redtail
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So recently I put on a 1 inch wild horses body lift, and found it was an AWESOME addition to my rig, everything still works!
Now, to the real reason I started this... I traded for a set of 35 inch bogger tires 16/35/16.5 and just couldn't wait to bolt them up, so I did! And you know what? they fit with NO LIFT
I installed new stock coils up front in January, so they are not saggy stock units, but still. I did swap fenders to a pair that had been hogged out (off of a parted out rig), and had to bend about an inch of the inner fender back, but nothing that couldn't be fixed in a half hour. I wondered what it would look like, and I just love the low to the ground look. I have not run into rubbing issues even with bouncing around offroad. the only issue I have is rubbing on my radius arms (but my 31/10.50's rubbed just the same!)
I was surprised with just bolting them on that the road manners are still pretty decent with 3.50 gears and the stock three speed. aside from being a little slow to get rolling I have plenty of power when moving, and it acts like overdrive on the highway
Anyway I wanted to see what others had done on the stock suspension as far as tire size goes.
I put on different fenders since this pic, (I will get some more up later) but take a peek
http://s898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/red-tail1/1968 bronco/?action=view¤t=h4.jpg
Now, to the real reason I started this... I traded for a set of 35 inch bogger tires 16/35/16.5 and just couldn't wait to bolt them up, so I did! And you know what? they fit with NO LIFT
I installed new stock coils up front in January, so they are not saggy stock units, but still. I did swap fenders to a pair that had been hogged out (off of a parted out rig), and had to bend about an inch of the inner fender back, but nothing that couldn't be fixed in a half hour. I wondered what it would look like, and I just love the low to the ground look. I have not run into rubbing issues even with bouncing around offroad. the only issue I have is rubbing on my radius arms (but my 31/10.50's rubbed just the same!)
I was surprised with just bolting them on that the road manners are still pretty decent with 3.50 gears and the stock three speed. aside from being a little slow to get rolling I have plenty of power when moving, and it acts like overdrive on the highway
Anyway I wanted to see what others had done on the stock suspension as far as tire size goes.
I put on different fenders since this pic, (I will get some more up later) but take a peek
http://s898.photobucket.com/albums/ac186/red-tail1/1968 bronco/?action=view¤t=h4.jpg
