Nor Cal chat thread

[2004xlmiller]

yup all that. but cant you put in new axleshafts and change the lug pattern? i get thats not practical but is it possible?

 

[rangersas97]

Thanks for the welcome! its taken me a while to find a satisfying forum and i appreciate the input. i would like to do it myself with minimal fabrication. I want to use my stock spring towers, but heres my main concern, would my shocks bolt directly from the towers to the radius arms if i use a c-wedge d44? do i need to fabricate my own radius arms? And what would i get the steering out of? would i have to do something with the brake lines? what coils would i use?

And what about the rear axle? i would like to keep it a little lower in the rear, not by much though. what do you advise?

this is my first sas so easy would be best and i have a small budget, thanks

 

[RangerBoy94]

You are going to have to go through some fabrication if your doing a SAS.

 

[ben10]

OK well fabrication is mandatory. The sas isn't cheap. You can keep your steering box. The most direct swap would be a 75-77 ford bronco Dana 44 but its pricey. The bronco springs will work and you will want to make your own radius arms but you can use the factory c wedges and such. Its a big project. For the rear you can get blocks and shackles to lift it where you want it. I would get a 9 inch rear axle to match or get adapters to match the front pattern and width

 

[ben10]

So who wants to start converting their ride into alcohol with me? I have been looking at the conversion... could be cool. Aaaaaaand cheap.

 

[2004xlmiller]

where do you buy that? not the conversion, the fuel.

 

[dhkonrad]

Dayne how did the lift turn out? Pics?

It turned out pretty good. I had to do a little modification cause I had some pretty good axle rub, but all in all didn't take too long. Ill try to post some pictures..

 

[ben10]

morg its basically a flex fuel on crack. you brew your own fuel. e85 is 15 % ethanol (alcohol) so making it run on higher percent ethanol means cheaper. plus you can run it on regular fuel too.

http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/

look around.

 

[stiluv]

I wonder if a flex fuel will run on it

 

[ben10]

Yes it will. Not sure if flex fuel will run on a higher % ethanol. I wanna get that book.

 

[2004xlmiller]

thats cool man.

 

[stiluv]

To bad in a week I'm pulling the flex fuel motor

 

[RangerBoy94]

Anyone gonna be around chico tomorrow?

 

[dhkonrad]

Okay wes, I tried to post some pictures, but I apparently fail at posting pictures..... It keeps just showing a fail thumbnail...

 

[stiluv]

Are you putting the pics on photobucket first?

No chico for me tomorrow