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Post by osmosis on Jan 10, 2012 22:34:28 GMT -5
After my research I think I'd rather take my Explorer into a shop and have them do an SAS rather than me screw around with it forever. With my schedule I can imagine it would take me quite a long time, and there would go all my weekends (the few I'm not working that is).
Who would you trust to send your rig to if you weren't doing it yourself? Google searching leads me to just about nothing local.
It's a 98 XLT and currently has the 4" trailmaster IFS and an excessive TT up front. 4" leaf pack SOA in the rear. I don't necessarily want to go giant with it or anything, just a D44 up front so that I can quit replacing ball joints and CV's left and right.
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Post by fishsticks on Jan 10, 2012 22:38:34 GMT -5
Where do you live?
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Post by osmosis on Jan 10, 2012 22:53:17 GMT -5
I'm just south of Oregon city a few minutes, but am fine with any shop within a couple hours of portland.
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Post by Buzzer on Jan 10, 2012 22:59:43 GMT -5
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fishsticks
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Post by fishsticks on Jan 10, 2012 23:17:41 GMT -5
Pat (Tonka) is a cool guy... he'll do right by you. ;D
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Post by mudslinger97117 on Jan 10, 2012 23:26:17 GMT -5
Not sure but I think Buzzer meant Pat at The Good Guys? He is the ONLY person I'd take my rig to. Tel him ya got his # off poorboy and he'll treat you right.
The good guys auto care is a full service auto shop in Clackamas, OR. located off of old 82nd drive at the end of hwy 212.
9376 #B S.E. Church St.
Clackamas, OR 97015
Jim & Pat (tonka) 503-788-6355
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Post by osmosis on Jan 10, 2012 23:34:54 GMT -5
Awesome! Thanks folks. That shop happens to be about 2 miles from one of my jobs (the mon to thurs daily grind)! I'll stop by and see what they say.
Is it proper etiquette to find and rebuild a front D44 before buggin a shop about it? ;D
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Post by Buzzer on Jan 10, 2012 23:42:38 GMT -5
Depends if ya wanna pay him to do it for ya..lol
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Post by Bri&Bub Off-Road on Jan 11, 2012 0:29:31 GMT -5
its the same person pat owns the good guys auto care and his sn is tonka on those guys off road. hes a good guy.
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Post by fandango on Jan 11, 2012 14:01:39 GMT -5
You might ask kaboy also. He has an explorer he did and has built quiet a few other rigs also. He is on poorboy.
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Post by bug on Jan 12, 2012 10:40:31 GMT -5
I got all my parts and SAS my ranger in a weekend. All I had to do was put it together.  |
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Post by osmosis on Jan 12, 2012 19:38:00 GMT -5
Was that a 1st or 2nd gen Ranger? The 1st gen TTB ones are pretty much a straight forward exchange of parts from the research I've done, but this dumb IFS 2nd gen Explorer had a whole bunch of conversion and frame strengthening and ground up fab on brackets ect that I really don't want to dive into
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Post by mudslinger97117 on Jan 12, 2012 20:11:22 GMT -5
one of my 4x mags is getting ready to do a ranger sas already ad a d30 8.8 but tearing it out n starting over.
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Post by bug on Jan 14, 2012 10:38:18 GMT -5
Mine was a 1st gen, I dont see why a 2nd gen would be to hard.
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Post by scotts90ranger on Jan 14, 2012 11:19:10 GMT -5
second gen explorer is short long arm with torsion bars instead of coil springs and twin traction beams, first through third gen rangers had TTB, only first gen explorers did
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