Shock Towers/Hoops

fdsa487 · Sep 23, 2005

Is it as easy as im thinking if i have someone to bend and welt tubeing/pipe. Rip out the back seat, drill holes above the axel shock mounts, build a shock tower and attach coil overs? Removing the leaf packs of course.

RWKHausSupply · Sep 23, 2005

Sure. Only thing is that you may have hard time trying to get the axle to stay put... No control arms or trackbar depending? haha

I would say that the majority of the work is getting a stable / working / geometric'ly correct control arm setup and fabing that in. The coil-over/shock mounts are cake work really...

fdsa487 · Sep 23, 2005

ROBERTK said:
Sure. Only thing is that you may have hard time trying to get the axle to stay put... No control arms or trackbar depending? haha

I would say that the majority of the work is getting a stable / working / geometric'ly correct control arm setup and fabing that in. The coil-over/shock mounts are cake work really...

I knew there was something that i was not thinking about and thats it! Hmm... maybe the best way to start this out would be to get a coil spring conversion in the back, huh?

XJ_ranger · Sep 23, 2005

fdsa487 said:
maybe the best way to start this out would be to get a coil spring conversion in the back, huh?

if you are into that sort of thing...

fdsa487 · Sep 23, 2005

XJ_ranger said:
if you are into that sort of thing...

Which i am. :rof:

sintax · Sep 23, 2005

fdsa487 said:
Which i am. :rof:

Have you gotten your front axle take care of. I'd redo all of that stuff before even thinking about wrecking havok in the back

fdsa487 · Sep 23, 2005

sintax said:
Have you gotten your front axle take care of. I'd redo all of that stuff before even thinking about wrecking havok in the back

No i have lots of ideas and printouts on the front and im trying to get some ideas for the back now. I know its not IFS but im going to try and build it to keep up w/ my friend that is putting a 6K dollar Camburg long travel kit on his 03' 4x4 ranger. (life long challage)

JeepFreak21 · Sep 23, 2005

Who knows if it'll be as easy as you're thinking? How easy do you think it's going to be? It's do-able, but it's a lot of work. Do some searching. You have to decide if you're capable of doing something of this magnitude. There are a number of threads (like the one RIGHT NEXT TO THIS ONE) that show what it takes.
Billy

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