My Bronco 2

[kris97ranger]

id keep your drop brackets and do a cut n turn. to keep some more clearance instead of having a snowplow

 

[4.0B2]

Cut and turn beams are in the plans, but not soon, unless I was to attempt it myself lol. I have another mostly complete 35 for spare parts that I'm keeping for when I wanna do a cut and turn job.

 

[dangerranger83]

I say put a heavier engine under the hood, that will help.

I'm glad i went SAS. I would have hated to drop a 302 and fullsize trans under my hood then have to mess with the front suspension due to the extra weight.


Looks like you're having a hard time finding a happy mediem.

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[brinker88]

Have you tried moving it at all? It WILL settle quite a bit when you pull forward/backward.

 

[dangerranger83]

Go drive her and take her on a few back roads and see what she does. Flex it as hard and as much as you can.

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[4.0B2]

I've drove it. Forward brings the front in and higher. Backwards brings it out and lower lol.

 

[brinker88]

Set your toe and try again. Most likely will need drop brackets. Or you could cut a couple of the coils out of the spring.

 

[Kevery]

This has nothing to do with your springs. But, I was woundering how well your F150 does towing the B2. Thinking about purchasing one myself.

 

[4.0B2]

1. not cutting coils. I need the height to sit level. I am planning on setting the toe tonight. Also my passenger side bracket has the 6" hole on it. It's a VMS bracket on it. The driver side is the Rough Country bracket.

2. The 2004 f150 pulls the B2 fine. It's the 5.4L auto. Tuned with the Bully Dog Power Pup. From Memphis to Seymour MO I got 10-11 MPG's. The only issue I had was slower traffic at the base of the mountains. For occasional towing, like I'll do.. The f150 works great. If you're gonna tow every other weekend, get a diesel. Only thing I wish was it had a little better gearing, it's 3.55. I'd like 3.73's. Overall tho it really impressed me. I will be adding helper air bags to help with the weight tho.

 

[kroussinoffroad]

just build an explorer to pull it hahahaha . mine pulls amazingly beleve it or not. feels much more anchored to the road and doent sway. even in evasive manuvering it feels much better with a load behind it.

 

[chrwilkins30]

You get this thing alignable.

 

[4.0B2]

I've been working double shifts.. I'll update tomorrow with more details.
basically I made a drop bracket that has 4" and 6" holes.. then I redesigned my radius arms slightly b/c of the angle they were holding the axle in the pivot brackets, I didn't like it...so I fixed it. Hopefully, I don't get called into work tomorrow and I can work on it some more.


Basically the B2 is looking more and more like an Expo/Camping/Hunting rig and of course my DD once I get back to driving it.

Kevin there are Explorer plans in the works... probably start on it late summer.

anyone remember this beauty?

rumors are I now have a 302, bw1356, and leads on a basically free ford 9".

but hey, those are JUST rumors.

 

[kroussinoffroad]

so your building it for good wheelin then not worried bout dents or dings

 

[4.0B2]

so your building it for good wheelin then not worried bout dents or dings

Rumors man. Rumors. :icon_rofl:
Yes. It'll be a trail rig. Trailer to and from. So on.

 

[dangerranger83]

So what rumor transmission? If it's a strict wheeling rig your building, go with an np435 and np205 then dual stick it.

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[4.0B2]

Trans will be auto of some sort. For a couple reasons.
I'm lazy. Rock crawling, I'll take an auto any day. I promised Cati if I built it it'd be auto. She's still gonna learn a manual, but she'd never be comfortable with it on a trail. I wanna keep this a couple thing for us since she enjoys it to.

 

[escort_gts]

Trans will be auto of some sort. For a couple reasons.
I'm lazy. Rock crawling, I'll take an auto any day. I promised Cati if I built it it'd be auto. She's still gonna learn a manual, but she'd never be comfortable with it on a trail. I wanna keep this a couple thing for us since she enjoys it to.

Right on

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[4.0B2]

On the B2..

Went back to the 3.5" EB coils. Brings back down to 4" lift instead if 6.5"... Lower COG. Less spring. The 5.5 coils were causing issues and I really just wanted it back lower than that.

Next I'm going to build my RA's longer to stretch it out a little to help with tire clearance. Lower and longer. Just going a couple inches over stock wheelbase.

 

[kroussinoffroad]

o.k. start building the explorer allready!!!

 

[4.0B2]

I'm so far behind on this... working 50 hours a week tends to do that. I'm sure y'all have noticed I'm not as active. I'm still alive and all.

The B2; wheelbase stretched 2", it's aligned. my rear soft brake line (the feed) committed suicide, it came untied and melted itself on the exhaust.

only thing right now is I have to trim the front a little so it doesn't rub when flexed, I'm gonna try to find out the easiest cleanest way to do this.

next is bastard pack of leafs for something with a little better flex and that is about an inch lower... once that is done, I'll bump stop it where it needs to be... remember this is a camping/expo/slight rock/daily driver/hunting build.. not a major trail rig.

on the explorer; well that's still in planning. I'm actually gonna start a thread on it soon for planning out and getting input from y'all before I start buying stuff and ending up with something I don't need lol.
Go here to talk about the explorer... Kroussin, I want your input for sure.
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1335489#post1335489