Rear Shock Mounts

[TooL]

I used the Search and came up dry..

What company sells rear shock mounts? I have flipped my rearend where the leaf springs are over the axle, and shocks wont mount to it.. this is what I need:

I dont know what brand that is or where I found the picture.

 

[Infragate]

That is the Superlift brand spring perches in the picture. What did you use for spring perches? Did you weld them to the axle? What i did was make anti wrap perches out of square tubing (1/4" walls) and weld them to the axle, then take out the rear sway bar and junk it and hook the shocks up to the sway bar mount points on the axle. This is temporary ofcourse, eventually welding tabs to the axle for lower shock mounts is the goal. Do you have pics of your set-up?

 

[Chew_12]

I have heard that those superlift brackets are real prone to breaking. I also have a temp setup, where I have the U bolts flipped around so I can use the old shock mounts.

 

[TooL]

Right now all I have are spring perches welded to the axle, no shocks. I need that shock mount to properly.. mount shocks lol.

My front end is DONE. I got a full size bronco lift kit(cheap from a friend, full kit 200$, cant beat that! I still have parts/shocks left), used the springs and shocks, and the radius arm mounts, then I bought drop down brackets for the middle to correct the insain camber the tires had. Its almost perfict up front, even the angles are not that bad on the steering. I think Ive almost gained 6 inches in lift in the front alone, now its time to work on the back.

I still have ALOT more to do to this truck, the 4x4 doesnt even work (shift moter, my attempt to fix it didnt work, hopefully its not the transfer case itself). Plus transmission shuttering problem (still happens after the lift, dont think its tires)..

Ill take pictures and post them at some point, this has been an oddball adventure of wrong parts that work lol.

EDIT: The spring perch was something I got at the local 4x4 place, its a "2 inch Axle Spring Perch", was cheap to so grinding it off wont be a problem (well unless i screw up the axle in the process..)

 

[rookieshooter]

www.tabzone.com

Try this site, they sell some cool stuff

 

[TooL]

I just emailed them, any more links anyone?

 

[rookieshooter]

http://www.aa-mfg.com/

 

[TooL]

www.tabzone.com

Try this site, they sell some cool stuff

Got a reply from them: DON'T HAVE WHAT YOUR LOOKING FOR EXACTLY

Caps 4TW! No luck at thoes other websites. Its like trying to find a needle in a haystack lol.

 

[TheRookie]

no no no no. Hang on here for a second. You dont need to change anything for shock mounts. Infact you have a set you just dont realize it yet. Take a look at the sway bar brackets on the axle. now just use the top bolt on each side for the shocks. DONE and FREE

 

[TooL]

Humm didnt think of that... <goes to look now while headingout for work>

any pics btw?

Once I get film for my crappy 35mm camera ill take a whole slew of pictures of my setup.

 

[TheRookie]

There ya go. I dont have any pics of mine as its not the same axle anymore

 

[TooL]

Ok... shock question, I have rancho shocks that are the exact same length and width of the origonal shocks except one thing... the top part of the shock..

Top and bottom images (borrowed poloroid.. its horrable!)

Im not exactly sure what to do here, unless I have to buy new shocks (and sell the rancho ones)

 

[TheRookie]

There are a few possible solutions. One would be finding that cross piece and putting it in your rancho.s rancho calls that crosspiece "XP7" Or you could try to reuse the stock ones by cutting the studs off or driving them out, then drilling out the holes, then press them into the rancho eye. I would probably just go get the correct ones if you can.

 

[TooL]

Had to use the old crosspins for the top mount (was a pain to get out but they work fine).

Problem im running into now is which hole to use of the old sway bar bracket. The top one gives me 3inches of upward travel on the shocks (top mount to where the bar goes into the shock itself, rancho 5000 shocks). The bottom mount gives me 7 1/2 inches..... but is harder to get the shocks secure due to the angle (top is hard too but i can get a socket on the back bolt, upward angle). Should I mount them to the bottom hole anyway?

 

[TheRookie]

sounds like they arent propper length. you will have to figure something out. remember drop is better than stuff

 

[TooL]

Yea I mounted them on the bottom hole, its close to 6 inches up (about the length of the bumpstop to springs). I think I will do fine for now. Working on rims right now... got a van in my way for my last rim...

 

[94explorer2x4]

Right now all I have are spring perches welded to the axle, no shocks. I need that shock mount to properly.. mount shocks lol.

My front end is DONE. I got a full size bronco lift kit(cheap from a friend, full kit 200$, cant beat that! I still have parts/shocks left), used the springs and shocks, and the radius arm mounts, then I bought drop down brackets for the middle to correct the insain camber the tires had. Its almost perfict up front, even the angles are not that bad on the steering. I think Ive almost gained 6 inches in lift in the front alone, now its time to work on the back.

I still have ALOT more to do to this truck, the 4x4 doesnt even work (shift moter, my attempt to fix it didnt work, hopefully its not the transfer case itself). Plus transmission shuttering problem (still happens after the lift, dont think its tires)..

The trans shutter is possibly the torque converter going bad their some things you can do to check it if you happen to have it out of the vehicle. When i find the steps to check the torque converter I will pm you with them
Nate

****Edit well it turns out yuo need a couple of special tools so unless you have a friend that works a the dealer or know any good tranny shops that might have them youwill not be able to check the torque converter clutches
sorry Nate

 

[elvisjer@]

Lets see some pics of the setup in the rear!

 

[TooL]

Lets see some pics of the setup in the rear!

Once I get my tires and rims on Im taking the truck to a friends house(digital camera and concreate driveway 4tw) to do a photo shoot of it and ALL the parts I changed out. I will most likely throw together a web site to post the picts on too.

Im missing 1 rim (bought 3 at one junkyard, and a 4th wrong one at another, bleh) atm. The 12 hole bronco 2 stock rims. Im going to sell off the old explorer rims VERY cheap if anyone is in the East TN area (10$ a rim, they are highly used) and sell the wrong rim (12 hole bronco style with 3 screw holes for a center cap). The rims I want dont have the screw holes for a center cap. 15x7 thats 5 lug on 4 1/2.

This is the style, but wrong rim. The type I need is without the screw holes for a center cap:

East Tn area (I live in Knoxville). Just pm me if you can help me in any way. Ill post the website on this thread and on that other forum for picts.

 

[TheRookie]

Thats also a stock 91 rim. I used to have those. Look at american racing "outlaw 2" rims. they may be what you are after