Low hieght SAS?

[Beanmachine7000]

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a SAS and keep the lift as low as possible (2-3")? I've been measuring and looking and measuring and looking and would really like to get someone's opinion that's been there before... I was thinking maybe if I cut some of the crossmember there and replaced it with a piece of tube? Any idea?

 

[wahlstrom1]

Main issue besides oil pan/crossmember clearance would be the lack of up-travel. The TTB give's you more travel through it's design then the frame-axle clearance would allow on a solid axle. If you can live with a setup like that then anything is possible. I currently have 6-7" of uptravel, and use all of it offroad, and 2-3" of it on the street.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

Up-travel meaning something would have to be done with the frame where the coil buckets would mount? I don't plan on running large tires (33" at most), but I am trying to remove all possible weak links and going from something with several moving parts to almost none just seems like a great idea for me...

 

[wahlstrom1]

760 joints with full circle clips, D44 hub conversion or atleast Jeep hubs on your d35 will be as strong as any non chromo D44. I wouldn't waste the effort to run anything less then 35"+ tires honestly.

Keeping a SAS truck low means the axle sits close to the frame allowing less up travel period, unless you Z the frame, tuckin lug style...street truck stuff.

 

[bobbywalter]

3.5 of up in the top pic. if you pull the body lift off the 33 tires would rub with uncut fenders.


in the bottom i have 6 in of up. but the 33 tires would probably just clear if you took the body lift off with uncut fenders....but rub when you drove it

figure i have 4 in lift in the sas pic....


its been adjusted of course many times since.


using a modded 30 and modded frame rail you could pull it off with 3-4 up and only sit 2 or so over stock.


for ahwile there was a lowered 4x4 ttb custom cut in the taylor area some years ago. with big power and a live front axle these things can get out of the hole on a dirty street.

 

[bobbywalter]

oh yeah.....its 3 inches lower in the sas pic from the ttb pic btw

 

[Beanmachine7000]

I'd like to swap in a HP shortened D44 with just enough room to run 33" tires, it just seems like it would eliminate alot of potential problems...

 

[bobbywalter]

you would want a low pinion in that case.


definatly d30 job.

 

[wahlstrom1]

or EB D44, but the D30 case is smaller and more packagable.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

or EB D44, but the D30 case is smaller and more packagable.

I said HP because I knew it was stronger... How much smaller? If it's a significant amount I can probably go with a D30...

 

[bobbywalter]

exactly.....packaging and strength needs with 33's and low height make the 30 a no brainer.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

exactly.....packaging and strength needs with 33's and low height make the 30 a no brainer.

D30 = less $ too... although I'll probably spend some money beefing it up to make sure I don't have to do any trail repairs

 

[5speedin2.3]

Sorry for linking to another forum.

This is my SAS thread.
http://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2/f6/f82/59723-5speedin2-3s-sas-thread.html

 

[4x4junkie]

I'd like to swap in a HP shortened D44 with just enough room to run 33" tires, it just seems like it would eliminate alot of potential problems...

Problems like what?

SAS could potentially be like opening up a huge can-o-worms if you aren't fully familiar with what all is needed (and in the case of a D30 or D44, eliminates few problems that exist with the D35, while possibly introducing others in their place).

 

[midget]

I have a high pinion D44 heavy duty on my 88 and its no higher than my old 4" lift kit but I lost alot of uptravel from like 5" uptravel with ttb (stiff springs could have been better) to 3-4" with solid axle but the Solid axle kills teh down travel with 10 with my limiting straps 12"-13" without but driveshafts bind up and what not.