88 Bronco II + 93 Explorer = Short and powerfull

[Diff Whack Daddy]

Well I finally got a little more work done on this. Yesterday I ripped out the stock dana 28 TTB. Took just under an hour. Gotta love the oxy acceteline torch. 4 cuts, 3 large nuts (pitman arm and 2 radius arms), and 4 bolts (TTB pivot bolts and sway bar links). Next up, rivet popping

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

Apparently it is possible to put the radius arms on the wrong side. This will really screw up your allignment according to the allignment shop. Whoops, all better now.

 

[jrgaylor]

you did not notice when you put your shocks on

 

[Albino 94LTD]

you did not notice when you put your shocks on

He doesn't have front shocks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yet. The Duff's from my old kit were too short.

But, uhm, yeah, the mounting tabs coulda given it away

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

No they don't. The shock mounts are in the middle of the arm. The only thing that really gives it away is the short and long ears where they attach to the TTB. Long ears should be on the bottom.
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[whitetrashfab]

Forests bronco has the same superlift kit on it, when we pulled the front diff out to install the 4.56 gears and I noticed that the radius arms had cracks on both of the ears. Also found that someone had put a hole in the top of the diff from not running bump stops and welded that up to, its not the first time I have seen that happen. We fixed the arms and made some bump stops that prevent the diff from hitting the drop bracket. As for the rear driveshaft (off a 4 door explorer just cut down), we were able to port out the yoke so it would not hit at full drop running belltech shackles, explorer 4 door springs and a factory ranger 2" block on an explorer 8.8. My old Bronco 2 was another story with the 9", I had to use limiting straps on it running 6" skyjacker springs and small 1" block or I would have u joint problems.

Sounds like you will have a nice bronco when your done, cant wait to see you put some dents in it!

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

Mine is a skyjacker/superlift hybrid lift. The pivot brackets are skyjacker and everything else is superlift and the diff killer bracket has already been modified by arsoul as he put a hole in his diff too.

 

[whitetrashfab]

I have welded up 3 dana 35's with holes from crapy drop brackets for friends. I had a 95 ranger with the 6" class 2 skyjacker kit with 8" coils on it (the 6" ones sat at about 4" of lift on an ex cab) and super-sucker steering. The diff cant hit the one pice bracket they use in there kit.

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

The skyjacker braket and stock pivot bracket have been cut and shaped for clearance. There used to be 4 bolts bolting the skyjacker plate/bracket to the stock bracket, and now there is only three, but it is heavily welded. Ryan ran it like this for years after he put a hole in his diff and never had anymore clearance issues.

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

Front shocks installed, stock rear shackles installed = a much better ride with 90% of the vibration gone. Good enough to make feel comfortable about driving it down there on the road, wheeling it, checking bolts, and driving it back home. She's a FORD, and a pony. She'll make it no probs.
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[Albino 94LTD]

Who's driving it?

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

I will be driving it into work on Thursday, and then my nephew and two older boys will be meeting me down here in the afternoon with the camper and trailered Ex, where we will switch and continue on to Nachese.

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

Maiden Voyage

Well we took the BII out for her maiden voyage last weekend. She ran perfect for the 185 mile trek to the campsite where she had her big shoes put on for the first time. After running some pretty good trails for three straight days, we put her road tires back on and drove it the 185 miles back home. On the first day, she became a parts donor to get my Explorer off the trail, but we were able to scrounge up another steering box from a friday night arival to get her back on the trail. Only damage was a headlight, small dent on the passeger door, both caused by trees on tight trails, and one of the ears on the passenger side TTB drop pivot bracket needs to be rewelded and gusseted, but I saw that one coming.

 

[90ranajo]

So there was none of this:

 

[Albino 94LTD]

Cody almost pirouetted her onto her top

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

He deffinately did a nice one wheel stand, but I don't think it would have gone over, but it was deffinately a pucker factor of 9.8
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[waexplorerJR]

 

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