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Finish the exo yet?
 


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Finish the exo yet?
LOL probably going to work on it today. I had to play catch up this week cause of all the work I did on the house the week before. Got the handrail up that you tore out for me. Thanks for your help!

Just have the small section of spindles left to build used metal spindles they look great!
 

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Anytime. Looks like it is coming together well.
 

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... And found a 2nd gen Explorer 4.0 4x4 shaft for the rear.


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If you get the chance could you measure that rear shaft length flange to flange?
 

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If you get the chance could you measure that rear shaft length flange to flange?
I wanna say it was 48-49" when bolted in. When it stops raining I will check. The buyer had to back out of buying Double R. Needless to say I wasn't sad. LOL :headbang:
 

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Glad u got to keep it, its one bad azz truck.
 

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Yep the drive shaft is 49" it will collapse to 47". It is a fun truck.
 

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Started another SAS swap on 92 Ranger 2wd 2.3 5 speed. My buddies truck. He plans on swapping 5.0 5 speed and 205 into it next. Here are some pics we started Monday afternoon after junk yard run to grab some chevy leafs.

The axles use are early 70s Bronco 44/9 combo. This swap is super easy and fast. Only thing left is the trans crossmember and building a drag link. Then little stuff like brake lines and shocks which he is going finish up when he gets back to Iowa. We used the factory radius arms, track bar, and most of the factory steering.











He plans on getting some larger coils for the front and getting some long shackles for the rear and adding another leaf to the rear. The Chevy leafs came off a 3/4 ton and were 5 leaf we broke them down he wanted to go 3 and I wanted to go 4 leafs like RR. But we did what he wanted afterwards he is like we should have done 4. LOL
 
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Ik it's been awhile since uve done it but how far up did u move the coil spring perches on the Dana 30 Im also doin the swap just wondering if moving the perches would make any difference or to get the axle centered better.
 

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Ik it's been awhile since uve done it but how far up did u move the coil spring perches on the Dana 30 Im also doin the swap just wondering if moving the perches would make any difference or to get the axle centered better.
center them directly over the axle tube
 

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Thank you. Now I can finally get started lol.
 

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center them directly over the axle tube
Did the same to mine, made it so much better.

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Yeah you have to move them or you will have a bunch of issues if you want to use stock location on the frame side of thing.
 

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Yep the drive shaft is 49" it will collapse to 47". It is a fun truck.
Ok thanks, Ive got several shafts ranging in the low 40"s to 56", Id like to use one but if I have to modify them, so be it. Glad you are keeping RR.
If I can make a stock shaft work I will for ease of finding spares and $.
 
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Hey man how the heck do you post a question on the site?
I built a 94 ranger with updated drive train and converted it to a manual transmission ... Now it doesn't run right.
By the way nice truck!!!
 

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