99 ranger lowering

[fordtech91]

Does nobody seriously make drop spindles for the 98-00 ranger?? I found lift spindles and I found drop I-beams for older rangers but no luck on drop spindles....

 

[Merrill]

Been looking in to this myself. Depending on how low you want to go looks like it is shorter coils or deeper pocket lower control arms in front and axle swap above the rear springs and different shackles. DJM seems to be a popular supplier.

 

[fordtech91]

Yea that is all I am finding too just wondering if anyone out there heard of drop spindles for my year. I don't plan on going very low I think im going to try shackle flip and then decide what to do with the front. Just tossing ideas around right now.

 

[Insanejughead]

Drop spindles aren't made for rangers. Sorry man, but that's how it is.

 

[slammedxonair]

I had a manufacturer quote me to build drop spindles but they wanted $7000 just to tool up making the casing molds and the CNC programming. That price did not even include the protype. There are some issues involved with doing a drop spindle on a ranger and drop control arms are the easiest fix to lowering as they raise the balljoint locations 2" which lowers the truck. With that said Max at Bio Kustoms will modify stock Ranger spindles for a 1.75" drop for around a grand.

 

[joey7478]

lower control arms

I had a manufacturer quote me to build drop spindles but they wanted $7000 just to tool up making the casing molds and the CNC programming. That price did not even include the protype. There are some issues involved with doing a drop spindle on a ranger and drop control arms are the easiest fix to lowering as they raise the balljoint locations 2" which lowers the truck. With that said Max at Bio Kustoms will modify stock Ranger spindles for a 1.75" drop for around a grand.

Two questions. If you use the 2 inch lower arms do you use the stock shocks and do you have to replace the upper arms? Thank!

 

[stmitch]

If you use only the lower control arms, with stock coils springs, you could probably keep stock shocks.
If you just want a 2 inch drop, It's cheaper and easier to just get drop springs. Or cut your stock springs.