Mod #2 - 2001 F350 Project - 2” Leveling Kit install LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2018
- Fell asleep editing the video till 4am haha, forgot to schedule the video at 10:00 as promised. Love the leveled look, it looks much better, amazing how only 2" and $60 can change the look of the truck so good. The dually fenders i still could not find good condition in white, so i think im going to use the ones i have right now, fix some cracks on them and use them while keeping an eye out for good ones, i really dont want to repaint them so i just have to be patient for white ones to pop up.
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•REPAIRS
New wheel - $310
New tire - $130
F350 Pair of leaf springs - $240
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Driver dually fender - $450
Driver dually fender refund - (-$400)
Taillight - $20
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Tailgate Assist kit - $50
2" level kit - $60
2 batteries - $300 (install vid coming soon)
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RiffRaff Intake kit - $100 (install vid coming soon)
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Major props for letting Matthew help out. My dad did the same with his tractor trailers when I was Matthew's age. Memories I'll never forget. Got the truck looking better each vid!
Thanks sir, now that Silverado is mostly done I still have to finish up the shed build and then it will be all F350 fun lol
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Always nice to have a great helper! Hats off to Matthew! :)
He said thx bro lol
That leveling kit makes the truck look amazing
Thx I agree, only $60 and huge difference
Thanks for the great video. Im doing a leveling kit for my f250 soon and your truck looks exactly what I am looking for.
Thx bro, yea the 2” seems perfect
It's really good how it's going, and also good that you involved your son on the project, that's awesome
Thank you
Thanks for making this. Cool you got your kid out there helping. Kit looks killer.
Amazing video man!! Thanks for the share. Doing mine right now. Great music too!!
Always good to have little extra help 😉
I was going to do it myself but now I won't. Those 2 inches made the difference. Great job!
Love this type of videos keep it up nick 👌
Thank you appreciate it
much better now!! great job, I'm going to do the same in mine. Thanks for sharing!
Thx bro
Thanks for the vid man. Gave me the inspiration to do the same to my 01 today. Biggest pain was lining up the second spring with the seat. I understand what the chain tackle rig was for.
Tell me about it lol... I’ll buy an-adjustable pan bar probably, leveling shifts front axle little
FixItNick I was wondering about that with mine, but I took a leaf out and only went with 1.5 inches. If it did shift, it it must not be much because I can’t see any difference. And yeah, lining up the second spring mount took me like an hour and four ratchet straps.
Yeah, these are the questions I had. I'm here to see what unforeseeable problems there may be. This video has no explanations and the time lapse makes it pointless. I know the kit levels the truck, that's why I bought it. I have to complete the project in 1 day by myself. Can I do that? I'll have to look elsewhere to determine that answer.
Great video as always
Looks good! Just need to get some fender flares for the duals now!
Great video and great editing!!! thank you
Thank you
Looks way better and also looks perfect to me also
Great video! I appreciate how easy you made it look!
You should move to some place like Indiana where you don't need so many stupid inspections.
Thanks!
Thanks bro! Yea CA sucks, I love living here but hate the stupid mumbo jumbo!! I want to have a main address somewhere else lol
Great job as always 👌
Thx bro
Looks even now better
Thanks,
Nice work matthew! nice easy install. i cut the bolts too. it just looks like a nicer install when they are not hanging down too far. wonder how it will look when you put the dually fenders back on since they are a lower opening around the wheel than the bed cut out is. can wait for the next video on this truck.
Matthew said thx bro! Lol ... got a pair of white fenders for me??? The 2 I have are busted but I might just repair the cracks for now and install what I have while looking for good white ones
matthew is one cool little helper! i dont have a set of fenders but i will keep my eyes open for some.
Looks so much better awesome job
Thx zac
Great work..great video.. truck looks RIGHT !
Thank you
I like you’re job bro >> Good luck 👍🏻
Thx man
Watching your kid mimic you and stop once he bumps you.. “ subscribed” haha
Hahaha thanks he has a blast to bad he can only do few little things
LOOKS GREAT !!
hope you remembered to reattach the sway bar end links.
Nope not yet but I have it noted to not forget lol
Fckkk ittttt
Very Straightforward and looks great.
i LIKE YOUR HELPER , GOOD WORKER!
thanks for the video, I have a 2004 and was thinking about doing this! I bought mine new so I know what it is and I only have 95k miles on it!
It’s worth the $60 if you do the work yourself, will look much better
Nice video bro truck looking good
Thank you
Congratulations on the project.
Thx bro
Your kiddo is adorable bro
Thx bro
Nice rig man!
Do you place your floor jacks on either side of diff?
Nice job man, Now it looks great , but after this the truck needs alignment??
Thumbs up on the new truck mod as well as the new cat.
Thank you
Hey man just curious how long did it take you to complete the install? I want to install mine but I don't have a lot of time to install it
nice! I did the same thing on my Excursion with a 6.0 PSD. aligning the lift blocks with the rachet straps were kinda time consuming.
