Installed Shackles and Spacers today

[BigDave]

I installed my Warrior shackles and spacers today. I have some pics of after ward that I will try to get up as soon as I can.

I am very stoked about this as I now have my truck where I have wanted it to be for a long time...

Now all I need are some sliders to protect the rockers and I will be good to go.

Thanks to all of those that answered my questions and a real big thank you to Dre for helping me install all of it today and letting me use his garage.

I will see on Monday how aligned I am able to get the front end.

Dave

 

[Crankcase]

Good job. Get some pics up then.....:d

 

[BigDave]

Here's Pics...

 

[tomblin1]

Hey Big Dave.......

I've got the same setup going on next weekend.
Did you have any problems? Any tips that you have not seen listed in another post? Did you use a spring compressor or just drop the suspension and let the spring come out?

Thanks for any help..........

 

[BigDave]

I was able to just drop the suspension and let the spring fall out. When you put the nylon bushing on hold it up to the lower part of the spring to get it to fit right and then get someone to jack up the suspension so that the bolt comes through. That way the bushing will properly seat itself.

Dave

 

[exploder97]

Hey Hey where in the same area...anyway Im going to be doing the TT and AAL/Shackels on mine as soon as the shcakles get here, do you have an tips or ideas for me. Thanks

 

[Mikes95XLT]

This may sound like a really stupid question....

The horizontal crossmember in the shackles, does that go more toward the top or bottom? Thanks.

 

[ld50]

Lookin alright, Bigdave

BTW what way did you put the shackles?
The horizontal crossmember supposedly goes lower, towards your spring, but It really does not matter. The shackles were originally designed for use on Jeeps so they might need more room up top than we do.

 

[BigDave]

I put mine with the bar up. It doesn't seem to have hindered them at all...

It's in for the alignment now... I may have to swap the sides that I put the spacers on if the camber is off too much. I put the left on the right and the right on the left per the recommendation from the rangerstation instructions and the front tires looked like \ / .

Hopefully they can adjust it enough to get it as close to spec as possible.

Dave

 

[Mikes95XLT]

I have a problem like that too, but my tires look like this... / \ they said it's the bad ball joints, so they are being fixed today.

 

[briantf]

Looks good, can get rid of butt sag with cheap add a leaf

Looks very nice, have two sets of AR-767's here as well, still my favorite offroad wheel. Goes well with your paint! Surprising.

Put the Procomp add-a-leaf on my wife's 98 last weekend, we carry alot of gear in the back and the leafs were getting sagged out even with the Warrior shackles. Overall the AAL is more work than the coil buckets (have 97 Ranger as well) but take no more time. Almost exactly the same price as well.

Regards,
Brian in CA

 

[BigDave]

It's aligned. It took my mechanic about 2.5 hours of messing with it to get it right but the wheels are now straight up and down instead of angled like they were. Looking at the numbers, it was really out of alignment.

I think that eventually I will have to get AAL's too, but I don't want to stiffen up the rear too much as I don't do lots of heavy load towing.

Dave

 

[Rhett]

That looks great with the 31's and slight lift, proportions are good. Have you measured the wheel well heights to make sure you've got the front and back heights matched up?

 

[BigDave]

Nope, they're close enough that it doesn't bother me. If it was way off then I would do something about it.

 

[jimbo74]

lloks great!