d44 from 77 bronco going into 88 broncoII and want to use the stock 88 buckets for the early bronco coils. the coils are bigger how do i adapt them to original b2 buckets? bend some tabs, cut some out...?
d44 from 77 bronco going into 88 broncoII and want to use the stock 88 buckets for the early bronco coils. the coils are bigger how do i adapt them to original b2 buckets? bend some tabs, cut some out...?
There are other easier and cheaper ways to do use longer shocks. One way would be to build a shock hoop like the old style James Duff hoops (pictured below). Another would be to use the '99-'03 F-250 4wd shock towers. If you cut the stock shock tower off the coil bucket and mount the F-250, you can install a 5-6" longer shock. The shock tower can be had at a dealer for about $20 each. A picture of what the F-250 shock tower looks like is below also.The biggest issue with using stock buckets is that you will lose close to 4" of uptravel because of shock placement. I am reworking a solid axle ranger right now and we just cut off the buckets and are using the early bronco coil buckets and shock towers to mount the top of the shock nearly 5" higher than where the stock TTB shock mounts.
We were looking at this truck and couldn't figure out why there was 6" bump stops on it only allowing 3" of uptravel, we took out the springs and realized that the shocks were way too short and limited all uptravel.
There are other easier and cheaper ways to do use longer shocks.