Did you change pan bar?
FixItNick no I didn't.
is it possible to add slightly bigger tires to get another inch rise on your truck now? I'm ask because I have a 2000 Excursion I would like to get about 3 " higher.
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Well done Nick. Don't let the Cat run away while the wife is away. Nice to see Matthew help out.
Haha yup or I’ll be living in one of the sheds
Great video Nick, Thanks!
Thanks
Have you heard of Sulastic springs?
For the front they have a kit that gives it a two inch lift, and it also helps your truck ride 1,000% better! They mount in between one end of your leafs and the frame mount and don't affect your capacity. Not cheap, but quality costs
Looks great
Nice video... I think to put on at my Excursion 3inch but we will see 💪
With stock shock 2.5 is about max I think
Looks good bro
Thx bro
Great video gotta do this to my 99 f250!
Do it looks much better
There is also a leveling kit that is much easier to install, it's just an extra leaf in the front springs. I installed the same kit on my 99 F250 and my 02 F350, it doesn't stiffen the ride and levels it out really nice. Just an FYI.
Thanks, where did you buy the from leaf? I was thinking maybe swap blocks to a leaf
did you have to get a longer track bar or leave it unhooked from the sway bar
Love it man
Thx
Love the video and the tutorial , I have one question . Is that leveling kit only for the four-wheel drive model?
Yes, two wheel drive f250s & f350s doesn't have leaf springs.
Thanks for video!
Dont forget to adjust your alignment... Its only a 2" leveling kit, but i guarantee (had to get my 04 aligned after mine) your alignments off.
Looks good.
Thank you, the alignment doesn’t change with solid axle levels, but I’ll do alignment regardless
@@FixItNick My 04 has a SA, an it was off afterwards. Not by much tho. I put a a strip of tape at the top of my steering wheel, an iirc...it was off by about 3/4 or 7/8. It didnt pull the front drastically or nothin.. just enough where it drove me nuts more an more i thought about it.
Noothin like a 7.3 i love mine
Same here bro!!
Little too fast for my novice abilities but nice to watch. What are your jack stand points? The arms?
loved it so cool
Thx bro
Looks good!!!!!!!!
Thx sir
Beautiful kitty
Looks good
I love it! Maybe do some 33 inch tires !
Thx man, I’ll upgrade later but still have lots of other stuff coming up
Did you have to get longer vacuum hoses brake hoses etc?
I love this f3fitty build!😂🤘🏼🤠🤘🏼🇺🇸🤤😍
Thx bro, I’m hoping to do 4” exhaust soon after pass smog and DMV Stuff
Truck looks good! Im thinking of getting a 3" level for my e99
Thank you, with 3” nose might be to high
@@FixItNick ya idk. It should be here wednesday. I will let you know how it goes
@@MrMetalliholic how'd it go?
How bad out of alignment was it after?
Leveled looks way better ! How are the Pittsburgh jacks working ?Looking to pick one up , Is that camper a new toy ?
I had those for a few years so far love them, especially the light weight. The RV is parents they park it here
I think it looks great
looks good
Did it change the ride characteristics , rougher ride or more sway that you noticed Nick. Thank you for your 7.3 content! Any injector upgrades in the future?
Not really at all, 4” lift tho more bouncy
Mine just came in the mail for my 02 f250. Thanks for the video!!
Question, what is that chain for, I dont have that.
Also how do you know your axle is going back into the exact same spot?
Chain is for pulling the axle to the side a little to make it fit under the leafs. Leafs and panbar is what keeps the axle place, but with a leveling kit it actUlly moves axle so the side a little, I’ll have to get adjustable panbar later on tonperfectly center the axle
@@FixItNick seriously? Moves it to the side even with just those 2 spacers? Ah damn. Tomorrow I'm rewiring the 4x4 part of my truck, something happened and shorted out the relay box and melted the relays, and while working on it was thinking of doing the lift too. Didnt seem too hard until you got that chain in there, all i have is ratchet straps which could work I guess lol
@@FixItNick hey, only took 3 years, but I finally got around to actually installing mine, watched your video for a couple references during. Was actually a bigger pain in the butt than we thought to install it, but we got it. Exact kit you did. Next weekend is gonna be the pan bar since the lift itself took longer than we thought. Thank you for the video and input!
sway bars not put back on. will they not reach?
Can't wait for bed led kit
Me too, I think it would be a cool little install
I have them on my 2006 chevy great upgrade and easy to install yourself not plugging anybody but look into opt7 lights a little pricey but great quality
Already got a set on eBay for $16 set of 8
Looks nice hop u and your family are doing ok down there in .ca
Thank you, we are good thx
Do you know if I can do this on a 2wd 03 f250?
the only downside to the leveling kit is that if you tow or carry anything heavy, it will throw the nose of the front up in the air. You should get a bigger block for the back to give it some rake if you do tow or carry, if not then no worries!!! look a lot better lifted as do all trucks :)
When I get to towing heavy I’ll install airbags in the rear 👍
Nice man 👍.
