Garage build long travel diary

[Venom_z89]

One of the towers welded

Sponsored

 

[harry wilson]

Some progress here ! keep it up buddy

192.168.100.1 192.168.1.1​

 

[Venom_z89]

Some progress here ! keep it up buddy

192.168.100.1 192.168.1.1​

Thank you. Sorry just seen this today.

 

[Venom_z89]

Got driver side done and mounted. Gained 2 inches of travel, still need to adjust to same height as rear of 42"

 

[Venom_z89]

Missed a picture

 

[Venom_z89]

Swap complete, man does she feel smooth upfront i was able to hit 60 on a washboard trail it stayed pretty planted.

 

[gryder]

Looks good Venom, will definitely be following this build! You made the mounts look like it came from the factory like that.

 

[Venom_z89]

I did some parts cross referencing using parts catalogs to determine sizes and find a nearly cheap and alternative to big brake kit i want to do. I found that silverado/escalade 14" rotors will work best. This i believe to be the most reasonable solution as i tried looking for vendors that sell 14" rotors for ranger bug brake kits all i found was full kits, and rotors not sold individually which i think is a bad practice. The escalade rotors can eaily be found at a parts store. Stop tech rotors cost 100 bucks eac. They have the thickness of mustang gt rotors with mounting surface a measurements nearly identical to rangers minus hub bore. Hub bore will have to be bored from the 78mm to 93mm which should be easy enough with a router or taking to a machine shop. Calipers i will use are 4 piston mustang gt calipers can be got for cheap on ebay which means youll have a plethora of brake pads available not to mention same mounting points of a 6 piston if wanting to go bigger later. Also again the ease and availability of getting parts locally without some huge markup is what im going for

 

[Venom_z89]

Rear will consist of similar items escalade rear rotors and gt calipers. I will also be getting hub centric 6mm spacers that will actually go behind the rotor kind of like in some 70s cars.

 

[Venom_z89]

 

[Venom_z89]

Beginning stages of a fully boxed spindle along with templates and jig. My spindle will incorporate oem bronco/ranger bearing, abs sensor, and musang calipers and escalade rotors.

 

[Venom_z89]

Spindle face roughly drawn out. Still need to add the mount for the lca uniball

 

[OFC Ranger]

Too much math and skill for me.

If I tried this I'd be a dumb ape throwing sticks at it while swinging around the rafters in my garage grunting and pounding my chest.

 

[Venom_z89]

Too much math and skill for me.

If I tried this I'd be a dumb ape throwing sticks at it while swinging around the rafters in my garage grunting and pounding my chest.

Lol its been like that at times lol

 

[Venom_z89]

Will be taking this to get water jet once the boxed portions are designed. Which are acounted for in my template below.

Sponsored