Sky Manufacturing Spring Swap OBS FORD To 08-16

[@BerserkerF100]

Good job bro!!! I know EXACTLY what you had to as I did the front and rear SORD lift all by myself. Kicked my ass but it was totally worth it!!! You truck looking like a beast!!!

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Thank you, sir!

[@BlueF350]

I did a front 2” sky’s off-road superduty rsk and will do the rear as well. Big difference in ride, and if I want more lift all I have to do is snag some x code sorings

[@geredcorbin2774]

me and my buddy both did this swap on our trucks mine is a 97 and his is a 95, both of them are now being replaced. the springs are digging into the shackle. go with pmf suspension its a way better reverse shackle kit.

[@James-W6WOF]

Nice truck brother. 👍

[@vapeking5733]

im glad all the people around my home are great sorry you got one of them guy is the gun on the gas tank at 12:45 for the truck when it has ya pissed or for the ahole nexted door lol

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

The Kimber 1911 Stainless TLE/RLII is my go-to gun. Usually have it close when I’m outside doing things and such. Sleeps on my nightstand. It’s for critters, personal defense, party games and drooling.

[@n8_EUC]

Nice tip on getting those rivets out with the pneumatic chisel hammer

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Hindsight 2020, there are some rivets that I’d leave installed so that there aren’t as many holes in the frame. I recently took off the factory spring mounts and bump stop brackets and ended up leaving the portion of the rivet that sits inside the frame in there. Just ground down the rivet heads, pounded off the bracket and then ground down the tiny portion of the rivet that was remaining. Video of that process coming soon.

[@fixupapickuptruck]

Good stuff! Hopefully doing the same on my F-250, 92 soon. May try this pack. :)

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Sky’s stuff is definitely well made. No regerts...

[@chelosauthentic]

Nice job bro,

[@natureboi2426]

Badass bro!!

[@tannpants9532]

Considering this kit over the PMF in my F350 CCLB on 38's. Would you recommend it over PMF? Haven't been able to find any concrete details, but looking at the design between the two, the PMF wouldn't really do much of a lift because the rear shackle sits up way higher. I'm looking to level out the rear with the front after having just done a 2.25" PMF RSK with X Code springs yielding approximately 4.5" of lift IIRC. I need around 2.5" of lift in the rear to even it out IIRC. It would be nice to eliminate as much lift block as possible, but still give myself some room to lower or raise it with custom lift blocks if I need to. Read I shouldn't go over the factory lift block height for safety concerns. Seems like the 2.5" Sky kit with 08+ F350 springs (43-1705) would get me there. Or maybe the 4" to eliminate the block all together.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

PMF is premium stuff and worth the money. I have used their products on a few of my trucks and can’t say a bad thing about them. The Sky’s kit worked fine for me and it was an upgrade. I’m sure their website and instructions have upgraded since I made that video and I would consider using their kit again. As far as your dilemma on front and rear lift heights, using a lift block is fine, in the rear. Get the front where you want it to sit first and then do the rear.

[@212caboose]

Thanks for posting this vid- I JUST found out about the Sky 08+ SD spring kit... I'm looking to do the same to the rear of my OBS.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Awesome! It’s definitely a big improvement. After I put it on and drove around without the bed on, it rode just a little better than before but once I put the bed on and had that weight, it was a huge improvement over stock. Good luck and I hope the video helps in some way.

[@212caboose]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 Oh, it will! I'm fixin' to watch your vid again, in fact. I want to make sure I know exactly what I'm in for. One question: Do you HAVE to remove the bed, or does it just make things easier? Or were you doing other work?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

You don’t have to remove it. I did it because I was going to be working on it for several days by myself and I wanted to make it as easy as possible. I also own an excavator which made it fairly easy to do.

[@dcdc148]

Good job looks tough.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Thanks! We have some cosmetic mods coming this week from a couple different places.

