Rick's Rangerz 3 Link Kit - has anyone used one?

[85_Ranger4x4]

Mustang came with an 8.8 coil spring setup. Could be possible to fit one of those in?

Obviously you would need fully home made mounting on the truck side, but you could buy some cheap off the shelf parts that bolt right on the axel.

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I thought about that.

Mustang axle is wider.

May impact ability to do truck things. A Supercab Ranger is a fair bit heavier than a Mustang... before you put a stack of plywood in the back.

On the flipside Jeep has used linked rear axles forever and has the right wheel bolt pattern. But being offroad biased may not be a huge improvement over a well set up leaf system.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Mustang came with an 8.8 coil spring setup. Could be possible to fit one of those in?

Obviously you would need fully home made mounting on the truck side, but you could buy some cheap off the shelf parts that bolt right on the axel.

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Interesting… this looks like it has potential…

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I thought about that.

Mustang axle is wider.

May impact ability to do truck things. A Supercab Ranger is a fair bit heavier than a Mustang... before you put a stack of plywood in the back.

On the flipside Jeep has used linked rear axles forever and has the right wheel bolt pattern. But being offroad biased may not be a huge improvement over a well set up leaf system.

The Jeep D35 rear axles are notoriously weak, you would have to look for something with a stronger rear. A lot of Jeep guys with the D35 rear use the Ranger/Explorer 8.8” as an upgrade replacement

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The Jeep D35 rear axles are notoriously weak, you would have to look for something with a stronger rear. A lot of Jeep guys with the D35 rear use the Ranger/Explorer 8.8” as an upgrade replacement

They also had D44's, mainly in Rubicons but JT's with the two packaged had them too.

I doubt they are on the used market but they actually just introduced a full floating D44 a year or two ago as well.

 

[JoshT]

Mustang came with an 8.8 coil spring setup. Could be possible to fit one of those in?

Obviously you would need fully home made mounting on the truck side, but you could buy some cheap off the shelf parts that bolt right on the axel.

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It's a factory triangulated 4 link. Same type of suspension that is being discussed here, except that Ford used coil springs instead of coilovers or bags. As for swaping that in, not really feasible. Dimensionally the axle and car is pretty different than a Ranger, at a minimum all of the links ould have to be replaced with custom parts, and it's a fair bit wider as mentioned. By the time you modified everything to fit, you'd have as much work in as building with the stock (or Explorer) axle, and the stock axle fits better from the start.