Uglyred
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- Feb 22, 2026
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- 9943
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So I started a thread on ford truck enthusiast back in march so I’ll fill in what I’ve done so far on here and keep it going.
So here it was right after I bought a Half million mile v10 not a bad truck for $700 drive it home with a bad trans and 8/10 cylinders missing. It sat for a while because of a kidney transplant but started tinkering. So the plan for this truck was to just have fun with ac and heat for snow wheeling here in Montana. I wanted to shorten it up add some flex and height bigger tires and make it work good enough to go play on some bigger rocks in Wyoming. Here is a early price list but has most of it.
I had to replace that bad trans first off so I decided to build a skid plate for it out of 2x2 thin wall and wrapped it in 1/4 plate. I also got a trans about 2 inches higher than factory with the new skid plate.
Also took the bed off and ended up breaking the right side back window doing stuff alone sometimes has its disadvantages. But I wanted to shorten the wheel base from 137 inches to something more manageable like 117 or 120 ish inches. Well I chose as short as possible.
It sat like this for a few days and every day I would look at it during work and think what am I doing? So I decided to run the leafs backwards to get a fantastic departure angle with a ord zero rate offset plate. I’m hoping with a beefy ass anti wrap bar that the springs will stay together and I will probably have to add another spring clamp in the new front side of the leaf pack.
Got the hanger mounted with 2 bolt on some “existing holes”, and started to think that looks good!
torched off the end of the frame and there was no going back.
So here it was right after I bought a Half million mile v10 not a bad truck for $700 drive it home with a bad trans and 8/10 cylinders missing. It sat for a while because of a kidney transplant but started tinkering. So the plan for this truck was to just have fun with ac and heat for snow wheeling here in Montana. I wanted to shorten it up add some flex and height bigger tires and make it work good enough to go play on some bigger rocks in Wyoming. Here is a early price list but has most of it.
I had to replace that bad trans first off so I decided to build a skid plate for it out of 2x2 thin wall and wrapped it in 1/4 plate. I also got a trans about 2 inches higher than factory with the new skid plate.
Also took the bed off and ended up breaking the right side back window doing stuff alone sometimes has its disadvantages. But I wanted to shorten the wheel base from 137 inches to something more manageable like 117 or 120 ish inches. Well I chose as short as possible.
It sat like this for a few days and every day I would look at it during work and think what am I doing? So I decided to run the leafs backwards to get a fantastic departure angle with a ord zero rate offset plate. I’m hoping with a beefy ass anti wrap bar that the springs will stay together and I will probably have to add another spring clamp in the new front side of the leaf pack.
Got the hanger mounted with 2 bolt on some “existing holes”, and started to think that looks good!
torched off the end of the frame and there was no going back.
