If those springs came off 4dr I think you can sell to someone with sport and they’re stiffer. Helps with lifted. I have a 98 XLS (the rare 4dr 5-spd) and I love it. I wanna do a strait axle soa swap to get more lift. Good job
Nice build with your Ranger. What made you want to use the Explorer springs instead of reusing the Ranger springs? I didn't see if you used a flip kit on the rear.
Explorer springs got me less of a drop. Ranger springs would've dropped the rear 5-6" (which would've been too low for my taste), explorer springs only 4". No flip kit necessary, the explorer axle is already spring under axle, so it was a direct swap for an easy 4" drop in the rear no fabrication required.
So did you have to do any fab work to make that explorer rear end work besides swapping the bushings in the leaf spring? And factory ford ranger shocks still fit?
Nope, no additional fab work except drilling a couple holes in the frame to mount the sway bar that came with the axle. Not a necessary thing to do, but I wanted to keep/add the sway bar. And yes, factory ranger shocks still fit. There's enough travel in them that they can sit about 4" lower no problems, or at least as far as I can tell. I haven't bottomed out yet
@@dajibanlife3017did you by any chance have to modify your driveshaft? Because I put a ford explorer 8.8 in my 2008 2.3 5spd ranger and it’s a regular cab short bed like yours and it’s like if the drive shaft is like a centimeter to long and doesn’t wanna fit
@@dajibanlife3017yea it’s the same ranger driveshaft and it doesn’t wanna budge and I don’t want to like force it in or something so it’s either shorten the shaft if not supposedly I could put a late 90s explorer slip yoke on my ranger drive shaft and it might solve my problem since the explorer slip yoke is like a bit shorter than the ranger one
