Spindles

Anybody other than bell tech make f150 spindles yet? I have the belltechs, but still hoping someone builds one with the correct tierod placement...

cant you just flip the tie rod????? thats what i have heard people are doing

Absolutely, thats what I did and it was like night and day difference, but there is still a bit of bumpsteer and when I have it aligned at ride height, then the toe out when slammed almost has the front of the tires hitting the fenders, i'd like to be able to turn the wheel at least a little when laid out, but it's not a huge deal.

did you have to modify the tie rod hole at all to flip it, also shouldnt it tow in when you lay it out

i just reamed it out a bit w/ the die grinder and used a steel spacer on the top to compensate for the extra space, really quick fix and easy to do. the problem w/ the spindles is that it moved the tie rod up 2" too, so flipping them almost fixes this, but puts the pivot point about 3/4 " lower than stock. that means that as the top of the spindle arcs in with that lovely camber, the tierod's arc sort of pushes out on the spindle and toe's out. I'm considering dropping the pitman and idler 3/4" to fix it, but I do plan on swapping the spindles back to stock for running my stock rims in the winter, so that would fuck things up then... I just don't get why bell tech wouldn't just leave the damn thing in the stock position!

can you post some pics

You want pics of the spindles? or what? I'll take some next week when i put them back on if you'd like. had them off for running my winter rims...

yea, and i wanted to see what you did to the tie rod.

Sorry man, I completely spaced taking pics when i put them back on... it really was as simple as diegrinding the hole out a little from the bottom and just putting the tierod in pointing up. I spent a little more time aligning it this time and also aligned it sitting a little lower and that seemed to help a lot. still toes out laid out and toes in lifted, but i rarely lift it very high so it works for me...

If you still need/want pics let me know and I'll pop a rim off and shoot a couple for ya!