[@caddymane8303]

Well you definitely saved yourself a lot of money and it's a nice lift kit I wish I had time to put a project like that together but driving this truck over the road makes things rather difficult

[@swank171]

My rear caps didt fit either. I took the wheels off, sanded and gloss blacked the axle, took teh bolts out and used a wire wheel to clean them up to match teh wheel. So the contrast of the silver bolts on teh black axle looked better than nothin. haha.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Sounds like a tasteful color scheme. Almost as tasty as some Don Q Rum.

[@kirbywinters1291]

Run spacers for the back it will make the track width the same as the front with the obs axle in the rear I believe I ran 2 inches on mine

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

I didn’t do an axle swap. Stock OBS axles front and rear.

[@iansteward4708]

That’s what he’s saying…the stock obs rear axle puts the rear tires narrower than the front.

[@MrBlitzkrieg1987]

Just subscribed to your channel! Nice Truck!!

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

My man!

[@ms.carroll5574]

I'm thinking about going this route

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

It’s worth it

[@marioc9836]

Add some wheel spacers on the back to bump your rims out enough so you could fit your center hubs. Great video nice truck

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

They sent the wrong center caps. They got the new ones and they fit perfectly.

[@mmicustoms5647]

Hey first thanks for the video. Question for you un your video at 13:02 I see the top of your leaf spring there is a outline. Was there a newer style bracket on top for the u bolts that you had to remove? Or did the spring already come like that?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Not sure I understand the question

[@Firelord360]

If you lube up that bushing it will be a lot smoother to assemble

[@jarrodarnett8296]

They're urethane, they're already slick. Pull the center sleeve, push the urethane into the shackle and then push the sleeve through

[@gabrielmovers8689]

Also it'll be nice to you get some links to get the exact parts thank you

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

www.skysoffroaddesign.com/collections/92-97-f-250-350-rear-suspension/products/92-97-f-250-350-07-16-sd-rear-spring-swap?variant=13780083605570 Good kit and I’d buy it again.

[@donalmcgavran6124]

Just came across your video, like how your truck turned out. I have an 02 that I have wanted to put a small lift on and will be definitely looking into these kits you used. One question I have is, what rims and tires did you end up going with as they look sweet on the truck?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Wheels: 17x9 Pacer 164P Mod LT. Local shop had the best price. Tires: 35x12.5x17 Advanta XComp MT. Bought them from bbwheelsonline.com.

[@justinphillips6136]

Not sure about the neighbor but I couldn’t hear what you said towards the end I’ve true music. Sweet truck man... enjoy the heck out of it.

[@josafatalvarez3728]

Put spacers on the rear wheels for the caps...where in Texas are you at.. I'm in houston and have a 97 f350.if you are close by I like to meet so you can recommend me what I need to do something like that

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

The original caps were just the wrong caps. Too tight to get over the hub and for a different truck. They sent replacement caps and they were the right fit. I’m in San Antonio 🤛🏻.

[@josafatalvarez3728]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 cool! Man alitle to far lol well thanks man!

[@7.3jase78]

I have one of that’s man kid boys at work 😂 he walks and take videos of us at work

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

At work is extra special. So he’s videoing and not working?? Might be worth showing to management 😉.

[@gabrielmovers8689]

Great video I'm going to do the same to my 95 Powerstroke how much is the kit cost for the rear

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

I paid $665 shipped plus the cost of the springs. I found those on CL for $100 off a new truck.

[@Mr.XJ.96]

Just picked up at 90 4x4 with the 4.9 4speed. Gonna do a SaS swap and this. Get yourself a Heat Wrench or Torch to get those rivits out. Screw all that drilling thats to much work and to much time.

[@SuperJustinhunter]

Hello Sick video. Very helpful. Question. Did that step in the rear come with the truck?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

It did. My grandpa bought the truck new and put it on when he switched from a flatbed to a regular bed.

[@SuperJustinhunter]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 Its sick. Andy way you could take some dimension and pictures? Or shoot even a video?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Will do

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Outside to outside of tubing on the step is 12.5” Hangs down 5 7/8” to the bottom of the tubing beneath the bottom of the bumper. Tubing is all 1”. Entire bottom portion of the step, front to back, is 10 13/16”, and that’s outside to outside of the tubing. Want any other dimensions?

