2 SAS Rangers wheeling in Oregon

[wellcom2knoxvile]

as many of you know ive been SAS'd for a while, but recently my friend ben (has a 94 Ranger) wanted to SAS his rig, so he bought some axles! full width d44 and 9 inch... same setup as mine! he goes to Oregon State with me but is from Cali. all his buddies wheel rocks and love the Rubicon Trail so he wanted a super low COG for his truck. he bought some 37 inch PITBULLS and the goal was about 6 inches of lift and full capability! we had to cut a lot of fender but it worked awesome! 3 weeks ago we flew down to Oakland, CA on a thursday night, and did the ENTIRE SAS in 2 days! worked all day saturday, drove it around that night and fine tuned it sunday! then on monday we drove it back from CA to oregon, 10 hour drive with the only incident was the water pump grenanding after we reached Corvallis! so yesterday was the first time taking his truck out, we rounded up the troops and headed out to our favorite wheeling spot .. bens truck did fairly well without being geared or locket yet. he is doing 5.13s and detroits very soon.my buddy got some OK pics, there are a bunch more on a friends camera... not to many action shots, but ill add more later!! ENJOY!

^^theres a cute pic of ben! haha

 

[zukirider21]

got any more specs on the trucks? like what axles were used and how they were mounted, etc.

 

[wellcom2knoxvile]

both trucks are running 79 dana 44 front axle and 79 ford 9 inch rear axles... all axles are full width. white truck (mine) has 5.13s, spooled front and powertrax rear locker... the black truck is open open and stock gearing at the moment, will be geared to 5.13s and detroits front and rear.... both are running chevy 63 inch chevys rear.. and both have coils in front... the black truck is gettin 14 inch FOA coilovers and the white truck is gettin 16 inch FOA air shocks soon. both trucks are running Rubicon Express RE1620 track bars.

 

[adsm08]

Man, I wish we had spots like that here to go wheeling.

 

[Chance]

I swear, every single spot in Oregon looks exactly like this... I love the stance of his ranger though... oh so perfect

 

[86 slo-vo]

ya'll suck....thats all i have to say

wish we had trails like that all around us

 

[zukirider21]

both trucks are running 79 dana 44 front axle and 79 ford 9 inch rear axles... all axles are full width. white truck (mine) has 5.13s, spooled front and powertrax rear locker... the black truck is open open and stock gearing at the moment, will be geared to 5.13s and detroits front and rear.... both are running chevy 63 inch chevys rear.. and both have coils in front... the black truck is gettin 14 inch FOA coilovers and the white truck is gettin 16 inch FOA air shocks soon. both trucks are running Rubicon Express RE1620 track bars.

NICE!

i always wished i could have the convenience of being able to use abundant full width axles, but in nj youre not "supposed" to have your tires extend past the fenders. in all honesty, a few inches is really no problem, but a fullwidth axle is out of the question.

but now that i think about it, that black truck doesn't look too wide, so im thinking if i ran wheels with HUGE backspacing and got some fiberglass prerunner fenders, i might be able to pull it off? any thoughts?

 

[adsm08]

Do it!

 

[SnC RangeR]

awsome trucks man. i want a full width ford 9in so bad i cant stand it!

 

[pjtoledo]

bullet holes? or battle scars?




Perry

 

[Chance]

NICE!

i always wished i could have the convenience of being able to use abundant full width axles, but in nj youre not "supposed" to have your tires extend past the fenders. in all honesty, a few inches is really no problem, but a fullwidth axle is out of the question.

but now that i think about it, that black truck doesn't look too wide, so im thinking if i ran wheels with HUGE backspacing and got some fiberglass prerunner fenders, i might be able to pull it off? any thoughts?

Oregon is pretty bad about fender laws... some cops don't care, but some will bust you around here... I believe we have the entire tire covered law here too

 

[wellcom2knoxvile]

ok heres some more pics.. we also lifted my buddys jeep over christmas break... took 2 days... rough country 4.5 with 32s.... still is open open and hes looking to lock it up soon... it does real good on the trails because of the short wheelbase! tons of fun to drive. next thing to do is remove the sway bars on it!.. We also ran into a Oregon State Trooper. he was rolling in an 08 super duty, very cool looking! we talked to him for a while and he assured us that all the forest roads were ok for us to be on so im glad we straightned that out... anyways. here are the pics.

 

[bmonee5]

man i swear i've been to some of these area's...but i'm sure it all looks the same what area are you in? BTW those are some nice looking rangers!

 

[Andres629]

Wicked looking rigs, and some awesome looking spots too!