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- Jan 6, 2002
- Messages
- 6,859
- City
- Pittsburgh
- State - Country
- PA - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 2020
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Drive
- 4WD
- Engine
- 2.3 EcoBoost
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Total Lift
- 1.5"
- Tire Size
- 265/70-17
- My credo
- "220, 221, whatever it takes."
Already done that in about 200 torsion bar threads over 8 years.
Now then, what you see is a late-model suspension at full droop. The control arms are hanging down. This is the amount of adjustment you have if turn the torsion bars up all the way. Picture the suspension moving up and down. Whatever amount you "lift" it by adjusting the torsion bars is how much downtravel you lose. This is not an unlimited amount of travel and you're not going to get 4"-6" of lift. Also note the angle of the halfshafts and CV joints. Driving around like that all the time, you can see how the CV joints won't last real long.
The Superlift kit has drop brackets for the differential, lower control arms, and new knuckles to lower the hub and rotor assembly a corresponding about. The knuckle is the part between the upper and lower control arm that the hub and rotor mount to. The discontinued Rough Country kit was similar but used upper ball joint spacers to lower the stock knuckle.
Essentially that drops the whole suspension 4" and thus raises the truck 4" while keeping a fairly level angle on the halfshafts and CV's.
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