[@dannyfackler7104]

Did you leave the spring bolts in the holes as shown in the video? My rear shackle bolt is on the front bolt hole of the rear hanger and on my front hanger I used the most rearward bolt hole. I’m just running a normal height with both front RSK and rear spring kit.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

The rear hanger bolt is in the back hole and the front hanger bolt is in the back hole on mine. When I called Sky while doing this, they said they only install the back part of the spring in the back hole.

[@dannyfackler7104]

heyitsmedouglas heyitsmedouglas that’s odd because the instructions show using the front hole in the rear hanger, I wonder what difference if any it would make.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Lol and this is part of the reason why I was saying in the video that there was some figuring out left to do with the info they put out. Even on their website, at the time, showed it mounted on the front of the rear hanger. Eric, at Sky, told me they only use the rear sooooooo rock what ya got until it breaks...

[@dannyfackler7104]

heyitsmedouglas heyitsmedouglas copy that. Thanks for the info. I talked to them yesterday about the front hanger hole selection and the rear hanger bolt needing to go in backwards but never about which hole to use in the rear. I went by the pictured instructions....ended up shaving off the excess bolt threads on the rear hanger bolt instead of running it backwards.

[@matthewhons2971]

Nice truck. What size wheels and tires you running

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

35x12.5x17 tires (I have a video on it) and 17x9 wheels

[@matthewhons2971]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 thanks for the info. Did you ever have any luck finding a second bed?

[@matthewhons2971]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 thanks for the info. Did you ever find a second bed?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

I haven’t looked too hard yet but I need to get on it

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Matthew Hons not yet. I may have to just break down and buy an entire truck and then reevaluate it all. Just have a scrap yard of running/driving OBSs in my yard!

[@jcmcclellan82]

About 3 minutes in it shows your frame. It looks like you have prior damage that may need to be welded up or reinforced. Alotta work just to have a weak link destroy it all.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Yeah thanks. My grandpa used to have a flatbed on it and I think he had welded on some things in that area for the bed/gooseneck. Look at it this way, if it cracks in half, it means I’ll get to do a rotisserie frame swap! There would be some good videos with that!

[@cencoast_7.340]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 Plate/weld it

[@offgridmangogrower]

Did you like the results? I have an old international and would like to do a shackle reversal....front and back....how does yours ride now..?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

It’s better for sure. Not the best but it is a vast improvement.

[@CR500R]

Why didn't you use the Sky RSK? They've got all kinds of options now. Back in the day when I did mine, Sky only offered the 3" RSK designed for the OBS springs. Now they've got kits for Superduty springs front and rear, 3" and 5" etc... Good looking rig brother. Keep up the good work!

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

You won $10 by posting this comment, congratulations! The Sky kit was more expensive and I have heard nothing but good things about PMFs kit for a long time. I’m sure Sky’s is great also. Private message me and I’ll get you your $$$$!

[@frankhague353]

Hey man where did you get your rear Leaf spring hangers I can’t find them anywhere!!

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Sky Off Road Design

[@greggoett]

Looks like you did a rear shackle flip.... and tried to use the lift block. If you had put the rear shackle in OEM style you would have needed the blocks

[@greggoett]

Look at the very beginning. The leaf eye is above the shackle pivot arm.. if you fully droop the axle, with how you have it now, the leaf might, maybe kinda could, flip and try to hang

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

I did not. If you watch the entire video, you’ll see that I eventually take off the rear tires. I wasn’t trying to do a reverse shackle flip. I was trying to remove as little as possible and do a lazy spring swap. I was not trying to connect it all with the rear spring eye above the stock mount 🤪. The rear block, as of the making of that video, and possibly still, should not be used to get the amount of lift they were advertising. It’s not a big deal. I had to spend extra time installing everything and then figuring out that it would look dumb with the block and had to have a second set of custom made u blocks made but I’m not salty about it. I’m just glad this video has helped people since Sky’s directions weren’t accurate.

