97 silver bullet

[B II Ian]

This isnt my ranger it is my brothers. this was a budget build and used spare parts laying around to put together and works great

started out as just a cheep winter beater so my brother didnt have to deal with cold starting his f350 deisel, and keep it out of the salt we have on our roads during the snowy months of winter



In the spring we put 33 12.5s on and than figured it needed more lift and suspention travel



so under the knife it went.

we put radius arms from a early 2000s f250 2wd superduty in which are beefy and are alot longer than the stock ranger radius arms. we found switching left for right and flipping them upside down that it will provide with lots of castor angle


cut out the lower ball joint hole out of the i beam and moved out 1/2" to help adjust camber, and also put adjustable camber bushings in for the upper ball joint



welded in and plated



for coil springs there were some old unknown progressive coils kicking around that worked perfect. also had a bunch of different coil spring retainers with different heights to get the truck to sit level in the front.





over all the truck sat about 2 1/2" to 3" taller. the rear shackles were custom extended to level the back with the front



so when it was all said and done we did some trail riding and rides real nice.
also takes our table top jump like a champ





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[swynx]

Awesome! Any Fab work to get the radius arms to work?

 

[B II Ian]

Had to make a new trany crossmember, there is a lip on the top of the radius arms so we cut that off and re welded, on the passenger side frame rail there is a lip for exhaust clearance so that got cut off. Other than those it was pretty strait forward. We used the radius arm brackets and bolts from the truck we robbed them from

 

[swynx]

How do you like those tires? I thought about buying a set.

 

[B II Ian]

They work good. They are quiet on the road, work good in mud, sand and grip on rock, and are just like any other mud tire in snow. They wear realy good and last on the light truck