OK, so here is my dilema. I use my truck to play with, but it's also my ride to work when the weather is bad. I think an SAS would make my wheeling expereinces better but I'm still concerned about keeping the functionality for the rest of the week.
Problem #1 driveability) It seems like Ford and other manufactures switched to IFS for a reason, because it handles better on the hard ball. My wife drives my explorer periodically and she complains about the way it handles now, I couldn't imagine how much she would complain if it handled worse. (and we all know after the first year of marriage, it's the husband's job to keep the wife's complaints to a minimum
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Problem #2 Ride height) My wife complains about how high it is now and I have about 3" of clearance in the parking garage where I work as it is. I'm not really keen on the idea of airing down my tires just to park every day.
Problem #3 Experience) I've never seen a conversion done, I've seen plenty of threads but everybody has their own way of doing things, opinions of what is better, etc.
Problem #4 What to use?) D44? Rubicon? EB? I'd rather not use a full width. I'd like to keep my bolt pattern the same. Coils or leafs (this probably plays into my ride height dilema too)
Problem #5 Cost) Like anybody else, I have a 96 Explorer that I paid 2k for, I don't want to spend 4k on an SAS. I've seen a couple D44's for between 3 and 800 on CL and such. I've poked around and seen the prices on some other stuff in other threads (some are very time consuming to read.)
Cliff notes, I want to do a low, cheap, decent handling SAS. Any ideas?
Problem #1 driveability) It seems like Ford and other manufactures switched to IFS for a reason, because it handles better on the hard ball. My wife drives my explorer periodically and she complains about the way it handles now, I couldn't imagine how much she would complain if it handled worse. (and we all know after the first year of marriage, it's the husband's job to keep the wife's complaints to a minimum
: )Problem #2 Ride height) My wife complains about how high it is now
and I have about 3" of clearance in the parking garage where I work as it is. I'm not really keen on the idea of airing down my tires just to park every day.Problem #3 Experience) I've never seen a conversion done, I've seen plenty of threads but everybody has their own way of doing things, opinions of what is better, etc.
Problem #4 What to use?) D44? Rubicon? EB? I'd rather not use a full width. I'd like to keep my bolt pattern the same. Coils or leafs (this probably plays into my ride height dilema too)
Problem #5 Cost) Like anybody else, I have a 96 Explorer that I paid 2k for, I don't want to spend 4k on an SAS. I've seen a couple D44's for between 3 and 800 on CL and such. I've poked around and seen the prices on some other stuff in other threads (some are very time consuming to read.)
Cliff notes, I want to do a low, cheap, decent handling SAS. Any ideas?
