a gear ratio that would be close enough to his stock gears. Reducing the gear ratio in the truck ellimated any power loss that would of accured with the much larger tires. Then it was time for the truck to be booted out of the shop and the next one sent in. See more of our Custom Work >>

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