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95XL
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- Fulton, NY
- Vehicle Year
- 2002
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 7.3L Diesel
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- Automatic
Wow, it's been a while since I've been around here. Ok, as some of you may recall, I was in the process of doing a dual wheel conversion on my Ranger (Which I still am in the process of, I just don't have the financial support that I need). I am putting a Dana 60 Full Float in the rear, and figured while I was at it, I might as well put 1-ton running gear up front too. Question is, what does it take to fab up one of these axles? I would like to use coil springs instead of leaves, due to the buckets already being there, and I don't believe there is enough room forward of the axle to mount leaves, (but I'm sure someone could prove me wrong).
Anywhoo, it doesn't seem too aweful hard, just take out the ttb, and the mounts, cut the radius arms off, and weld them onto the solid axle, find some spring mounts (which I believe will be the hardest part), and re-locate the shock mounts. Oh, and reconfigure the steering linkages, (which I believe will also be tough).
I guess that about sums it up, please fill me in if I missed anything. I would like to get all the bugs worked out before hand, so it mkaes for a smooth transition.
Oh, also, will the radius arms from a 2wd tib work? (are they the same length?) That would be good, because my local junk yard only seems to have 2wd Rangers. I was thinkning I could pull the radius arms from a 2wd to weld to the new axle, and it would make it easy to have the new axle sitting there and ready to drop in, and all I would have to do is pull out all the old axle mounts and such.
Thanks for the input...
Anywhoo, it doesn't seem too aweful hard, just take out the ttb, and the mounts, cut the radius arms off, and weld them onto the solid axle, find some spring mounts (which I believe will be the hardest part), and re-locate the shock mounts. Oh, and reconfigure the steering linkages, (which I believe will also be tough).
I guess that about sums it up, please fill me in if I missed anything. I would like to get all the bugs worked out before hand, so it mkaes for a smooth transition.
Oh, also, will the radius arms from a 2wd tib work? (are they the same length?) That would be good, because my local junk yard only seems to have 2wd Rangers. I was thinkning I could pull the radius arms from a 2wd to weld to the new axle, and it would make it easy to have the new axle sitting there and ready to drop in, and all I would have to do is pull out all the old axle mounts and such.
Thanks for the input...
