I pick mine up at a ford dealer ship for 25.53 a pice the next day because they don't stock them. I installed them my self with a two ton pull extractor while the front end was up on jack stands. You can use a c-clamp to remove the stock keys but when it comes to intalling the ford keys I would not recommed the c-clamp because they are in so much more pressure.

 

If You Lived Around The Baton Rouge Area I Would Put Em In For Ya , I Have The Gm J-tool That You Are Supposed To Use, But The 2 Jawed Gear Puller Works Also, I Just Bought The J-tool From My Tool Man.

 

Right now I have my torsion bars turned up about 8 turns on my 2500 HD to level it out. So if I bought a set of regular 1500 keys I would turn them back down and still have the front end ride at the same height while improving ride quality?

 

What part number or for what year F150? I want to get a set of these. Also, I noticed that the ones Rough Country sells say that you should get a realinement to their specs that they list in the PDF file for instalation. Is this also true for the Ford keys?

 

Oh, and here is the link to the PDF file if you guys want to check it out. Might help some with installation as well.

http://www.roughcountry.com/7592.pdf

 

NO, the ride quality will only get worse the more you crank up the front end regardless of the keys or number of turns on the bolt, because your adding preload either way.

And YES you must get an alignment any time you adjust your torsion bars, because it changes the camber of the wheel typically the higher you go the more you wear the outside of the tires.

 

Ok, so can anyone tell me for sure if I get the Ford keys on my 1500 that I could have the adjustment bolts in the stock location and get 1.5" of lift?

I ask because the ones from Rough country say that you can get that much lift installing theirs with the bolt in the stock location. They also say you could crank them up to 2in if you desire without too much difference in the ride.

If the Ford are the same I do not see the need in spending 150 for the rough country ones. But if I gotta crank on the Ford ones Ill just fork over the money for a better ride.

 

It does not matter. You would be adjusting your torsion bar the same amount either way. The only possible difference is how much bolt you have to use to do it. 2in of lift is the same regardless of the keys or the number of turns on that bolt.

 

So there would be no difference in the tension placed on the bars if you have to crank one up more than the other? I thought if you crank the bolt the load on the bars gets higher? Hence, my resoning that if with different keys that allow for the bolt to remain at the stock location would result in less load on the bars?

I am confused, lol.

 

The Ford Keys, and also the RC keys, just so happen to be made with a different offset. When you install them, all you are doing in preloading the torsion bars. By adjusting the screw, you are again, just preloading the torsion bars. The screw simply presses againt the key to load it. Make sense? However you get to 2", you will have the same ride.