I'm in between what I should do with the explorer rebuild the dana 35 ttb or do a sas.I'm leaning to the sas but not have a place to do it. I guess my question is if I were to do an sas would anyone be interested in helping out?
I'm in between what I should do with the explorer rebuild the dana 35 ttb or do a sas.I'm leaning to the sas but not have a place to do it. I guess my question is if I were to do an sas would anyone be interested in helping out?
SAS for sure
there are a few folks here that are willing to share there shop space.
If we had a gardge I would say bring it on over.
I think you will be much happier with the SAS.
look into the f150 or bronco coil spring. they are set closer the the weight of the exploder.
Austin (June 12th, 2015)
Ya I'm thinking of calling sff and seeing about getting my arms and mount made up there. I would just him do the whole thing if I had the extra cash to do so. How much lift did you go on the front Tom 6" or 4"? It would be cool if I could re-use the lift coils I have now.
My understanding is the TTB to SAS swap is thee easyest one out there.
Radius arms and a drive shaft and its a done deal..
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Ya my main two questions are can I use the factory spring bucket and shock mounts and what to do for the track bar set up. I really would like to check one that's already been sas and I need to get down and talk to sff about arms
Ya I need to get over sff and talk to josh and see what he says
Tell ya both the ford springs from the full size stuff is what you want.
They are stiffer as they are for a heavier truck.
they will produce a slight bit of lift and ride stiffer than the exploder springs.
I think they are the same size buckets and I belive the axle buckets will accept them with no mods.
I have friends who have used then in a TJ and a XJ.
Nice ya the lift springs in mine now are F150 springs that's why I was hoping they would work
They should. Only thing that could be issue is track width.
But the exploder does have a narower frame than the full size stuff.
So I went by and talk to Josh today and looked at is orange ranger and that made up my mind I'm gonna do a SAS. This gonna be a process as I need to start collecting parts like an axle and front shock towers. Josh is gonna make me a new cross member and the radius arms and im going to attempt to do the rest. So now I guess it just collecting and getting a the parts together to get it done.
Yeah, Josh has some fun toys. I drove his Merc awhile ago and I think that probably sent me down the SAS road. It is sure nice to be able to point your rig at pretty much any obstacle (except buggy type terrain) and make it. If you have a locker or limited slip in both diffs, the suspension flexes so well that you always have all 4 tires in contact. Deep snow is about the only thing that has stopped me so far.
If you go find a jeep comanchee truck they are a hi-pinion axle. I think using a 4 link is more reliable and elimanats the panhard (track) bar. You will get great flex and much less binding in the suspension.
Austin (June 18th, 2015)
Ya I think I'm gonna go with the set up like Tom has. Josh said he could make up the cross member and radius arms for me for a decent price. He showed me his setup on his ranger and I think I can do most all of that work myself. I also got some good news this week construction is back under way at my house we are redoing so hopefully I'll have a new garage space to do it all in soon
Nice. Good luck withthe build....lots of pics!
Does any one know if you have to move or have to move the lower spring mounts on the Dana 30 over the axle tube because stock they are just in front of the axle tube. If you do have to move them could you explain why. I am planning on using f250 shock towers and bronco coil buckets.
Wel) if you are going to use the ford buckets cut the old stuff off and use what ylu want to get what you want. Makes it easy to get the angles right.
Ya that's my plan if I can find them. If I can't find them im gonna mod the stock ones
I just know when I talked to josh he said I needed to move them back to center on the axle I didnt know if that was just if I moded the factory buckets of if I had to do it either way