thinking of adding more lift?

[kolb02]

Is there anything else that needs to be done to a 97 X cab to go from 3inches of lift to 5.5inches of lift? Thinking of things like drive shafts?

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Body lift or suspension?

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[kolb02]

Suspension

 

[CreepyCrawler]

if its strictly offroad use only build a 1 piece rear shaft and lengthen the front. if daily use on and offroad have the shafts lengthened. could also adjust trans and tcase angle by building a lowering bracket

 

[kolb02]

Thanks! It is a daily driver.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

A drop pitman arm or maybe swingset steering.

 

[kolb02]

So I can just have the stock shafts lengthened?

 

[scotts90ranger]

With that much lift I doubt you would need anything done with the driveshafts... front will be fine, I was running 6-7" lift for a while and was just fine, now I'm down to like 3 or 4" since the springs are now fried... I'm not sure about the rear but I imagine you would be fine, I switched to an explorer 8.8 when I did the lift and kept the stock shaft. Being you have a 2 piece shaft at most find a '98+ one piece shaft and you'll probably be fine, or at least drop the carrier bearing.

I would definitely recommend the $200 FA600 pitman arm, proper linkage angles make a huge difference...