Hey all,
Well today i have finally become Elite! My rig has been somethingi have been workin very hard on the last little while. I bought my tires before i had lifted the truck and once i picked them up, i had no choice but to lift her up. I began collecting parts last fall and had all of what i needed by spring except for the tires, which were quite a large purchase so i wasn't sure i would have it lifted this year but i managed to find the funds and got er done. She sits on about 7.5" of suspension lift and thats not including the tires. Im running 33x12.5 BFG Muds for rubber on 10x15 wheels. I didn't like the ride of the superlift coils so i changed em up for Skyjacker coils. The perches are the anti wrap style but were made by myself on a CNC mill. One thing i noticed was bump steer was terrible after the lift, i had to almost fight the truck to keep it in my lane and that was with a stabilizer, so i decided to make a super runner set up of my own. It is equipped with bearings in the idler arm instead of bushings and all of the tie rod ends are replaceable and are for a stock explorer. I used DOM tubing and did all the fabricating myself, except for the tapered holes for the inner tierods, those were done on a CNC mill. Just finished regearing to 4.56 lst weekend and now she is ready to wheel hard. Anyway, check out the pics, the truck is in need of paint yet as i have just replaced the front fenders and doglegs but in a few weeks i should have it all painted up nice . Very happy to be Elite!
Well today i have finally become Elite! My rig has been somethingi have been workin very hard on the last little while. I bought my tires before i had lifted the truck and once i picked them up, i had no choice but to lift her up. I began collecting parts last fall and had all of what i needed by spring except for the tires, which were quite a large purchase so i wasn't sure i would have it lifted this year but i managed to find the funds and got er done. She sits on about 7.5" of suspension lift and thats not including the tires. Im running 33x12.5 BFG Muds for rubber on 10x15 wheels. I didn't like the ride of the superlift coils so i changed em up for Skyjacker coils. The perches are the anti wrap style but were made by myself on a CNC mill. One thing i noticed was bump steer was terrible after the lift, i had to almost fight the truck to keep it in my lane and that was with a stabilizer, so i decided to make a super runner set up of my own. It is equipped with bearings in the idler arm instead of bushings and all of the tie rod ends are replaceable and are for a stock explorer. I used DOM tubing and did all the fabricating myself, except for the tapered holes for the inner tierods, those were done on a CNC mill. Just finished regearing to 4.56 lst weekend and now she is ready to wheel hard. Anyway, check out the pics, the truck is in need of paint yet as i have just replaced the front fenders and doglegs but in a few weeks i should have it all painted up nice . Very happy to be Elite!