[@greggoett]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 Yeah, I just did.. your rear shackle, is upside down of how OEM truck shackles are put on. NOT car shackles. But a reverse shackle kit.. is OK.. but it is what accounts for your 3" lift block delete.

[@greggoett]

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[@spearboy321]

Any chance you could measure fender to center of wheel front and rear? My obs had a lift on it, but I have no idea what it actually is. Starting this week with this Sky kit but trying to plan the front soon too and have no idea what size rsk to get.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Sure. I also have them listed in my video “Episode 36: Bed goes on...Ferrari cameo”. Front 29” as of today. Rear 28 3/16”. Fast forward to about 3:50 in that video and it gives all four corners before and after the lift and the total lift on each corner.

[@spearboy321]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 thanks for the reply. Greatly appreciated.

[@SWEETSIDER]

Hahaha loser neighbour was just the icing on a very well done video. Better done than some guys with thousands of subscribers

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

I appreciate that. I’m in the process of getting body cam footage from 2 other incidents where the renter boy was losing his $hit. The footage should be worthy of Saturday night viewing with popcorn.

[@JSAFIXIT]

I'm glad my neighbors are all very good people. The closest one is also into vehicles big time. I did a huge rolling burnout from my place down past his in a Trans Am I had, he laughed and brought out his 56 crown victory and did one twice as long lol.

[@THETERPZ]

4:13 the welds on the shackles, look like poo.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

K

[@josephmclovin9763]

Thats why i live in the country

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

I live on 5 acres and all my neighbors have acreage. My neighbor on one side is in the county. My property happens to be in the city limits, unfortunately.

[@marloneyherrera3441]

donde compraste el kit?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Lo compré de Sky. Está bien y también hay PMF (Precision Metal Fabrication). Los dos son buenos.

[@marloneyherrera3441]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 gracias, quiero colocar una rueda de 40" que me recomiendas?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Una rueda de 40” or una llanta de 40”? Una llanta de 40” depende en cuánto espacio te gusta entre la llanta y el cuerpo. Creo que 9”-11” sería perfecta con 40s 🤛🏻.

[@ndputnam]

Appreciate these videos. Definitely helped me with my RSK install. I am about to do the 08-16 springs for the back of my truck. I do have a 7.3 crew so the lift sizes may vary but I did the PMF 2.25 RSK with x codes which gave me right around 3-3.5" of lift in the front. Currently my rear is sitting about 1" lower so I would like to go up 1-2" max. From the sounds of it using the Sky 2.5" kit and no rear block I may get too much lift in the back? Also was curious why you went with this kit over the PMF rear kit? Appreciate your insight.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Yeah, unless Sky got their act together, don’t use the rear block for the suggested lift height they claim you are purchasing. I have my order receipt, spring info and personally did 100% of the work myself. Sky’s info was wrong, at the time at least, for the lift heights. PMF is top notch. I went with Sky bc, at the time, theirs appeared to be a little more substantial than PMF.

[@Rickfuel]

What year truck leaf springs did you use?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

2016. They supposedly were taken off right when the guy bought the truck and he lifted his and were sitting in his garage until he sold the truck to get a 2019. But any SuperDuty springs from 08-16 will work.

[@Yaqui_Pride]

I know this was recorded quite some time ago but I’m wondering would this kit work on a obs F150? Any input would be appreciated

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

It would not be a direct fit. The frames are different between the heavy duty and light duty trucks.

[@george6264]

It was up too high with blocks because you have no weight on the back having no bed it’s gonna drop down and fronts gonna be higher when bed is on it

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

For sure that is true. But the weight and height difference is not anywhere close to the height of the block. You definitely do not need to use the block in this setup if you have a 4.5” rsk in front. It sits perfectly level now that everything has settled in the front and back and the bed is back on. When I put my bald eagle sculpture I hand carved from a 400 year old oak tree in the bed, it’s gonna be nose high.

