Full width front coil fixes

[Weatherman]

Track bar riser ordered from Ruff Stuff Thanks quikdrummer !!!

 

[quikdrummer]

Awesome thanks !! What axles did you use ? Do you have a wright up somewhere ?

build thread in my siggy, theres not a whole lot of detailed tech info, but a pretty good step by step of how it went together. most of my kit was relatively bolt on, with a few major components needing welding/fab work.

 

[quikdrummer]

That would move your coil over and get it better lines up with the upper bucket but you have to make sure you get a good weld there. Grind it way down and get a good groove to fill with weld. Or maybe you could have some more of them blocks made that are longer and move your coil over. It don't look like it would be to hard to make.
Also I think the U bolt on the upper coil bucket will help you out a lot too. I have the same coil as you so I know how soft they are. Even after getting my lower coil bucket as streight as I could my coils still bowed a little bit and the U bolt put them right where they needed to be.

yeah that might be the better way to go. gotta find me some 1" thick steel plate tho, that might be tricky in my small town lol. I was talking to my bro in law who's gone thru the welding cert course and he said as long as I beveled the edges way down that should work, but it would be adding a potential failure point. thats a lot of stress on those parts of the suspension.

 

[KyleQ]

My build thread properly addresses this issue, so if you are in the progress of doing a full width swap, take a look at my build.

The OP is stuck with his shock brackets - the sure are bling, but the F250 shock mounts work perfectly well with 14" shocks.

If you coil cups are damaged order replacements from BroncoGraveyard, the cups I got from them are by far the beefiest I've had in my hand and they are holding up great.


These DUff buckets rock too - I drilled holes in mine so I can easily raise or lower the Bronco if I want...


I didn't give myself enough space and my coils are rubbing slightly on the coil buckets, but they have nearly worn enough room to stop making noise I dont get any bind, coil bow and at ride height and full droop everything is nice and straight.

 

[quikdrummer]

I made some new blocks today, pics up later.

 

[quikdrummer]

Alright so yesterday i called up the local steel supply and they had the 1"x2" flat bar I needed to make new mounting blocks for the coil cups.

after a good amount of time cutting grinding and drilling, I ended up with these:

and they fit like this:

this side had to be clearanced a bit for the old track bar mount

I ordered some of the extreme duty cups from WH, link, and those will be mounted on the arm. I will probly just weld the cups to the arm directly, I have a set of taps but I think those should be heavy duty enough that i wont need to replace them anytime soon.

what do you guys think?

 

[siderbox]

Looks like you found another way to skin the proverbial cat.

 

[ahansen_1985]

Effective I would consider mounting the other end too the axle itself....better to be too strong than not strong enough....

1966,351w,m5od,205....3.5" lift, 2" body, 37/13/15 boggers

 

[burntfish]

I second mounting it to the axle. If you don't want to weld it to the axle weld a spacer on the bottom so it rests right on the axle. My buddy had a setup just like yours installed by a shady shop that failed and I changed it for him to a setup close to Ahansen's setup.

 

[quikdrummer]

Effective I would consider mounting the other end too the axle itself....better to be too strong than not strong enough....


1966,351w,m5od,205....3.5" lift, 2" body, 37/13/15 boggers

I second mounting it to the axle. If you don't want to weld it to the axle weld a spacer on the bottom so it rests right on the axle. My buddy had a setup just like yours installed by a shady shop that failed and I changed it for him to a setup close to Ahansen's setup.

Good call guys. I have a ton of steel remnants from the steel supply yesterday so ill use some square tube or something to brace it against the axle. That is a pretty good lever

 

[Punisher]

That should work good. I also think you should add an extra brace. Better safe then sorry.

 

[Weatherman]

Sweet another one of my future issues solved this forum is awesome !! I am going to copy what Ahansen did looks good to me and pretty easy to do.

 

[quikdrummer]

Got in the extreme duty coil cups today!

Extreme is right, these things are beefy as hell.

hopefully I'll have her back on her own feet by the weekend.

 

[quikdrummer]

Got the new cups installed.

I welded them directly to the spacer block, then made a gusset in the back. I got the cup centered directly under the upper bucket, and level front to back and side to side.

Heres at ride height, I permanently bowed these coils out a little bit hopefully being in there straight will even them out now

Then of course had to flex it as best I could with my "lawn ornaments"

droop

compress

All in all I'm pretty happy how they turned out.

 

[Punisher]

Looks tons better and beefier too. Btw that a bada$$ looking bronco.

 

[quikdrummer]

Looks tons better and beefier too. Btw that a bada$$ looking bronco.

thanks man. its getting pretty close to where I want it for now. Still got rock sliders and a front bumper in the winter plans, then who knows.

 

[ahansen_1985]

Nicely done


1966,351w,m5od,205....3.5" lift, 2" body, 37/13/15 boggers

 

[KyleQ]

Nicely done


1966,351w,m5od,205....3.5" lift, 2" body, 37/13/15 boggers

How is that M5OD holding up? How hard do you drive it?

 

[ahansen_1985]

I drive it like I stole it and so far haven't been able to break it) in the mud I absolutely love how quik it shifts... Getting astronomical mileage too


1966,351w,m5od,205....3.5" lift, 2" body, 37/13/15 boggers

 

[KyleQ]

Have a build thread? I'm curious on how to get it in there - I see these all of the time in the yards around me.