Blowing Diesel Designs
Ford OBS 05+ Axle Swap Kit
Ford OBS 05+ Axle Swap Kit
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This is our 05+ Superduty Axle Swap Kit, it is designed to make your swap as easy and simple as possible. All of our brackets are bolt on with a few new holes that will need to be drilled. All brackets are 1/4" and 3/8" steel CNC cut and MIG welded. This kit is designed to work with a lift up to 3".
2WD Option: First on the market, intended for 2WD OBS trucks. It allows the kit to be installed utilizing as many of the existing holes on the frame as possible. This kit option reduces the amount of drilling to only two holes per coil bucket and three holes per radius arm bracket.
Kit includes
- Coil Buckets
- Radius Arm Brackets
- Track Bar Bracket
- Sway Bar Brackets
- Pitman Arm (Optional)
- Grade 8 Hardware
- Bolt tabs for a 2WD will include two short tabs & for 4WD it will include one short tab and one long tab.
05+ Parts You will Need
- Front Axle
- Track Bar
- Coil Springs
- Steering
- Sway Bar and End Links
- 05-07 front brake lines
Fitment notes
- Fits 1992-1997 F250, F350
- F150, Bronco, 80-91 and 2wd Trucks will require additional holes drilled and may need a 1/4" shim at the frame rail for the track bar bracket.
- ZF5 Trucks will need the crossmember modified
- Minor trimming to the engine crossmember might be required for track bar clearance (1/6" - 1/4")
Additional notes
- Ships in raw steel
- Drive shaft modifications might be needed
- Your wheel bolt pattern will now be 8x170 with a 17" wheel minimum
- No logo option available on the coil buckets, please leave a note under Order Special Instructions
- Allow 1+ week of lead time
All products are made to order and all sales are final. No returns or refunds.
For buyers outside of AZ and/or for purchases where sales tax is not applied. Use tax is the buyer's responsibility. Please refer to your home state for guidance.
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***FOR OFF-ROAD USE ONLY***
Made the 08 axel swap a breeze. Well built kit and great instructions and customer service. Everything bolted up as it should. Biggest pain is removal of old suspensions components and brackets. The fact that this kit utilizes most of the existing holes on the frame makes alignment super easy for install. Highly recomend it. Had some question and reached out on the phone. I was surprised to have someone answer on Saturday afternoon and have all the right answers to my concerns. That alone is worth the price.
IPlanning on just buying the trac bar and using everything from my donor truck to swap my 2wd OBS, but once I started cutting rivets off I decided to just buy the brackets and they made life so easy. I had to drill lots of holes in my frame to make it work, but he has since addressed this by making a 2wd kit after I’ve done the swap on my. Everything is super well constructed and looks great as well. The biggest thing is how easy it made the swap.
I took my time and worked on it for a little bit at a time over the winter but could absolutely be done in a weekend if you’ve got everything prepped and don’t have to run to town to grab things and wait on paint to dry.
I used 2.5” leveling springs for a superduty, with 2” lift shocks for a superduty. 4” OBS factory f350 rear blocks on the 2wd rear OBS leaf pack.
I used the brake lines off the donor truck, with the few fittings and adaptor ujoints + flange Joel recommended.
Anyways, I’ll add some pics below with the stock wheels w/ 2.5” wheel adaptors and also with 17” racelines 8x170. (Update: website won’t allow me to upload the photos, I have a few on my instagram @pocketlint_ https://www.instagram.com/pocketlint_?igsh=aDN3eGlkZXA3ampl&utm_source=qr
Good product works great. This was my second kit
Best axle swap kit available!
Quality of the fabrication is top notch.
Excellent customer service from start to finish
Overall impressed with quality of kit and hardware, got it installed in my 94 bronco with the 5.8. Would not recommend for this application though as every bracket needed fabricating to fit properly on a 1/2 ton frame