[@kelbydude94]

what rear springs did you end up going with?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

They’re off a 2016 350

[@barrettdempsey6755]

Do the superduty springs work with stock axles or do you have to do a superduty axle swap?

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Yep stock axles. Just change the mounts and springs and you’re off to flexing over those moon rocks at the local trails.

[@w.b.d.s4009]

What part number did you use for your springs? I have skys 3" reverse kit and I want this kit for the rear but these springs come in several variations trying to level the truck without any blocks.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Unfortunately I do not know the part number. I bought them from a guy on CL that had taken them off right when he bought his truck and put a lift on it. He had a 2016 F-350 SRW. If you go to autoandtrucksprings.com, it looks like the part # is 43-1705. www.autoandtrucksprings.com/2008-2016-ford-f250sd-f350sd-2wd-4wd-srw-drw-rear-leaf-spring-oem-7c3z5560db-43-1705/

[@daisbestDA9]

Should have gone with the 4" sky kit in the rear, you might have to add a 1.5" lift block to be level with the front with your 2.5" sky kit

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Ha well I’m not sure if you watched the video or any of my other videos but the 2.5” Sky rear made my rear lift way too tall if I kept the block. It sits pretty much perfectly level with the 4.5” front pmf rsk that I did. I think a 4” rear Sky kit would have more of a rake than I care for.

[@James-W6WOF]

Brother. That guy is just a miserable old man pussed off at himself with what he did with his life up to the present. Christ's piece is the only thing that will save hime now!

[@stevenbyrd4310]

Wow you've got the wrong muffler on there but that's looks like the least of your problems how are those lighter spring supposed to be better than the factory just looks like you're lost to me dude Js

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

It’s a muffler from a ‘92 Honda Civic. What’s wrong with that? The truck rides way better than it used to so I guess THAT’S how it’s supposed to ride better than factory. I guess I’m in good company being lost with 382,018 other people that have the same springs...next up, I’m going to be doing an axle swap to a GM IFS bc those are the absolute best and most bulletproof setups known to man!

[@Akya2120]

Not sure what that guy is on about... Anyway, I'm thinking about doing this as well. Looks like you used a heavy duty leaf pack, about an extra 1700lbs of spring on each side. The standard springs are 2 or 3 leaf packs and 2700lb per side instead of 4400. That's probably why you got so much lift out of it. What GM IFS are you talking about running? How doable is the swap? I'm guessing it hasn't been done before.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Not sure about the standard rear springs but I think they are what come on a normal F350. For the front, I am planning to eventually do an axle swap from an ‘05+ Ford so I can get coils and have disc brakes. That swap is pretty common but is still a good swap to do.

[@CharlesMccullough-g2h]

Totally confusing

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Don’t worry. Once you become at least partially smart, it’ll all make sense. Cheers.

[@jimsalabim9203]

Quit watching when the loud ass music started....

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

You’re just mad that you didn’t win the $10. Better luck next time. We have a big giveaway coming up once we hit 1,000 subs.

[@brendenmorrow4159]

First

[@chchchscott1]

Turn down the music dude.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

It wasn’t even loud. That guy doesn’t like sounds of any kind.

[@pugetlexus]

this RSK kit has been fundamentally the stupidist exercise ive undertaken in years. the holes in the brackets dont even line up. i welded the holes shut and re drilled in the proper location. a truly overrated and overly expensive kit. i hope that when im finished the ride will be better than the quality of this kit which i judge as marginal at best

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

Hrrrm. Did you get the PMF kit? Mine fit really well. Did you reach out to Trevor at PMF?

[@pugetlexus]

@@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312 its a little late now, the sky came highly recommended. evidently from voices that did not know their topic . oh well. ill make this one work... i hope. ill look up pmf nonetheless thx

[@haus1705]

oyur audio sucks. get rid of the music.

[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

You suck and so does your spelling. Thanks for the viewing minutes!

[@edwardrsohtun12]

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[@heyitsmedouglasheyitsmedou1312]

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