Advantages to a SAS

[4x4junkie]

For awhile.

They love to do this /--o-\ when they get some age on them. Mine does it with the factory stuff, I need new put in new springs, then I have to try to find somebody that knows how to align it.

That is my #1 qualm about the TTB. A close second is it makes a handy snow/mud plow.

IMO the only advantage to the TTB is it came there from the factory, there is no reason I would rip out a solid axle and put in a TTB.

Trying to find an alignment person who's actually competent can be a challenge sometimes... I certainly agree (I strongly suspect it's a lack of proper training given in regards to Twin-Beam suspensions).

Instead I just do it myself, avoiding that whole hassle. If the tires are simply getting like /--o-\ , stick a couple washers under the lower coil perches. Done deal. Make sure it's not because your bushings are shot first though.

As for ripping out solid axles for TTB, it's been done... I know of both a '79 F-250 and a Jeep Grand Cherokee I saw over on Race-Desert.com or another site like that that had D44 TTBs. I seem to recall seeing an '80s Chevy with one too (had a Ford t-case (208 I think?) swapped in as well). If you're into jumping and going fast, a solid axle with it's unsprung weight can be a considerable handicap.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Trying to find an alignment person who's actually competent can be a challenge sometimes... I certainly agree (I strongly suspect it's a lack of proper training given in regards to Twin-Beam suspensions).

Instead I just do it myself, avoiding that whole hassle. If the tires are simply getting like /--o-\ , stick a couple washers under the lower coil perches. Done deal. Make sure it's not because your bushings are shot first though.

As for ripping out solid axles for TTB, it's been done... I know of both a '79 F-250 and a Jeep Grand Cherokee I saw over on Race-Desert.com or another site like that that had D44 TTBs. I seem to recall seeing an '80s Chevy with one too (had a Ford t-case (208 I think?) swapped in as well). If you're into jumping and going fast, a solid axle with it's unsprung weight can be a considerable handicap.

I am thinking about grabbing leveling springs after I get my V-8 in, which will in itself also effect the alignment. I don't drive it much so I am not too worried about it right now, I imagine after 24 years it probably needs a full round of everything, I just changed the factory nongreasable TRE's two years ago. It is a really common thing to see the funny tilted wheels in old Fords though.

Desert racing is one thing, but most of the country doesn't have much of a desert to race in... the only way anyone could go more than a couple miles here without hitting a gravel road is driving thru thick timber with a ravine somewhere inside. Otherwise about every mile on the mile (there are a couple double sections) there is a gravel road with cropground or pasture on each side.

 

[dangerranger83]

I dont live anywhere near a desert. The only fun I have is splashing my Ranger in a mud puddle. Basicly I live on the land of the FLAT....nuthin but corn fields and those new wind turbines.

 

[Boggin]

I dont live anywhere near a desert. The only fun I have is splashing my Ranger in a mud puddle. Basicly I live on the land of the FLAT....nuthin but corn fields and those new wind turbines.

x2, everything on newfoundland pretty much is BOG, deep, bottomless, bog