99ex22 Is Crazy!

I know a lot of you probably think im crazy for lifting my explorer then lowering it back down to stock then lowering it which I didnt get any pictures of because I only had it like that for a couple weeks. WELL.....
I lifted it again! Same old setup, 1" Body Lift, Shackles, And TT except now I'm running 33x12.5 BFG All Terrains mounted on 15x8 Allied Daytona 51 steel wheels with 3.75 back spacing. EDIT: 4/13/2011 Went spring over axle in the rear and sloped body lift

Mods:
2" TT
SOA
Sloped BL
33x12.5 r15 BFG A/T's
15x8 3.75 backspacing allied daytona 51 wheel
Tow hooks up front
Hella 500's
Trailer Hitch
Mac Intake
Cat back magnaflow
Cobra cb with 2ft fiberglass antenna
JVC hd radio deck
Clear corners
Painted eddie bauer trim black

Records:Purchased 08/28/2009 With 109,000 Miles-Im the 3rd owner
09/04/2009 New front brake shoes and rotors
09/04/2009 Motorcraft Plugs & Wires
09/11/2009 Flushed out Coolant
09/18/2009 Royal Purple Synthetic Fluids
09/24/2009 Seafoam Treatment
04/19/2010 Replaced Outer Tie Rods and installed camber adjusters
01/02/2011 Replaced Upper Control Arms/Ball Joints
06/10/2011 Motorcraft Plugs & Wires
06/10/2011 Flushed out coolant
06/10/2011 Motorcraft fuel filter

Stock and after me spending half the day detailing it-

1" body lift, shackles, AAL, and TT-

4406 Manual T-Case going in-

Painted eddie bauer trim black, 5.0 emblems, and installed a 95-98 steel bumper-

Went spring over axle in the rear and sloped body lift-

Flex test-

Lots more pictures on the other pages of the thread

 

[99ex22]

I was talking about the axle mounts. I understand what your saying now but I don't have a welder. I guess Ill just relocate the bracket on the frame tomorrow and see if I still get axle wrap. If I do then I don't know what ill do haha

 

[mounty71]

Ya, the SOA setup makes it a little more difficult.

 

[99ex22]

Or maybe I can buy 4 pieces of rectangular steel, drill holes in them and bolt them on the existing mounts on the axle and bolt the trac bars to that so it's up higher?

 

[mounty71]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. But I forgot to mention, you have to make sure that if you do raise the mounts on the axle, they won't hit the frame under compression or when the rear articulates.

 

[99ex22]

here is a REALLY BAD paint drawing of my idea haha....

 

[99ex22]

the green lines are the factory trac bar mounts and the black lines are pieces of the steel bolted to the factory tac bar mounts to make the trac bar sit above the leaf springs rather than right level with them.

 

[mounty71]

That won't work because the pieces you add will just want to pivot on the bolt in the stock mounts.

 

[StryctNy9e]

Nice EX maybe we will see eachother on the trails sometime. I go out to wheel/shooting in estacada sometimes. Or maybe we can get together sometime and go wheeling/shooting when I get my truck fixed up. I recently moved to oregon and are looking for people with the same intrest in my area.

 

[99ex22]

yeah man that would cool! Never been wheelin with another explorer because nobody lifts them up here!

 

[StryctNy9e]

Plan on doing a coil seat/add-a-leaf lift with some 32's in a month or so. Gotta do a engine swap first. Do you know any local places that have used or rebuilt engines locally for a decent price. I don't want to have to sell my kidney for a rebuilt engine but I will if I have to.

 

[99ex22]

I have always gone to foster auto parts for my used parts. I'm pretty sure the engines come with a warranty too.

 

[99ex22]

duct taped my iphone to my reciever so I could see how much axle wrap I got goin and suprisingly it's not that bad. I was giving it a lot of gas too...

 

[99ex22]

 

[99ex22]

little flexy flexy...

 

[4rd4life]

nice flex shot... it really makes me wonder why its so easy to raise the rear and such a pain for the front. wish there was a cheaper front kit available would make alot of us gen 2 guys alot happier im sure.

 

[StryctNy9e]

damn looks good. Im jealous

 

[99ex22]

thanks guys! lifting the front isnt that hard. 2" TT and a sloped body lift and it will sit pretty level.

 

[99ex22]

they bumped up the delivery date for my 3" body lift spacer ive been waiting for to thursday and it's supposed to rain all day damnit!

 

[Jason c]

I was talking about the axle mounts. I understand what your saying now but I don't have a welder. I guess Ill just relocate the bracket on the frame tomorrow and see if I still get axle wrap. If I do then I don't know what ill do haha

I have a welder that your more then welcome to use. It's a 220v mig and I've got the flux-core wire on there now.

 

[GUNITALLREDY]

truck looks awsome bro. maybe down the road ill go soa, out of curiousity how do you do a sloped bl?