too much lift?

[chasedwesterhouse]

Has anyone on here ever tried lifting the ford ttb front suspension more than 8in? I jus went from 6in lift coils with a 1.5in spacer to a 8in lift coil with the same spacer i kno I have to extend the center hinge but is this thing gunna be horrible to drive?

 

[trader007]

mine has 2" lift from stock and i think its horrible to drive. i plan on going back to stock in a couple weeks (i need a drivetrain first)

 

[Ryannn]

Has anyone on here ever tried lifting the ford ttb front suspension more than 8in? I jus went from 6in lift coils with a 1.5in spacer to a 8in lift coil with the same spacer i kno I have to extend the center hinge but is this thing gunna be horrible to drive?

What is your steering setup like?

 

[chasedwesterhouse]

its jus got a drop pitman arm on the steering and the skyjacker brackets and radius arms for the suspension

 

[86MUDRCJ]

Pics?

 

[PlumCrazy]

Sounds like a death trap. Unless you have a 8" drop pitman your steering geometry has to be atrocious, and if you did cobble together a drop pitman that long you going to snap the sector shaft or tear the frame apart

Mind if i ask why you need more than 8" of lift?

You can clear 35s with under 8", and the TTB cant really handle anything bigger and be reliable.

-PlumCrazy

 

[straycat]

Sounds like a death trap. Unless you have a 8" drop pitman your steering geometry has to be atrocious, and if you did cobble together a drop pitman that long you going to snap the sector shaft or tear the frame apart

Mind if i ask why you need more than 8" of lift?

You can clear 35s with under 8", and the TTB cant really handle anything bigger and be reliable.

-PlumCrazy

^^^What he said. Like a Charles Bronson movie....Death Wish!!! Who is giving you these parts and are the parts in good shape? Scary.

 

[chasedwesterhouse]

I have 36s and it bottomed out on the trail and beat my fenders and my bed up. the parts are are skyjacker soft ride 138 springs. everything on the front of it is skyjacker

 

[PlumCrazy]

Trim the fenders or get a body lift.

I would suggest a solid axle swap if you want 8+ lift.

-PlumCrazy

 

[daniel3507]

No reason to try and run a suspension set up that big on TTB. Thats asking a lot out of TTB. Just go SAS at that point.

 

[509lifted]

yup just go sas your axle will snap with that big of tire once you romp on it hard enough, hell i know someone that just snapped his while doing mild off roading on 33's because he started jumping as it tried digging in going up a hill

 

[86MUDRCJ]

I snapped mine recently and I'm runnin 33's I'd do an sas at this point if I was you.

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

Trim the fenders or get a body lift.

I would suggest a solid axle swap if you want 8+ lift.

-PlumCrazy

I wouldn't go more than 6", and wouldn't go 6" w/o the stage 2 kit and extreme drop arm.

6" lift is the minimal amount of lift for a SAS, I think It's meant to be that way...

(4" with custom engine crossmember, for all you smarty pants guys)

I grenaded a d28 w/ 29" tires, and repeatedly destroyed the d35 w/ 31" tires. Granted I was rough on it... I still wouldn't run anything bigger than 33"s, maybe 34"s.

I only have $600 inside my D44, and have no worries running 38"s... As long stick with the 4.0.

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[4x4junkie]

I think some of you guys are forgetting that both the D35 TTB and a D44 share the same weak point, the 5-297X axle u-joints. I wouldn't be so quick to say one is sure to snap where the other won't.

However with the amount of lift involved here, I do have to agree a SAS is probably the better way to go.
The issue is simply the TTB's steering. It gets difficult to maintain the correct geometry with it even at 6" lift (and it only gets worse the higher you go). With the SA, you have the option of what's called "Hi-Steer" which brings the steering linkage up to the top of the knuckles for better geometry.

(the TTB's pivot axis pretty much negates hi-steer as an option for it, you instead would have to use a very large drop-centerlink of some sort to bring the tierods down inline with the axle... Not impossible to do, but with a drop centerlink that large, you would have to stabilize it somehow so it's not flexing back & forth as you're trying to steer).