Coil springs

Xandor · Oct 29, 2009

My BII has a 3in lift, and the way the front end sits the bottom of the tires are bent out much further than the top. Sorta like its squating, if you understand what I'm trying to say. Anyways I was told this is probably because I have the stock coil springs.

So I have been looking for 3in coil spring and can only seem to find 4in spring. Would there be any negatve affect if I jammed 4in ones under there?

Downey · Oct 29, 2009

you will never get the truck aligned with 4 inch coils stuffed in there find a 2 inch lift coil get them thought summitracing.com there about 120 bucks and should solve your problem

martin · Oct 30, 2009

Need some clarification here. do you mean you have lift brackets but not the springs? A picture of the front suspension would help to answer your question.

trail B2 · Oct 30, 2009

Thats called camber, is it the height of the vehicle where you want it? That is adjustable up to three degrees by buying an adjustable camber kit.My bronco has shims on the springs and I got at least 2" lift because of my explorer springs also.The point being you can adjust two or three inches on the travel if you want but if you want more lift you need the hole lift kit to move the pivot point.

trail B2 · Oct 30, 2009

Thats called camber, is it the height of the vehicle where you want it? That is adjustable up to three degrees by buying an adjustable camber kit.My bronco has shims on the springs and I got at least 2" lift because of my explorer springs also.The point being you can adjust two or three inches on the travel if you want but if you want more lift you need the hole lift kit to move the pivot point.

Ridgecrest · Oct 31, 2009

Mine has the exact same deal from a hillbilly lift kit gone wrong and 4 wheel parts preformance center is gonna fix mine but to be honest tire wear isnt bad and it muds well and gets me to work well so im still putting it off

Xandor · Nov 3, 2009

Well the lift kit was done right they just never gave it new coil springs. I'd like to know where they got the 3in lift though because the only springs I found are 4in or 2in lift. So I ordered 2in lift springs.

I hope this helps the ride also because Every little rock I hit I feel. I have Rough Country shocks on there but the ride is realy bad. never had a 4x4 but someone all 4x4 ride just as bad as mine. Somehow I don't see that. Not a joke at all, I was driving down the road at about 40MPH, went over some RR tracks and about rolled it. My screamed, then yelled at me like it was my fault. It had a little to do with a totaly shot rag joint but still, it shouldt be that bad.

Would buying some crazy expensive shocks help that much?

Also a side question, I'm looking for explorer leaf spring and I was wonderin what year explorer will have the kind I need?

short bus · Nov 6, 2009

I took all my springs (coils and leaf) off a 91 exloder and got 2in of lift

88_Eddie · Nov 6, 2009

short bus said:
I took all my springs (coils and leaf) off a 91 exloder and got 2in of lift

not to steal the thread here, but what else did you have to change when you did this short bus? do you need the TTB drop brackets or lowered radius arms? i'm looking into using exploder springs myself. how much did you have to pay for them all?

88_Eddie · Nov 6, 2009

Xandor said:
My BII has a 3in lift, and the way the front end sits the bottom of the tires are bent out much further than the top. Sorta like its squating, if you understand what I'm trying to say. Anyways I was told this is probably because I have the stock coil springs.

So I have been looking for 3in coil spring and can only seem to find 4in spring. Would there be any negatve affect if I jammed 4in ones under there?

i completely forgot that i was lookin at this kit on jcwhitney.com about a month back

here's the link to it, it may be too much for you. i know you said you already ordered new ones but i thought i'd show it to you anyhow.
http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac134/88_Eddie/I_947759_CL_1.jpg

short bus · Nov 8, 2009

I didnt change a thing on the brackets just the springs . I did change the to a 35 and a 8.8 but left all the same brackets rivited

Coil springs

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