felsmann
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- '97 Explorer Sport
Finally!!! I just picked up my truck from the shop last week. I got a custom lift put on, based on the Ranger/Superlift kit.
The front is all the bracketry you see on all IFS lifts, including the torsion bars. Because mine is a '97 they had to do some extra work on my torsion bar mounts. Looking at the trailmaster pictures, it looks very similar, the brackets all seem to be the same, and the CV angles seem like stock as well.
The rear lift was achieved by a Spring Over axle conversion. Looks really clean. I assume that the rear probably got 6", but my explorer was originaly much lower in the rear than the fron, so it actually makes up for the sag.
4 Rancho RS 9000's accompany the lift, making the ride as smooth or as harsh as I want it to be. They are really easy to adjust.
The only thing I still have to work on, and that anyone with the transfer case that has the AUTO feature has to keep in mind when doing a suspension lift, is the front end driveline.
Apparently this shaft runs on a constant velocity coupler (or something like that) which can only run at a certain angle, so once you lift your truck, this angle changes and causes it to bind. This is the same problem that the new Chevy's have as well when being lifted. The solution is to go to a driveline shop and have then end changed on the shaft for the double U-joint kind.
[Edited by Ray Lobato on 06-19-2000 at 05:49 PM]
The front is all the bracketry you see on all IFS lifts, including the torsion bars. Because mine is a '97 they had to do some extra work on my torsion bar mounts. Looking at the trailmaster pictures, it looks very similar, the brackets all seem to be the same, and the CV angles seem like stock as well.
The rear lift was achieved by a Spring Over axle conversion. Looks really clean. I assume that the rear probably got 6", but my explorer was originaly much lower in the rear than the fron, so it actually makes up for the sag.
4 Rancho RS 9000's accompany the lift, making the ride as smooth or as harsh as I want it to be. They are really easy to adjust.
The only thing I still have to work on, and that anyone with the transfer case that has the AUTO feature has to keep in mind when doing a suspension lift, is the front end driveline.
Apparently this shaft runs on a constant velocity coupler (or something like that) which can only run at a certain angle, so once you lift your truck, this angle changes and causes it to bind. This is the same problem that the new Chevy's have as well when being lifted. The solution is to go to a driveline shop and have then end changed on the shaft for the double U-joint kind.
[Edited by Ray Lobato on 06-19-2000 at 05:49 PM]
