Dana 30 Lift options?

[MudSlanger]

Im in the process of gathering all my parts for the front axle swap. Ive opted to beef up a dana 30 out of a Jeep ZJ for a few reasons, it has about the same width as the ranger axle and same wheel bolt pattern. I wanted to keep this swap as simple as possible without having to do other modifications(ie: narrowing, buying wheel spacers, ect). Now Ive come to the point of the swap where Im looking in to lift suspension parts. Im currently running an AAL and chevy shackles in the rear on the stock block. That puts me at about 4-5inch lift in the rear. I have the dana 35 in the front with the RCD(coilover, torsion bar delete)/Superlift lift(lift brackets) all sitting on 35inch tires. Also want to add that the truck has a 5.0 V8 swap so to help better determine what kind of weight ive got in the front end. Im planning on running coil springs in the front as opposed to leaf springs. Now, what would be my best route to take to get this dana 30 solid axle at a lift of about 4-5 inches?? Thanks for the help

 

[88_Eddie]

i'm doing a D30 swap right now as well......i'd get some 4.5"-5.5" xj coils and run them. if you need more lift you can always throw some coil spacers in there as well.

 

[4.0B2]

yeah XJ 5.5 inch lift coils... if those are to soft you can always go with a EB lift coil.

 

[MudSlanger]

ok ill try the XJ 5.5 lift coils with the bilstein 5100 shocks for now and see how i like them thanks

 

[dangerranger83]

Im running XJ 6.5 lift coils and got 5 inches of suspension lift when I did my D30 SAS and Im running a 2.8 under the hood of my truck....that is until I do my 5.0 swap here in a few months or so.

BTW what are the specs of your V8 swap? Have a build thread or anything of that nature?

 

[MudSlanger]

Im running XJ 6.5 lift coils and got 5 inches of suspension lift when I did my D30 SAS and Im running a 2.8 under the hood of my truck....that is until I do my 5.0 swap here in a few months or so.

BTW what are the specs of your V8 swap? Have a build thread or anything of that nature?

Picture whoring time

Anyway, my write up is in the tech library if you havent seen it yet(I noticed you posted in this thread a while ago):
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57761 & http://www.therangerstation.com/Magazine/Fall2009/explorer_v8_swap.htm