2008 ranger sport- lowering kit

[justinp21]

Ok ive been through lots of websites, and looked through the tech guide, and im still looking for lowering kits for the 2008 ranger sports. It sits on the torsion bar suspension which is making it impossible to find kits for it.

Ive already taken the rear axle blocks out and cranked down the torsion in the front 2 inches, and cant go anymore. Any one know of any kits?

Thanks JP

 

[Casper98]

nope no kits, you could fab up some coil over mounts and get rid of the torsion bars if you have the money

 

[Jon581]

so i guess there is no kit for my 07 either?

 

[Casper98]

not if it has Torsion bars

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

i can trade u my 99 sport for your sport mine doesnt has ttb u can lower it all u want!

 

[Jon581]

not if it has Torsion bars

i doubt they changed anything from 07 to 08 and mine is the same model as the OP

 

[Jon581]

Justin
can you take some pics of what exactly you did to lower your truck
thanks

 

[Casper98]

do some coil overs lol

http://www.generation-edge.info/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9718

 

[Fx4wannabe01]

coil overs + custom upper arms and modded lower arm for proper ball joint angles. yup! only way to lower an edge correctly.

I'm sure someone will eventually mentioned lowering keys that give you proper alignment specs....that's complete lie.

 

[justinp21]

Justin
can you take some pics of what exactly you did to lower your truck
thanks

Hey Jon, were in the same boat on this one, you have the torsion bar suspension, as I can see the sport symbol on the side.

As for the way I lowered my front end it can be found here:http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/TorsionBar.html
number 8 on the scale is the bolt that I adjusted. Looking under will look like this:

Its in the middle of the 4 torsion bar protector. Jack it up and losen the bolt in the middle there on each side. What I did to try and keep them even was turned the wrech half turn (ie 180 degrees) and counted about 5-6 those. Put the front end down, and drive it around.

Also do not use the jack locations on the control arms, as those are controlled by the torsion bar suspension. I used the main beam in the middle under the power steering control arm. I took 2 jacks spaced them on each side and blocked wood under.

For the rear,I put 2 jacks on each side of the axle on the leaf spring (the jacks are placed to lift the leaf, not the axle, and jacked it up, took the tire off, put axle stand under axle and loosened off the u bolt nuts. Once I removed the u bolts, I jacked the leafs up more. Then there should be a block in between the axle and the leaf spring, looks like this :

Take that block out and lower each jack down slowly, make sure to line up the nub on top of the axle with the hole in the leaf, should lower down no problem. Its recommended that you use new ubolts, but i reused mine as mine only had 26000 km s on them, and torqued them to i believe 70-80 ft ibs.

Since have had no problems, and alignment was little off , pulled to the right so i loosened the left torsion a touch. Other than that the suspension will stiffen up, and i noticed much better handling.

Hope that helps.

JP


I hope this makes sense.

 

[Jon581]

yes it does i'm gonna have to do that

thanks for the help

 

[justinp21]

yes it does i'm gonna have to do that

thanks for the help

No problem with all the tools at hand, it takes bout hour and half.
JP