My office garage is 6'5". My truck originally barely scraped the clearance bar (hanging on chains) when I first bought it and the antenna definitely hits the bar and signage in the garage - even today. Based on other forum input, I lowered the rear of the truck with 3-inch shorter struts and...
Clarification - my instructions say that using two 5/8 (16mm) steel rings shortens the strut either 1 inch or 1.5 inches depending on what you are comparing to (MY 04-08 or MY 09-12 F150). Did you measure, or were you just looking at the charts that come with the Belltech 25001?
Also, did you...
This. I've been surpised by the negative camber and tried to photograph it. I am likely to add the spacers as suggested by the OP and will report back afterwards:
Photo of negative camber after 3" strut shortening:
Yeah - I would not want the squat for sure. I agree that the rear is now about 2 inches lower. I was looking to reduce the overall height of the truck by at least 1 inch, which I achieved. I think the truck might look better if the overall height was a little taller than my currently modified...
Ok - finally reporting on my experience. I had my local shop do this a few days ago and I have been testing it out since. Major findings:
Shop labor was 3.5 hours. About what I expected but I was surprised how much labor rates have risen in the last few years (used to be only lawyers could...
I'm super excited to see this post and I have been following it daily. My parking garage at work is 77 inches and my XLT just barely touches the entrance "height check" bar every time I park here. Fortunately, the garage seems to be several inches taller than 77 once I am past the entrance...
This discussion is super helpful. I have had the same puzzling behavior in my XLT and now I will try the door unlock trick. I agree it's a dumb choice that you cannot close the frunk with the button when the doors are locked.
All of the advertised numbers are best case clearly. I just did my first big trip in my XLT SR across i90 in Washington. The Ford app calculated my first stop at 15 minutes in Ellensburg for a fast charge. That experience took nearly 1 hour between my wait for a charger, and the fact that 2 of...