Why cant i find replacment axle beams for 1994 2wd XLT

[jamesDS]

Recently went in the ditch and bent up the front end , need to replace axle beams / I beams, but they seem to be impossible to find.
Can someone please help . Or at least tell me why I'm wrong...
1994 2wd XLT. RANGER

 

[racsan]

Probably because its 30 years old, parts become obsolete. It shouldn’t be to hard to find used parts though.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Recently went in the ditch and bent up the front end , need to replace axle beams / I beams, but they seem to be impossible to find.
Can someone please help . Or at least tell me why I'm wrong...
1994 2wd XLT. RANGER

www.car-part.com

I dont think anyone sells new OEM style beams anymore.

Did you bend the beam itself or the radius arm? Because i believe radius arms are available new.

Either way musta been a helluva hit

 

[JoshT]

I'd agree with used being your best bet for finding replacements, and with the radius arm question. Bent radius arm is more likely. If it did hit hard enough to bend the beam, the radius arm is probably toast too.

If all else fails, DJM still makes the 3" drop beams.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I'd agree with used being your best bet for finding replacements, and with the radius arm question. Bent radius arm is more likely. If it did hit hard enough to bend the beam, the radius arm is probably toast too.

If all else fails, DJM still makes the 3" drop beams.

If it bent the beam id think alot of stuff would be mangled.

My buddy ran his 89 F150 off the road into a ditch and literally smoked a rock at like 20 with the beam. It surived fine lol.

 

[Curious Hound]

Junk yards, FB Marketplace and Craigslist are your friends.

 

[SenorNoob]

I thought 2wd beams were cast? Wouldn't that more likely break than bend?

But yes, junkyard. The kind you get parts yourself.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I thought 2wd beams were cast? Wouldn't that more likely break than bend?

But yes, junkyard. The kind you get parts yourself.

IIRC some are forged.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

IIRC some are forged.

Didnt they quit forging beams after like 82?

Maybe 79...somewhere in that neighboorhood.

I didnt figure rangers ever had them

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Pretty sure I have seen them marked "Forged" before.

Not sure on the specifics though.

Cast could be cast steel which behaves differently than cast iron too.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Pretty sure I have seen them marked "Forged" before.

Not sure on the specifics though.

Cast could be cast steel which behaves differently than cast iron too.

Maybe i never paid alot of attention then.

I just know what ive seen from mid 80's onward (never went under an early 80's truck) all had "DO NOT HEAT WELD OR BEND" (something like that) stamped on them. Figured those were cast as heating and bending was literally how you aligned the kingpin trucks with forged beams

 

[scotts90ranger]

When I got my '97 it had a bent beam, I asked when I picked it up how they did it and it was in a ditch and they pulled it out with a chain on the center of one of the beams... I went to the junkyard on a 1/2 off weekend and grabbed a whole beam with caliper and everything for like $35... I'm not in the rust belt so it was easy. If they weren't big and awkward and if I actually had free time I'd offer to grab one from a local junkyard...