Thx
I've been thinking about doing a 2in leveling kit and then adding 2in lift shackles front and rear so total of 2 inches
You mean total of 4”?
@@FixItNick ya
That makes the truck sit much better. Now lets pollsh those headlights up, and all it needs is some fat old fenders. All in all, a very good looking truck, and I am really enjoying the series on this truck.
Thx Mike, good idea I might try polishing to ugly bulbs for fun, never done it, but main goal is to do a 2015 front platinum conversion, maybe when I hit 50k subs to do something big exciting? Will prob put in the dialysis fenders that I have for now, can’t find any good white ones yet
FixItNick Wow, front end swap would really change the look of it. I hear the kits for polishing the lights do a pretty good job, cheap enough to try. Either way, the Ford is looking better for sure.
Mike Reed I think front swap might be about $2500 or so for everything, will have to save for a bit before I tackle it, but would be interesting to try doing it for cheapest possible. I’ll try polishing headlights with stuff I have to practice lol
Hey fix it nick what is the song you are playing in the background?
I’ve been having a hell of a time installing my leveling kit on my 03 F250. I can’t get the axel moved over enough to line up with the springs.
Keegan Dahle it’s a pain. I have to use 4 heavy ratchet straps and a pry bar to line it all up
Yea that’s why I used that ratchet chain from harbor freight
So did you plan on an adjustable Trac bar and alignment after?
Jordan e I bought an adjustable track bar but when I started installing it wouldn’t fit, I then realized my stock one is perfectly centered lol
Thanks everyone for the input. I unbolted the track bar and that was my issue. I got it all together and am waiting on an adjustable track bar and a consequent alignment.
I purchased a 2” lift kit that has all of the same parts you have. Do I need anything beside what is in that kit? Watching the video it looks like you have a sway bar that was not hooked when you said the job was complete.
I was also wondering do I need to lengthen any of the lines (brake lines, etc).
Leveling kit made it look more staunch. It was to low in the front. She looked saggy and depressed before. Looks good now! I think some running boards would make it look better. Been watching since your first vid on this truck. Make me want to find a dually to fix up:) Is the paint on the hood really bad or was that just dirt?
Thx bro, prob one of my fav trucks so far, I had a 2012 Ram Cummins it was nice, but the price of it made me depressed lol ... the hood is just dirty haven’t been washed in long time just like my Silverado, washing in 100 degrees is worse than not washing it, makes water spots
What's up friend, in which store did you buy that augmentation kit?
Don't forget, you also have those dually flares to put back on in the rear. I believe 1 1/2 would have been perfect. I don't think 1/2 an inch is that big of a deal.
Yea I’ll put those on soon gotta fix them
Good Job 👍
Thank you
@@FixItNickI’m back 5 years later to do mine on my other powerstroke 😂that’s awesome
What size tires are you running?
Awesome dad.
Thank you appreciate it 🤗
What are the effects of a 2" lift to the ride, handling, mileage and structural integrity?
Everything is pretty much 100% identical, nothing is effected
Did you have to change the sway bar rods for longer ones?
I'm wondering the same???
How long were those u bolts before you cut them down?? And why do some of these kits come with extra spacers? Pan arm drop down spacers on the 3 in kits.. I have blocks but I need the u bolts and possibly the pan arm spacers if I decide to go 3 inches. Just confused why the 2 in doesn't have the pan arm but the 3 in does.
Not sure how long they were before cut them, 2” don’t need pan bar but I still think I’ll install one because it shifted axle about 1” over, for 3” level it will shift over 1.5-2” I’ll get adjustable one
what is called the added parts??
Okay, this is my 5th video tonight. I couldn't find the love button so I had to hit like. Great job. Less than a hundred bucks. I will be doing this to my truck. I hate that you have to live there in California and deal with that bull crap of CHP. Good luck with that. Many blessings to you. Keep up the good work.
Thx bro, ya for $60 best mod if can do it yourself
How does it ride now? Any problems so far? I have a similar truck and was interested in leveling it as well.
rides the same, no issues, since i havent changed leafs it doesnt change the bounce
Im fixen to get one just like it but im gonna put 35 12.50 16 on mine with stock tires
I want to get 35s also actually soon :))
Curious how that impacts the ride and steering quality
Same both
Can I install this one lifted truck? I need to get 2" more to stop the tires from rubbing.
Yes you can, just need longer U bolts unless yours are long enough
What's the torque setting ??
Hey bud, did this affect any of your towing capabilities? Or do they squeak after a while?
Didn’t effect anything
Oh look you have shoes on now. Did you drop a bolt on your foot when you were wearing slides?
Haha slippers for life!!
I just bought a F-350 7.3 2003 DRW. Is it possible to go to SRW removing the spacers front and back and change wheels with apropriate offsets? Thanks
If you want to go SRW you would have lots of holes side of bed
@@FixItNick yes right! :)