97 reg cab trail rig build

[97-cobra/ranger]

Exactly. I love my TTB lol

What size tires, gears, and locker in your ttb ? How's it holding up? How hard do you wheel it?

 

[brinker88]

4.56's, OPEN carrier (might put an Aussie in her), Warn 37780 hubs, c-clip eliminator (external spring), 760X joints (need to tack the caps in yet).

Running 35x12.50xR15 KM2's on MT classic II's with 3.5" backspacing.

I wheel the PISS out of this thing and am happy to say I've only broken milemarker hubs and bent up my steering multiple times.

 

[97TrailRigDD]

I like the way your bumper turned out. Is there a fairlead behind there?

Are you wanting to hit the trails this weekend? Going to Wishbone in Bowling Green Saturday and camping Saturday night and then maybe Interlake Sunday.

 

[railman]

ask Greg or Dustin...I rocked the TTB with extended arms and the stock 3.73's with 32" tires and a locker forever.....until the locker died...then I swapped in an EX 8.8 and welded the spiders...all while still a DD...

but, now she has been retired to just trailrig status....so I went FW and D60's...

rest is history

like Greg said...try to come down to Wishbone this weekend...I will be there Friday...

can't wait to meet ya...

l8r, John

 

[97-cobra/ranger]

I would go down there but that's farther than i feel comfortable driving for fear of breaking something. I might go to interlake Sunday tho. And Greg, no there isnt a failed anywhere on the bumper yet. I need to get something on there similar to the style ur truck has.

 

[97TrailRigDD]

I used a tube fairlead for a while. Just put small vertical pieces of tube on each side of the cable about 8 inches apart. On a hard pull the cable will start to make marks in the tube put it will last for a long time.

 

[97-cobra/ranger]

That's what i wanted to do originally. I'll probably go with something like that.

 

[97TrailRigDD]

Here is a video I took of Bryant's truck at Interlake off road park today. He did really good considering he is open open.

 

[97TrailRigDD]

For some reason it didn't load the whole video.

 

[97-cobra/ranger]

Bringing this back from the dead:

Haven't done much to this thing since my last update, just maintenance. I'm getting ready to sas swap it though. Picked up a fw dana 44 tonight and some early bronco radius arms yesterday. The axle is gonna pretty much need a complete rebuild. I plan on using a fw 8.8 in the rear. Gonna gear it with 4.88s and run at least 35s, maybe 37s. What do u guys think about air shocks in the front? A buddy is offering to sell mesome sway-a-way air shocks for $200 for the pair.

 

[97-cobra/ranger]

Well I bought another d44 FI but this time it's been completely rebuilt already. It has 4.09 gears and a limited slip. I plan on swapping out to 4.88s and leave the l/s for now. I also got some 36" radius arms with heims, ruff stuff 1 ton gm tie rod steering kit with dom tubing, ruff stuff track bar kit, and 8.8 axle swap kit. I'll hopefully be picking up some 63" Chevy leaves and a FW 8.8 at the junkyard this weekend. I still need front coils, brakes calipers for the front, and brake lines, and I need to figure something out with the coil buckets. What's the best and most affordable route for a good coil bucket that won't make the coils bow? I'm gonna be running 35s, can anyone suggest a coil spring that flexes good and will clear 35s? I was looking at the wild horse 4th EB springs but don't know if I should get 5.5" or 4.5". Anyway here's some pics.

 

[Laybaks402]

ive heard duff coils are good and flexy and the wild horse are good but stiff road manners (all hear say)

 

[RockRanger]

Good pickup. My 8" skyjacker TJ springs are great offroad but too soft on the street.

 

[RangerSVT]

Nice build, you should hit up turkey bay on a weekend. 190-250 ppi is what your looking for. XJ coils work great, no mods. Im using rough country XJ 190 coils on a truck I'm building now...

SVT

 

[97-cobra/ranger]

Svt, if I use the X coils and stock coil buckets on the frame side will my coils bow out since the d44 is wider? I saw some heavy duty coil retainers for the radius arm side on James Duff that I thought said can move the radius arms spring perch inward. Does that sound right? Or is it necessary?

edit: oh and I'm about 10 mins from interlake, I live in Boonville if u know where that is.