Be4 and Afta.....BL
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From: Hillsboro, Oregon
Remember that the steering will feel tighter when you are done. Atleast it does with the correct extension in there, lol. Anyway it is normal.
Ok, on to some pics....its not complete yet. Stil gotta do the exhaust and figure out whats going on the front now. And the gap guards I got looked like dog crap up front...then come to find out, and I never noticed, that I didn't even have a gap guard on the drivers side. Soooo I'm hoping the 33's will cover up some of the slack.....ok pics, remember, this is not complete...
I would push that bumper up a little bit more too. You might have to make the notches in the crossmember a little taller to allow it to do that though. Yeah Ford stopped putting 2 gap guards in around either 04 or 06. I liked it without the gap guard personally made oil changes super easy with the BL
I would push that bumper up a little bit more too. You might have to make the notches in the crossmember a little taller to allow it to do that though. Yeah Ford stopped putting 2 gap guards in around either 04 or 06. I liked it without the gap guard personally made oil changes super easy with the BL
Truck looks good minus the crappyness of tiny tires and exhaust...but it's all goooood. Hoz's twin is big finally!
Tighter steering is normal with a bodylift install, at least on 98+ Rangers. Completely normal, nothing to worry about.
Though, after a bodylift install, steering wheel should be in the same spot as before. There's no reason for the wheel to clock to one side or the other. I suspect the modded extention for excessive slop which isn't very safe. I'd drive it very minimally until the correct extention is installed. The correct extention is machined for a perfect fit on both halves of the shaft, resulting in a nice, tight, safe way of extending the shaft.
YUP! Cereal! 03ish-04ish somewhere around there they stopped putting 'em on both sides, like what Trent mentioned. I've been told you can run 95+ explorer stock gapgaurds...there's TONS of those expos in the junkyards right now thanks to cash4clunkers. Another spot where they went cheap is the rear fender well....above the mudflap you'll see a plastic gaurd that protects the taillight from debris and cleans up the look of the truck. Then look forward: nothing. '00(i think) they stopped putting one on the front(my '01 don't have 'em), and some 08s don't even have that gaurd on the back.
Truck looks good minus the crappyness of tiny tires and exhaust...but it's all goooood. Hoz's twin is big finally!
Tighter steering is normal with a bodylift install, at least on 98+ Rangers. Completely normal, nothing to worry about.
Though, after a bodylift install, steering wheel should be in the same spot as before. There's no reason for the wheel to clock to one side or the other. I suspect the modded extention for excessive slop which isn't very safe. I'd drive it very minimally until the correct extention is installed. The correct extention is machined for a perfect fit on both halves of the shaft, resulting in a nice, tight, safe way of extending the shaft.
Truck looks good minus the crappyness of tiny tires and exhaust...but it's all goooood. Hoz's twin is big finally!
Tighter steering is normal with a bodylift install, at least on 98+ Rangers. Completely normal, nothing to worry about.
Though, after a bodylift install, steering wheel should be in the same spot as before. There's no reason for the wheel to clock to one side or the other. I suspect the modded extention for excessive slop which isn't very safe. I'd drive it very minimally until the correct extention is installed. The correct extention is machined for a perfect fit on both halves of the shaft, resulting in a nice, tight, safe way of extending the shaft.
Oh and the steering isn't sloppy. Just feels like rack in pinion steering now.
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From: Tolleson, Az
YUP! Cereal! 03ish-04ish somewhere around there they stopped putting 'em on both sides, like what Trent mentioned. I've been told you can run 95+ explorer stock gapgaurds...there's TONS of those expos in the junkyards right now thanks to cash4clunkers. Another spot where they went cheap is the rear fender well....above the mudflap you'll see a plastic gaurd that protects the taillight from debris and cleans up the look of the truck. Then look forward: nothing. '00(i think) they stopped putting one on the front(my '01 don't have 'em), and some 08s don't even have that gaurd on the back.
Truck looks good minus the crappyness of tiny tires and exhaust...but it's all goooood. Hoz's twin is big finally!
Tighter steering is normal with a bodylift install, at least on 98+ Rangers. Completely normal, nothing to worry about.
Though, after a bodylift install, steering wheel should be in the same spot as before. There's no reason for the wheel to clock to one side or the other. I suspect the modded extention for excessive slop which isn't very safe. I'd drive it very minimally until the correct extention is installed. The correct extention is machined for a perfect fit on both halves of the shaft, resulting in a nice, tight, safe way of extending the shaft.
Truck looks good minus the crappyness of tiny tires and exhaust...but it's all goooood. Hoz's twin is big finally!
Tighter steering is normal with a bodylift install, at least on 98+ Rangers. Completely normal, nothing to worry about.
Though, after a bodylift install, steering wheel should be in the same spot as before. There's no reason for the wheel to clock to one side or the other. I suspect the modded extention for excessive slop which isn't very safe. I'd drive it very minimally until the correct extention is installed. The correct extention is machined for a perfect fit on both halves of the shaft, resulting in a nice, tight, safe way of extending the shaft.
oh well, doenst bother me any, just kinda wierd
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From: Middletown, DE
The wheel may be off if Scott didn't get the 2 pieces of the shaft exactly straight when he welded the extention in there.
And you may need the camber adjusted because it probably changed when I cranked the T-bars.
And you may need the camber adjusted because it probably changed when I cranked the T-bars.
Won't getting the alignment fix the wheel?
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From: Middletown, DE
Yes getting the alignment will fix the wheel if they do it right. However if they do it with the steering shaft you have in there now and if the shaft wasn't welded straight then when you put the new shaft in the wheel will be off in the other direction.
And you can add the cranked bars to your list of mods in your sig.
And you can add the cranked bars to your list of mods in your sig.
