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Old 02-03-2010, 01:48 PM
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Default Tow hooks

Anyone with a body lift and having any ideas how to get tow hoks back in?
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Old 02-03-2010, 01:53 PM
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you'll have to modify your mounts...requires some welding! How, i dk, but i have heard thats what you have to do.
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Old 02-03-2010, 02:05 PM
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Figure out how to modify your existing ones, or make new ones. Or if you don't care about your valence, cut it.
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Old 02-03-2010, 03:42 PM
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If you've got a towhook sitting in front of you removed from the truck and an imagination, knowing the hook itself needs to raise up 3", figuring it out isn't that hard at all.


Your vintage of truck should have had big huge cast hooks. Modding those is impossible. You need the "loop" kind that all 01+ trucks have. Maybe some 00 trucks got'em...idk.
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Old 02-03-2010, 04:31 PM
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on your truck i would just cut the valance, or if you like to offroad you will prob end up knocking it off and running it over like i have done so many times, i gave up on putting it back on, also i swapped my cast hooks for level II hooks
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Old 02-04-2010, 01:04 PM
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Thanks. Im gonna attempt to work on those once it stops snowing here
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Old 03-05-2010, 08:41 PM
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Where can i get a hook like the hook in your guys avatar
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Old 03-05-2010, 09:22 PM
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02 FX4 Offroad, 03-04 FX4 Level 2
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Old 03-05-2010, 09:49 PM
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fab something like this up http://www.fordrangerforum.com/how-t...body-lift.html
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Old 03-05-2010, 09:51 PM
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^^ I just did this for Shane last week. Turned out awesome.
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Old 03-05-2010, 10:13 PM
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I would like to do that as soon as i get a BL and some tow hooks and some tires and some people who will help me make those tow hooks useful.
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