Need new coil springs (lifted suspension)

[High Desert Ranger]

So after the adventures of newpaper deliveries in Phelan I find that my truck has a significant lean to the passenger side. Basically i've damaged my coil springs. I can see where one of the the lower smaller coils is collapsed up inside one of the larger coils just up from it.

I've been looking at the Skyjacker 4" lift coils to replace the lift coils that came with my 4" Rough Country lift kit. I comments on these coils and is ther something better that is affordable.

 

[Todd]

What do you do with this truck? Drive it on the street and wheel it some, or do you pound the snot out of it and want the most flex you can get out of the bugger?

If its the later of the two I would say get some XJ coils. After seeing how Wills and Junkies BIIs preformed I went this rought and love the performance.

EB coils I have heard also work well and if you have an ext-cab ranger a little stiffer coil then an XJ should be used. After running TTB lift coils and seeing many other lifted TTBs with TTB coils I can say all of them are too stiff!!!!!!!!!!

 

[4x4junkie]

Thats sounds like damage from not running the proper bumpstops (the coil bound up, and bent the bottom winding in).

The Skyjacker coils are good stuff, although Rough Country's coils I haven't really heard anything bad about either (it's their brackets that suck).

The SJ coils may be a bit softer than RC's so you might need a couple washer shims under the bottom perch to be at the same height as the RCs were.

 

[High Desert Ranger]

Could be that kind of damage. I got the RC kit used off another truck and I know that kid hammered the suspension, besides not have the proper bump stops.

This truck is my commuter truck with some light off roading. I've always said since I installed the lift that the front coils were too stiff.

 

[4x4junkie]

If the coils were too stiff then some early Bronco or F-150 superflex coils could be something to look at, for sure.
Just be sure your steering geometry is together before you use softer coils on it (a simple drop pitman arm alone is seldom sufficient).

You might try some different shocks on it first though. Shocks can make it seem stiff too.

 

[mudranger]

If you want em, I have a set of almost new Skyjacker 4" softrides I will let go cheap- pm me and we will work something out....They were on my truck for maybe 4k miles before I went up to 6" coils...

 

[High Desert Ranger]

If you want em, I have a set of almost new Skyjacker 4" softrides I will let go cheap- pm me and we will work something out....They were on my truck for maybe 4k miles before I went up to 6" coils...

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[High Desert Ranger]

Been thinking about this for a few days now.

1.) Are the XJ Coils that I have been recommended to get a set of stock XJ coils?
2.) How well do the XJ coils stand up to on a Ranger with the addition of a steel winch bumper, and winch along with a few other things, that will probably add about 200lbs of weight to the front of the Ranger?
3.) What are the people here that have lift kits using for suspension bumpstops?
4.) What about the EB coils or the F150 coils?

 

[4x4junkie]

Jeep coils will be too soft if your Ranger is anything but a std cab 4cyl truck.

Early Bronco coils are the ones to look at if you want something other than the stiff TTB springs.

As for bumpstops, mine are the stock rubber ones. You'll need to add extended shock mounts though if you want to avoid lowering them.

 

[TRUNK_MONKEY]

Jeep coils will be too soft if your Ranger is anything but a std cab 4cyl truck.

Early Bronco coils are the ones to look at if you want something other than the stiff TTB springs.

As for bumpstops, mine are the stock rubber ones. You'll need to add extended shock mounts though if you want to avoid lowering them.

i have xj coils on my wrangler--4.0 boat anchor 6 cyl. and winch. i have winch as well, and the coils gave me 2 in of lift and leveled it out perfectly. try them-xj parts are cheap at the bone yard!

 

[JohnnyU]

try them-xj parts are cheap at the bone yard!

There's actually more science to it than that, but whatever.

 

[High Desert Ranger]

Jeep coils will be too soft if your Ranger is anything but a std cab 4cyl truck.

Early Bronco coils are the ones to look at if you want something other than the stiff TTB springs.

Stock EB coils?

As for bumpstops, mine are the stock rubber ones. You'll need to add extended shock mounts though if you want to avoid lowering them.

I have longer shocks. I think that I am going to use a PST bumpstop.

 

[Todd]

i have xj coils on my wrangler--4.0 boat anchor 6 cyl.

Jeep Wrangler? TTB puts more leverage on coils then that of a strait axle. I have seen a few factors 1 being a strait axle compared to 1.5 of a TTB.

Stock EB coils?

EB lift coils.