87 mazda sas swap

[mazdafamily]

hello i am new to this site i am 21 and i have some weird obsession with mazda truck dont know why, maybe my mom droped me as a child. o well.
i have had about 12 mazda trucks and i thing it is about time for a sas swap to one my first attempt went ok, i had to extend the frame to hold the stock toyota spring it was about a 12inch lift over stock, but when it came time for the rear the frame was a little too rotted to take the lift and she gave way.

so for the second try i got a new mazda, great frame and i have decide z71 leafs in the rear and 4 link with a panhard bar with coil on the front,

i test fitted the rear leafs today in the rain and have found that i want to get them arched, i work night so i work on the truck like a hour a day right now.

i am using toyota axles for this project and i am happy with them they keep the 6 bolt patten and are the right with for the truck. but the rebuild was pricey.

 

[88_Eddie]

dont forget to upgrade those birfields

 

[kris97ranger]

gay! it needs the 318....
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Weed bubblers

 

[Boggin]

that is awesome i got a 93 same color green only reg cab. 5 spd. love that truck, fried the clutch in her or something, i was wheelin an hooked on a stump an was dumping the clutch and then in an instant wen i dumped her nothing happened she just revved up like she was in neutral. id love to get her going again someday, these trucks are awesome

oh wait, this is your thread lol SORRY.
if ya need any parts pm me

 

[slammer67]

12 mazdas and your 21? what do you wreck like 3 a year or what? lol

good project - I was looking at toy axles, but the ones I had were like 5" narrower than the waggy axle I used, maybe with wheel spacers they could've worked.

You had to extend the frame for the toy springs?
I have toy springs and my front spring hangers are not even close to the end of the frame, like 3-4" back. that's with stretching the wheelbase 2" forward.
even if you were using toy rear springs, which are like 3" longer, I don't see how you'd need to lengthen the frame

my toy springs started out looking like that - almost level, but after a year, they are actually in a negative arch, so you might lose some of that lift.
I had an extra spring in my pack also.

anyway, good luck with the build

 

[kris97ranger]

he streched his wheelbase 2" on the front but ya still had to extend it quite a bit. but it was also seperate from his bumper cause he didnt want to have to undo the suspension to take off the front bumper.

plans have all changed now. hes using chevy springs re-arched 7" out back. and ranger 6" coils and a 4 link up front. i doubt were running a block and may have to run the springs under the rear axle to be able to get long enough shackles to actually use the length of the chevy spings
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[mazdafamily]

may that sucks about you taking the clutch out of the mazda not only are they a bitch to get out they are expensive too, i have one sitting in a truck in my drive way that is heading for scrap if you did not live so far away i would say come and remove it and it yours it is a 93 motor as well but the gears are gone in it, only 1st and 2 nd are left in the tranz

 

[mazdafamily]

front end

You had to extend the frame for the toy springs?
I have toy springs and my front spring hangers are not even close to the end of the frame, like 3-4" back. that's with stretching the wheelbase 2" forward.
even if you were using toy rear springs, which are like 3" longer, I don't see how you'd need to lengthen the frame

i dont know how to do the quite thing yet

i used the stock toyota front spring out of a 83 toyota sr5 but i add 3 leafs just for height, my plan at the begin was height no flex and in a year or so then flex it up but plans changed! the frame extenders not only extended the frame about 6 inchs it mover the leaf mounts 6 inches down so i got a huge life from it. it is not stick out past my bumper and when the stock bumper when on it looked almost stock, not the lift looked stock but the extension looked stock

 

[kris97ranger]

zac man u gotta keep ur pics going down instead of across haha. and u duno how to what thing yet? quote someone?
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HOTTYMESS

 

[Toreadorranger]

go back and hit enter between all your pictures. so they are below each other instead of going off the screen

 

[kris97ranger]

i stopped by while u were at work today and i still think were gonna have to run the spring under the axle. u keep the long shackles so you can actually get the full potential of those leafs and its not retarded high. if we go sping over axle its gonna be taller then the 1st one. and that one fit 40s. all u wanna run was 35s isnt it?
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SEX_DEEP CAM

 

[mazdafamily]

i hung the rear leafs, i had to build new front leaf mounts but i thought i could get away with using the stock rear ones nope. i will have to cut and move the rear leaf mounts to a new location but over all the day went very well

but the drive shaft is too short now so i will have to fix that at a later date

 

[kris97ranger]

which rear end is in there now?
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[mazdafamily]

mazda rear end still

 

[mazdafamily]

rear end done

the day was spent moving the rear mount around and welding but the most fun was playing with the jack at the end of the day

that is kris every one say hi to kris (kris97ranger)