Crew is keeping the stock front leafs for now. At least until I can tell if the diesel sags them out too much. I'm hoping it will just "soften" the ride up a bit though. For the rear I'm putting on a set of lift leafs for an 8-98 chevy (64" leafs) to try and soften that up a bit and get rid of the factory 4" block.
As of now the crew cab is magically hovering above the shop floor like this as I am waiting on some parts to get back from plating. (no the chair is not holding it up - it's magic!)
As I said - iIt will be on stock leaves, but the hangers/shackles are the "cool" parts.
Here is the front hanger mount I built in it's almost done state
shackles for the front leafs. I'll be trying delrin bushings for these in the part where they pivot off the frame
And then we get to my true joy - the supercab...
"Look Ma - no springs!" That was as I was throwing in some autofab pieces to get the thing to tuck 35's for when they made the fenders
The supercab only has an autofab kit (lift coil, bent beams and extended radius arms) as of now, but that is just a placeholder.
I will be building front shock hoops onto the coil buckets here in a bit. They will hold my 12" stroke bypass shocks until I really get to the build, but again those will only be temporary.
The plan is for bend and extended I-beams (the secret BIG 1" beams) with a heim or uniball as the beam pivot. The radius arms will also be extended and will mount off a custom tranny mount. Most likely I am going to try center mounted radius arms when I do this as I will be converting to a swing set style steering system = front steer. The shocks will be a 2.5" coilover and 3.0", 3 tube bypass.
I am currently trying to figure out my snout/hub combo so as to use a 5.5" lug pattern with the larger, 1" kingpin uprights. Yes I know about the 80/81 F-150 spindles and I have a set - not gonna run um. I'm looking at using 2.5" hollow snouts to match the GN hubs on my floater rear.
As for the rear - for now it will get 64" deavers (spring over unfortunately). I'd like to link it, but my goal is to get this thing running and drive it as I build it. With how long the ranger has been down and un-drivable, I NEED something I can play with in the dirt again. Yes the tacoma can do ok in the dirt, but it needs to get me to work on monday so I'm usually really timid with it.
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