Stock lifting!! For Tahoe 2dr please help and attention

[saif najd]

What I'm gonna do but they add coil overs I won't
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I know I've seen a bracket kit that will allow for coils. You're going to need a leaf sprung solid front axle to get the best articulation. And if you run dual shock mounts it should ride fairly well. You're going to need off road design shackles, a dana 60 with a drivers side drop out of a late 70s ford yadda yadda. There are plenty of write ups.

Thank you I will search for it but I need to check for the front solid axle if I can find any around first

 

[Gzes]

People usually want too much for them. You can buy a 78-79 ford that has them part the truck keep the axles and get a better deal. I can goto dealer auctions so I'm gonna find one for a couple hundred. Pull axle and motor N trans and scrap the rest

 

[saif najd]

People usually want too much for them. You can buy a 78-79 ford that has them part the truck keep the axles and get a better deal. I can goto dealer auctions so I'm gonna find one for a couple hundred. Pull axle and motor N trans and scrap the rest

Good idea but my problem is that ford was not famous or even known for them in this local market therefore I am thinking of getting it from an old chevy can I do that?

 

[Gzes]

Yea just find a Dana 60. I almost got axles for $350 for both but it was a regular 12 bolt in back and dana 40... No go

 

[saif najd]

Yea just find a Dana 60. I almost got axles for $350 for both but it was a regular 12 bolt in back and dana 40... No go

Great I will hunt for them, do I need to change the rear too?

I like the rear axle if I am not wrong it have the something like a lock I can feel it so I want to keep it

 

[Dowsewashere]

You wont need a new rear but it may be a good idea to get a 14 sf rear axle, regeared depending on the front. I'm assuming you still have the ten bolt gov bomb. So you should get a 3/4ton or heavy half 14 bolt rear end. Its easiest to use a ford front axle because the diffs on the drive side like all of our tcases. If you use a chevy you have to get a passenger side transfercase aka a pain in the butt.

 

[Gzes]

Yep. And a Dana 60 is 8 lug the rear 12 bolt is 6 lug so its bed to change it out to have beefy axles and matching lug pattern

 

[saif najd]

You wont need a new rear but it may be a good idea to get a 14 sf rear axle, regeared depending on the front. I'm assuming you still have the ten bolt gov bomb. So you should get a 3/4ton or heavy half 14 bolt rear end. Its easiest to use a ford front axle because the diffs on the drive side like all of our tcases. If you use a chevy you have to get a passenger side transfercase aka a pain in the butt.

True but as I said before the ford was not known

Ok lets go back is there a problem if I found longer upper and lower front arms?

Wouldn't this solve the problem?

 

[Dowsewashere]

No, because youd need new CV's extended tierods and a bunch of other front end stuff. to get the articulation you want, a leaf sprung straight axle is really the best bet. because i dont believe that there is a coil spring conversion for our IFS. and there for you cannot work on the flex, and the torsion bars really leave no room for change in spring rate.