Front end work

[carlover]

Or just find a garage fabber to build you one for cheaper??

 

[R.J.]

it would probably be the same price, but that one has cool dimple die

 

[carlover]

you have that heavy heavy rear bumper huh?? I would deriously not go with the f-23 pack, with that much weight and the extra rear weight if an explorer you really need the g-50.

 

[R.J.]

oh thats right, i forgot i had so much weight in the back. i figured i would run the f31 untill i find a nice deal on some d50's. maybe i can take them to deaver and see what they can do

 

[carlover]

did you already buy the f31's?

 

[R.J.]

nope, i talked to the guy and i was going to this weekend, but he can't get replacement springs for himself until mid next week. so i could back out now. but there's no d50 springs for sale

 

[carlover]

Id hold off until you can find the right pack. You wont get much lift, bottom out way to fast, and its gonna be way to soft for what you do with the explorer. That pack is meant for a stockish ranger with a mild bedcage and like one spare in the rear.

 

[R.J.]

he had two more leafs added in and i still need them soft for rockcrawling. if i tried them out, wouldn't i be able to sale them again if it doesn't work?

 

[R.J.]

i think your right sean, i should start looking for a race pack instead

 

[Dannyboy]

dude, my junk isnt pretty but it works. While you are staring at that sexy exgine crossmember, try to figure out my trick power steering pump, I hear it's a Howe, I've just never looked too closely. Another diamond I uncovered in this truck.

Also FYI, I paid $500 for my rear srings so I don't know what used ones are going for.

 

[carlover]

he had two more leafs added in and i still need them soft for rockcrawling. if i tried them out, wouldn't i be able to sale them again if it doesn't work?

Call up Deaver and see what they tell you. Springs are a pretty large purchase, im sure you wanna do it once and thats it lol.

 

[R.J.]

exactly, i just want to do it once. so im not getting the f31's anymore. even though im not gonna be able to use all the travel that the race pack will be able to give.

new springs are about $600-750. used spring are about $400-450

 

[R.J.]

picked these up today. the coil buckets look kinda odd, but they shouldn't bend

don't know if we'll use these, but they look nice and are angled for better turning clearance. but when we got home and measured, they're about 10"s shorter than the arms we're already using

another set of cut and turned beams

ported axle hole

we also got a stock set of beams, a pair of knuckles, and some 6" springs that the guy said were superlift, so i won't be using those.

the plan is to use the new cut and turned beams and new buckets, and truss, plate and widen the BTF beams. i want to widen them 4.5"s and use a stock d44 pass axle.

does anyone know which d44 axle piece is supposed to interchange with the d35 but is roughly 4.5"s longer?

 

[IZwack]

Why so many cut-and-turned beams?

 

[mounty71]

Damn, you guys picked up a lot of stuff.

 

[R.J.]

Why so many cut-and-turned beams?

good question. just cause we can i guess

 

[R.J.]

hey wait, did we pick up d28 beams? the pumpkin looks small

 

[mounty71]

I was wondering...it does look different than what you have on the first page :scratch:

 

[Willard]

The pumpkin is shaped different, and it has 12 bolt holes instead of 10

 

[R.J.]

hahahahaha wow i think we screwed up pretty nice the guy we got em from didn't know crap about 4wd