Dual shock brackets?

[wht2wd50]

am looking to double my shocks in the front does any one know where i can find a double shock hoop for a 97 explorer? or how i could go about fabing one.

 

[FIND]

Bend tubing, add tabs, weld on... If you have to ask, chances are, you can't do it.

 

[shooterdude199]

To do double shocks consists of more than welding some tabs up to a piece of tubing and welded to your frame. There are a lot of angles involved which quite frankly won't look the way you're thinking of. There has to be clearance between the control arms to even fit two shocks between there which you guessed it. There isn't. I run a 2.0 coilover with a 2.5" diameter spring and it hardly clears the control arms. At full droop it touches. So all in all you'd have to make a wide enough control arm to do so. Camburg has a kit that does include everything and does greatly increase wheel travel and some lift. But if you're looking to have some sort of budget it won't work. MakIng uppers alone will be pretty darn expensive especially machining the joint that joins the spindle and uca together.

Short answer.... No not without a lot of fab work.

 

[FIND]

To do double shocks consists of more than welding some tabs up to a piece of tubing and welded to your frame. There are a lot of angles involved which quite frankly won't look the way you're thinking of. There has to be clearance between the control arms to even fit two shocks between there which you guessed it. There isn't. I run a 2.0 coilover with a 2.5" diameter spring and it hardly clears the control arms. At full droop it touches. So all in all you'd have to make a wide enough control arm to do so. Camburg has a kit that does include everything and does greatly increase wheel travel and some lift. But if you're looking to have some sort of budget it won't work. MakIng uppers alone will be pretty darn expensive especially machining the joint that joins the spindle and uca together.

Short answer.... No not without a lot of fab work.

That's why I said if he had to ask, chances are that he can't do it.

 

[corkey]

a 2.0 coilover just fits,

can't really see where another shock could go, cause of the way the wheels are when the steering turns,

 

[wht2wd50]

FIND: I could do the fab work but with the other work i have to do, i was wanting a bolt on if one was available

 

[shooterdude199]

I mean if you're able to do the fab work then by any means do it. But you'll have to change up and gusset the lower control arm for it to work in a way. You'd probably have to move the point at which the shock(s) lower towards the lower ball joint to get yourself some more travel as well. The only real issue I would find is the uppers. If you can machine the ends for the ball joint to bolt on to the spindle you'll pretty much have it. But with all that work you may as well run a coilover and it'll be a little more comfortable and possibly cheaper.

 

[wht2wd50]

yeah, im just going to run the coil overs will bw easier with all the other work i need to do, and it was more for the looks than the application anyways so not a big deal really..

 

[shooterdude199]

I mean honestly man it's something that ain't worth the money for something that won't be much use. You'd have to do A Lot of work to have the look you want. Coilovers will be a nice route