dangerranger1983 build

[Boggin]

yeah ill get the complete jeep if i do the swap

 

[kroussinoffroad]

are you still intrested in the lift or is this a future plan ?
cuz if your thinkin sas i think you will be farther along if you were to cut right to it.
just keep in touch

 

[Boggin]

nope, deffinetly still into the lift!

 

[escort_gts]

I agree, need to put the new wheels and tires on

 

[dangerranger83]

After this friday when I get paid and pay my truck insurance and other stuff I'll hopefully have them on the truck. Forgot to order the center caps for them but then thats just more chrome that I have to take care of. Hope it wont turn it into to much of a dog but I assume it will. As far as the headers, well, those are going on mine but could be fun to put on but thats this springs job.

And if I already havent said, going to use my tax check to help save for a newer ranger. Decided a diesel swap is out of my legue right now and more then I want to do. Want a Gen3 up to 97. Yes I would rather have TTB then IFS. Extended cab 4wd 4.0 also. Am I asking to much nope. Dad got his new one and is making payments of just over $200 a month for 3 years. Now to find one. If im going to get another ranger, its going to be what I want.

Now I dont know how good my welds look on my track bar mount for my axle but I will say I have put it through alot and so far all is good.

As far as aliginment, how would I go about doing it myself? I know a mechinic would do nothing but judge it and I dont like other people to work on my truck plus I would like to learn how to do it myself.

 

[escort_gts]

About all you will be able to do is the toe on your own.
Basicly you need to measure the distance between the tires front to back, making them as close to the same as posible.

 

[dangerranger83]

The only thing that it has is a bit of toe in so that shouldnt be to hard to do. Just find a common tread on the rear tires that matches the front and should be good to go.

Had a rarly nice flex shot (most flex I have done) but my camera died when I turned it on so no picks right now. Save that for when I have the new tires put on.

 

[yodaman1151]

How did I miss this?! I though for sure I'd beat you on putting my axle in. Looks good man. I'm looking at a couple more weeks till mines done gonna go for a weekend project which scares me cuz it took you awhile and you had premade arms. I'm doing a custom crossmember and custom arms and swapping in a 8.8 at the same time.

Can you take a ton of pics of your track bar and link mounts on the frame? Those are the hardest things to find pics of online...

 

[dangerranger83]

Ya I can get you pics of all that. I will say that my design may be ugly but it does work good. Just remember though Im using a factory trackbar. But how its mounted to the frame was about the best way that I could think if. Only wlded it to the lower part of the frame to keep it from further flexing. Could bolt it but getting my hand inside the boxed part of the frame just wasnt going to happen.

In the mean time, going to be calling a place here in a few min to check there rates on my tire setup Im going to be having them do.

As for doing this in a weekend front and rear, hope you plan on staying up the enire time and have a buddy or two to help out. I did have help on my rear lift but not my front. Another thing that took extra time was after the lift, finding and ordering plus waiting for the shocks to arrive.

Another thing on shocks is I relize that I need to modifiy the mount so that I can get more up travel on front ones. I think they are compressing all the way and not allowing to get the most flex I can out of my setup.

 

[yodaman1151]

yeah i've got a guest list if you will of people begging to help me... feels kinda nice ha ha The rear will be fairly simple just gotta weld perches on top. it will be tough making the trackbar mount, trackbar, radius arms, crossmember including link brackets, link brackets themselves.... ive got it all drawn out and plan on fabbing the brackets and what not before actually tearing into it... shocks have been a bug in the back of my mind but i think the guys at 4wheelparts will hook me up with some cheap limiting straps... i mean shocks ha ha

could you maybe do some measurements on the trackbar mount as well like how far below the frame it sits?
thanks

 

[dangerranger83]

PICS OF MY NEW TIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Speedometer now reads 10mph slower aka 50% error. They bite the road so go that Im slipping because it eats off the top layer of snow on my neighborhood roads and exposes the ice under it. Going to use my old tires and rims as weights now until I go buy so sand bags.

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As for the trackbar mount, my measurements will be different from other peoples. It was all made around how the trackbar is suppose to mount. Mor details on that........I first hooked up my steering linkage. Next I bolted my trackbar to my axle then made it parallel with the draglink ,make sure the are parallel with eachother. Why you do this is because the dranglink and track bar need to move in the same arch as eachothe. Having one longer/shorter then the othe will disrupt this and not having them parallel will do the same. But since I used factory parts for this, didnt have to worry to much about all this.

As fort longarm mounts, ordered mine from balisticfab.com but got the angle iron and all my other metal from a local supplier. You can make your own longarm mounts for cheaper.

Heres pics of my trackbar mount, ya its rusted a bit and looks ugly but it works great. I will probably be re-making it this summer.

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[escort_gts]

hmm? that track bar bracket looks familiar

 

[escort_gts]

Tires look nice, now you just need to make the truck all one color ..

 

[84stealthranger]

yeah tires look sick on there now we need some off road pics

 

[chrwilkins30]

those tires made a big difference.
I cannot stop looking at this picture.