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- Hey guys, Brad here with Custom Offsets.

Got another episode of Lifts and Levels.

This is a six inch BDS lift for a 09 to 2013 F-150.

What year is this one?

Is this a 13?

- [Camera Man] 12, 12.

- This one's gonna be goin' on a 2012.

But this is the same kit for 09 to 13 F-150's.

The one nice thing about these

is they actually do make a lift strut

for this generation F-150, so no strut spacer up front.

It's gonna get the complete replacement lift struts.

You can see the lower control arm crossmembers here,

the customer had custom powder-coated.

Obviously they come normally in that black finish

that you're probably used to seeing.

He got the lower control arm drops powder-coated

and also some of the other components here.

This is gonna be part of the differential drop

and sway bar drop, skid plate as well, he got powder-coated.

It looks really nice but, it'll get dirty very easily.

Let's see, obviously you got the new lift knuckles

as well for this kit.

Just the standard stuff pretty much

for the newer kits as well.

Differential drops, grapevine bracket, re-locations,

lift blocks for the rear,

and U-bolts for the rear,

and then he went with the Fox 2.0 shocks

for the rear as well.

And then one thing that he did purchase,

this here is you'll see, this is actually gonna be,

a lot of people ask about this,

this is gonna be the carrier bearing drop kit

that BDS and some other companies will sell.

And what's that's for,

is for trucks that have a two piece rear drive shaft,

they actually will have what's called a carrier bearing

or a center bearing in the middle of the two shafts

to support them, and when you lift them

you have to drop the carrier bearing down

in order to prevent any kind of vibration.

So that's what this is,

they actually give you different little size shims here

and everything like that

to basically dial in the drop height

and prevent any kind of vibration.

It's pretty much it, honestly.

We're gonna go ahead and get it installed on the truck

and get it goin'.

Something else I forgot to mention is,

you'll notice how a lot of BDS kits,

they say welding, there's welding required,

and what that is on this kit here in particular

is when you cut the lower control arm crossmembers

they basically give you reinforcement plates

which you're gonna go in and gusset where you just cut.

Just an extra step that BDS likes to take,

to you know, reinforce things and beef things up basically.

A lot of the other manufacturers for lift kits

don't even bother to include anything like this

although you will still cut the same crossmember

in the same spot, but the other manufacturers

don't even bother to do anything about it.

But BDS does, they gives you these nice welded plates,

and then that's another thing to think about is,

a lot of people will be discouraged

when they see that there's welding,

but technically you don't really have to weld this in,

because a lot of the other kits

don't even bother to include it.

So that's just something to note.

Obviously we always put 'em in there,

but I not everyone has a welder.

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Alright guys, we got the BDS six inch kit installed

on this F-150 2012 model, according to my camera man here,

'cause he's always right.

I would never doubt him.

So this was one of the custom deals

where the customer had this powder-coated.

We usually have the truck up on the lift

but we got the lift tied up right now so it's on the ground.

This is kind of a good thing

'cause now we can show you the angles.

Most of you kind of understand where all the parts go,

you know you got your lower control arm drop crossmembers,

which are those big white pieces.

The differential drops that you can't really see ever,

even when they're up on the lift.

So this one's a little different 'cause it's on the ground

but it's also probably kind of nicer,

'cause it's what you all want to see.

So you can see all the angles here.

You can see the CV axle angles here,

tie rod angles, and what not,

and then the upper ball joint angle over here,

can be seen from here.

But you know you got all the standard components

from the BDS kit, like the sway bar drops,

differential drops, all the good stuff there.

And then this kit of course comes with the new lift strut,

so there's no strut spacer up front.

Come over here and you can see.

Nice ball joint angle up top there.

No interference with the coil spring,

like F-150's are kind of known for.

And then around back, nothin' special out back.

Same as always, just got the standard block in the back

with new U-bolts, and then Fox 2.0 shocks

in the rear as well.

And really that's about it, I mean,

not much too it.

Oh I guess maybe one of the other things to mention

was the e-brake relocation bracket here,

which you can see.

Otherwise, just like the newer F-150's,

not too much different,

but they are a different part number.

The front struts are a little different

between 09's and the newer trucks

but pretty much for the most part they are the same.

So that is going to wrap it up for me.

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