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- 1994
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1994 2 door 4x4 4.0, 5 speed, push button t-case, 35 front, and 8.8 rear. The wheels and tires are 15x10 Primes with 265/70/15 tires, the front two are matched Yokohama's and the rears are unmatched tread but the same size. I got the wheels and tires for like 400 bucks and they had 3/4 tread on them. It has 148,000 miles on it and still runs strong. 4 1/2 years ago I bought a 5.5 inch Superlift kit for my 94 Ranger that had an identical drivetrain in it. Well I gave the Ranger to my mom when I moved to Florida and drove my 90 Cummins Dodge down. Fast forward to 2009 and while I was in Iraq working as a contractor me and my dad decided we needed to buy something to put the lift on as it was brand new setting in the box. I told him to find a 94 Extended cab Ranger or 2 door Explorer with a 4.0 (or a 2.3 cause I can get ALOT of race car parts cheap locally) with a 5 speed. I talk to dad the next day and low and behold he found one at our buddy's used car lot. Got it for 1500 bucks and they put a new water pump in it. It needed a new A/C condensor so dad put a new one in and some other small things. I got to find a good source to get a new set of rocker panels for it as the ones on it are shot cause it was originally from Pennsylvania...
Stock...
Stock with tube front bumper and box tubing rear bumper...
Tear down and assembly. Its a pain in the ass to do when your doing it by yourself...
Front lifted. I had to heavily modifiy a set of Ford Superduty brake lines so I didn't have to buy aftermarket ones...
Lifted but still needed the new lower shock tabs welded onto the axle, the rear sway bar mounted and the alignment...
On its maiden voyage with its new front bumper. I plan to make some type of grill guard for it eventually. It needs the alignment finished and and the rear sway bar put back on. I need to adjust the emergency brake cable also, it hangs up occasionally when you hit the brakes at low speed and locks up the left rear tire. Once I find a front center section with 3.73 gears and a rear axle with them I am going to swap it in, cause right now 30 inch tall tires is all those 3.2X gears want. I have a set of 33 all terrains, a set of 33 inch mud terrains, and a set of 35 inch all terrains I can mount on them, I just got to decide what tires I want to run, it will probably be the 33 inch AT's...
Some questions?
How did you do your rear sway bar?
Why does this thing waller around when driving straight down the road?
I'm gonna guess the front springs are going to sag some? I hope so cause right now I got all the camber in it that my balls joints will allow and its barely enough.
What did you guys do to stiffen up the rear springs, they are horribly soft, I am using the stock shocks with new shock brackets welded to the axle?
Will the road walk and occasional death wobble go away after the front springs settle and it gets a good alignment?
It will squawl the front tires if turning sharp at any speed...
It will death wobble and squawl the tires if I go over a hill or unload the front axle at any decent speed...
Stock...
Stock with tube front bumper and box tubing rear bumper...
Tear down and assembly. Its a pain in the ass to do when your doing it by yourself...
Front lifted. I had to heavily modifiy a set of Ford Superduty brake lines so I didn't have to buy aftermarket ones...
Lifted but still needed the new lower shock tabs welded onto the axle, the rear sway bar mounted and the alignment...
On its maiden voyage with its new front bumper. I plan to make some type of grill guard for it eventually. It needs the alignment finished and and the rear sway bar put back on. I need to adjust the emergency brake cable also, it hangs up occasionally when you hit the brakes at low speed and locks up the left rear tire. Once I find a front center section with 3.73 gears and a rear axle with them I am going to swap it in, cause right now 30 inch tall tires is all those 3.2X gears want. I have a set of 33 all terrains, a set of 33 inch mud terrains, and a set of 35 inch all terrains I can mount on them, I just got to decide what tires I want to run, it will probably be the 33 inch AT's...
Some questions?
How did you do your rear sway bar?
Why does this thing waller around when driving straight down the road?
I'm gonna guess the front springs are going to sag some? I hope so cause right now I got all the camber in it that my balls joints will allow and its barely enough.
What did you guys do to stiffen up the rear springs, they are horribly soft, I am using the stock shocks with new shock brackets welded to the axle?
Will the road walk and occasional death wobble go away after the front springs settle and it gets a good alignment?
It will squawl the front tires if turning sharp at any speed...
It will death wobble and squawl the tires if I go over a hill or unload the front axle at any decent speed...
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