Raising SuperCrew Upper Arms

OK, so they flipped the lower ball joints. How does this benefit? Same as having drop spindles? I have Belltech spindles, so does that mean I can get away with not doing the ball joints?

the only reason that the "flipping of the ball joints" or spindle flip was even thought of was because they did not use to make a drop spindle. people still continue to use it because they are too cheap to buy spindles. if you have the spindles then there is no need to flip the ball joints. just raise the upper ~2" to help with your camber. although i've heard that spindle doesn't give near the negative camber that a new lower control arm does so you may be able to get away with it. BUT you may need the camber to get your rims to tuck if the backspacing isn't correct

I got the uppers raised. I needed to do it to clear the brake booster. Now that I got that out of the way, the tire is hitting that huge ass plug on the firewall! What does everyone do with that plug??

you talkin about the grey black and brown plugs? i moved mine in the cab under the dash. lengthened all the wires.

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I assume this would be the same for a single cab f150 as well or is this just the supercrew?

ekstensive sells a bolt in upper control arm relocator

Edited: 5/6/2008 10:23:03 AM by chris03hd

Edited: 5/6/2008 9:46:00 AM by chris03hd

Edited: 5/6/2008 9:44:37 AM by chris03hd

Edited: 5/6/2008 9:43:45 AM by chris03hd

Originally posted by Layumon22s



the only reason that the "flipping of the ball joints" or spindle flip was even thought of was because they did not use to make a drop spindle. people still continue to use it because they are too cheap to buy spindles. if you have the spindles then there is no need to flip the ball joints. just raise the upper ~2" to help with your camber. although i've heard that spindle doesn't give near the negative camber that a new lower control arm does so you may be able to get away with it. BUT you may need the camber to get your rims to tuck if the backspacing isn't correct

Too cheap?

In my situation all the machining done to the stock spindles netted a 3" drop, not to mention all the steering geometry remained correct, and there was no need to then also raise the uppers.Your BellTech spindles moves the hub higher, it does nothing for the upper ball joint(which we flipped upside down, side to side), tie rods and we have zero bump steer. All the holes on my spindles were machined, welded, tapered, etc. And costs 100's LESS!

In the end, I tuck 24x10's up front, and have ZERO negative camber when laid out.. perfectly straight wheels tucked under the fender. Stock upper's lower's and KP cups with RE6's. No cheater tires here either..

TRACE, take my info with a grain of salt if you will, but know just buying drop spindles doesnt solve every issue, just because they are "avaliable."

Edited: 5/6/2008 11:01:51 PM by Layumon22s

chris:have you had an alignment done on it with the spindle flip or are you just assuming that the steering geometry is the same? how is your camber when the wheels are untucked? at say ride height?also take everything i say with a grain of salt, there is still no perfect way to bag the front of the f150sand pictures of your spindle flip would be great as well

edit: the front ends are the same regardless of cab sytle

Yea the front end suspension setups are the same regardless of std cab, ext cab, or super crew.

Hey Chris havent heard from you in a minute email me some pics of how did your suspension. Was any of my info helpful in the process?