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I have to get mine in the shop. No lights but I must have a whells speed sensor bad cause when I turn left the engine cuts out and the ABS starts acting up. Its pretty damn bad too. I turn the traction control off and it seems to e alot better but still sucks.

I would say it does but I am not totally sure. Hopefully somone can chime in and give ya a definate answer.

basically you have to remove the whole front bumper cover. from there the grill removal process is pretty easy. Its better to have another grill ready to go. Otherwise you will be grilless. I dunno if you want to have one painted of just buy a new one or not but I have my stock one and would sell it for $60 shipped just to get rid of it.

You can buy em pre painted. Gloss blk, Metalic gloss blk, the sport red and sport blue. I bought mine from the local ford dealer for like 150$ in gloss black.

GOOD FIND!!!! Thanks!!! I actually tinted my stockers for now. You can see it in my gallery pics. I may just spring for these bad boys soon. Thanks

This may sound kinda goofy but how much room ya got on the tounge of your pop-up?? Maybe you could buy a 1 1/4 male piece and weld it to the top of the tounge on your pop-up and then just buy a rack to place in the part you welded on. Then you could use it without the trailer also. I am an avid biker. I use the SPORTRACK. Its amazing!! best money ive spent on a bike hauler. You can get it for two bikes or four. I have the two one. Here is a link. http://www.sportrack.com/a30901

I had perfect ones but painted em. LOL. sorry. there was a set on ebay for 400 with tires from chicago too i think.

glad to hear ya got er off.

Thats exactly how I did mine. I also used a piece of plasic (the plastic like squeegee you use for vinyl decal install, if you know what I mean). I slid that in first then pryed against it with the screwdriver. worked good

I actually used a flat head screwdriver and a thin piece of plastic and popped it off of mine. very easy. takes less than a minute to remove both

I actually was trying to find someone local to trade my chrome clads for those wheels you got rid of. Couldnt find any so I painted the chrome clad. LOL.

Funny, I just put on my rear overlay and then used the vinyl tint that I used for my headlights on the front emblem. Turned out great. I used a heat gun also and was a piece of cake to do. I removed the emblem to do it ofcourse. I will post a couple pics soon. Looks more like a blk chrome now.

Mine is doing the same. But only when I turn left. I loose power and traction control lights up. I know forsure that its a wheelspeed sensor that is bad. I have tried 3 times to get into the dealer to have it fixed but everytime they are to busy. (Reynolds Ford in East Moline, IL). I almost rear ended someone do to the abs acting up also. Its great!

It drops the front 1.75inches and the rear 1.5 inches. I have tried to load pics into my gallery but they wouldnt load for some reason. Part # was 51605 from H&R.

I just installed my H&R springs and could not be happier. It still rides excellent but feels so much better. The handleing is great and it doesnt feel top heavy anymore and feels more car like and not so SUV like. I would recomend them to everyone. Looks great too!!!

bigger is out and smaller is in. Now is a good time to be a midget. I dunno, thats crazy that they made the filter smaller.

FRONT SPRINGSok, so the front is done. Took about 45mins start to finish. First take one wheel off (19mm socket) and then use needle nose pliers to release the clip holding the wheel speed sensor wire. The a 10mm socket to disconect the brake line from the strut. Then you will need a short bucket or whatever to prop the spindle once the two bolts are disconected. Ok, so take the nut off the bottom bolt that is on the strut and remove bolt. Then do the top bolt. You can now wiggle the strut free from the spnidle. Next you will need to use a rachet wrench (13mm) and undo the four nuts located at the top of the strut under the hood. Remove all but the one closest to the motor. That one you will remove last since it is the easiest. Once they are removed the strut will be free. You will have to wiggle the strut over the brake line towards the front of the car and it will then come right out. Install the coil compressors on the outter side of the coil with an impact. Then use the impact and remove the top nut on the strut (13/16ths). Once removed clean the top and bottoms of the seats. Place new coil on the strut and place cap on and install nut. Be sure to run the nut down with an impact untill it is fully seated otherwise you will hear sounds when hitting bumps. Onece top is on you will be able to instsall strut. The top cap has the four studs and an arrow in the middle of only two of them. This will be pointing outward in the dirrection of the ears that attach to the spindle. Place the strut up into the upper pocket as high as you can. Then work the bottom over the brake line. You will now be able to line up the top studs with the holes on top. Once you get it in you will be able to position the bottom of the strut on the sway bar end to help hold it up as you place one nut back on the top to hold it. Once you get the one on the other three are easy. Get them all on and fairly tight and them do an X pattern when fully tightening them down. Now go to the bottom of the strut and work the spindle back in and install the top bolt first and loosly place the nut on. Now put the bottom bolt in and loosly place the nut on . Now with an impact, tighten the top nut first and then the lower. Now puch the pin back in that hols the wheel speed sensor wire and install the bolt that holds the brake line. Now install the wheel and your done. Same steps for the other side. Hope this helps those of you that like to save money and do it yourself.

REAR SPRINGS INSTALL ok, So....... I did the rears today. took me almost an hour, start to finish. Really wasnt too bad. I used spring compressors (the outter type you can barrow from auto-zone). I put those on the one side and crank em down pretty good untill i could see the bottom of the spring had lifted almost a half inch from the seat. I then disconected the sway bar (15mm) and the brake cable(10mm). I then disconected the top bolt on the cast iron part bolted to the hub assembly (18mm) and then the lower one thats closer to the sway bar (18mm). I then used my foot and held the spring and pushed the lower arn up and down and got the spring ready to come out. I then had to take one side of the spring compressor off to get the spring all the way out. Then I cleaned the spring seats and installed the new H&R coil easily. To put everything back together start with the upper bolt that goes into the cast arm. You will have to use your jack on the outter part of the rotor. just below where the wheel studs are and jack it up to where you can work the towo pieces to get the bolt together. then you will have to move the jack underneath the coil spring and play with the jack a little untill you are able to get the lower bolt back in. The rest is very simple. Hope this helps. I will be doing the front tomarrow but that will be alot easier than the rear for sure.

ok, I take it everyone had theirs done. Hmm, ok. I will figure it out.

I was looking for some of you that installed your own springs. And wanting to know how you swapped the rear springs out? I have done quite a few springs but never messed with independant rear. If you can let me know what ya had to do or disconect it would be greatly appreciated. Planning on droppin her on wendsday. I am sure it would help others out too. Thanks in advance. I checked the search but never found anything. After install I will try n do a write up.

I just did mine too. I just glass bead blasted em and then use the etching primer and sprayed them with the duplicolor trim paint. Turned out great. The dye thing sounds interesting. hmm

yep, I got one sittin in the garage off my 07 also. swapped it out for a black one.

I think it looks GREAT! But I am now wondering if those tail light will work with the 07-10 models cause they look SO MUCH better than ours in my opinion. I am gonna hold off on the sport tails until I can find out if these will fit in my 07 or not.