It's a 96 5.8 with all the options, 6" superlift with extended radius arms and rear springs. The rear quarters are beat to hell and need replacement.
I stumbled upon a set of front and rear +3 width, +2 rise fiberglass from someone else's project. Rears are full wrap around and fronts are "bolt on" I plan on skinning the factory fenders for the support and bolting the fiberglass over it. Rears are bond on and I'll glue them on ala Corvette.
Yeah, it'll be a bit of a poser with out the cut and turn and coil overs, but I cant afford those right now.
My questions are, what shocks? I was thinking about the 6" lift 5100's front and rear but I have a feeling that I would be travel limited with them in the stock location. I also do have a collection of parts when I was going to do a D44 solid axle, including 78 coil buckets and F250 shock mounts.
Out back, I was thinking about swapping the 8.8 with either the 10.25 I have or going out and getting a 9.75 out of a 2004ish E150 with a 5.4 to maintain the 5x5.5, either way I probably need to regear, as the 10.25 has 4.10's and the D50 front chunk I have is also only 4.10s. I think I need 4.56s or 4.88s. Not sure what rear spring I will run, but I need something to maintain the ability to tow up to 4k (popup camper).
I've also got the D44 8 lug conversion parts to convert over, but I'm not sure I want to loose my 4WABS.
I'm currently running a 315/75R16 Mudder and a 37x12.50x16 TSL SSR. The SSRs are probably a bit heavy. I wanted the Red Label Grabbers from 5 or 6 years ago, but they arent available anymore.
What do ya'll think?
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