84 Ranger SAS, narrow going to full width.

[bronco2guy]

Well i might as well start a thread about this, been at it all day today and will try and get some pics tommorow, my 84 Ranger has 76 Bronco axles under it currently, which r 4sale. I am setting the truck up for mud runs and lifting it more to clear 38's nicely. Putting in axles from 79 F-150, so i will be in same tracks as most the other mud runners in my area, instead of cutting my own rut on one side. I am building my own extended stock radius arms, have 1 done and 1 to finish tommorow. Today i mounted the 79 Coil buckets, after putting in spacer on the frame, i dropped my bracket a little , around 2in and using Duff 5.5 lift coils, appears will lift truck quite a bit. did some other work to frame around steering box, was cracking. Other odd end plans for truck are 5.13 gears, chromoly shafts, disc brakes in rear.

 

[bronco2guy]

 

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[scubasteve]

What do you have under the hood? What gears are you running in the axles?

 

[bronco2guy]

302 stroker *347*, 4.10 gears.

 

[bronco2guy]

 

[bronco2guy]

Today i mocked up the front, still using radius arms that came with truck, but im building my own set also, i mounted the buckets twice today which kinda sucked 1st time was mounted about inch and half higher, but when putting the 38s on was still a little tight, so went ahead and dropped them all the way, i think it looks real good, only big issue i see is header clearance near front pumpkin yoke? If anyone has had this problem with 302 with headers and fullwidth axles, let me know, or what headers do you have??

 

[bronco2guy]

 

[bronco2guy]

o and i borrowed the 2 front 38.5 boogers they have been grooved, just needed them for testing, wish they were mine.

 

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[pickuptrucker]

the boggers are b/a they look perfect on that truck!

 

[bronco2guy]

Yes I think the boggers look good also, and they are 38.5-11-15, but smaller lug has been grooved out, set i will get for now will be ungrooved.

 

[slammer67]

nice truck.
so your basically using the same type axles, only full width? Will every thing bolt up the same as the old axles?

and do you have 2 builds going on at once? heck, I been working on one truck for a year and still not done.

 

[bronco2guy]

yep I do have 2 builds going on, but this truck is priority to finsih this month, other truck will be couple months cause of $$$ needed, u could count a 3rd build, cause bought stock bronco 2 to run in the mean time and i keep upgrading it and fixing things on it also.
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As far as swapping to full width goes, you have to space out coil bucket towers, it orginal on other swap was using stock towers, i don't like that setup with SAS, so using 79 Bucket towers, building new track bar, just because was not happy with design of 1st one, i have 1 in 1/4 3/8 wall DOM im using for the track bar, i am threading it and using 3/4 heims.

Done currenty:

1. Spaced out coil buckets on frame, bolted and welded
2. reinforced frame where track bar & steering box mount
3: Track bar built
4: 1 stock extended radius arm redone
4: Springs changed in rear
5: New block added to rear last night gain 1 more inch

To do list:
1: Build 2nd extend radius arm
2: Build drop braket spacers for radius arm mounts
3: Finish trac bar,
4: Mount front shock Mounts and shocks
5: install extend brake line
6: Rear shock tower Mounts
7: rear shock lower axle mounts
8: Disc brake rear conversion
9: Install front and rear 5.13 gears, full spool rear, front aussie
10: Lots of misc, but those are big pending things, should have all other than gears done this weekend.