It takes me a little over a hour to get a cab in the air depending on how much extra stuff is on the vehicle and how it was installed. On a regular cab there is 4 bolts inside the cab and 2 more out side by the radiator support.
This article explains it pretty good but I have come up with some modifications to it to save a little time later, like removing the master cylinder and ABS HCU and flopping it over on the engine instead of opening up the system, saves a brake bleed. As far as for connectors there is many but they are all pretty easy once you figure out and look at the truck. This truck was assembled this way so it should come apart the same way. The regular cab trucks can be pretty light in the back with the weight of the nose hanging in air so I load up around 300 pounds of scrap rotors, battery's and what ever else I have laying around behind the seat to help in balancing it on the lift. As a extra safety measure I tie the back of the cab to the lift to prevent any movement. Ford didn't approve of this method in the past but they haven't said anything about it in the last couple of years.
This link has some great information on doing this on other vehicles so have your techs look at it, I am sure they will like it better in the long run. If I had to do it the old fashioned way I would probably have to sleep in my hot tub to recover as my back will not tolerate leaning over a fender for hours at a time any more. I have never had any complaints from the customers after doing repairs this way and many times they came back in a few days and said the truck never felt so tight, I think it is from re torquing the body mounts after they were compressed from the mileage on the vehicles.
FMT
