flipping front springs DONE!

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slickrock

slickrock

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If anyone has ever considered doing a front flip mod for extending wheel base, DO IT! IT took me and Dusty (looking to be a club memer from Hanford) less than 3 hours to do the spings and ford shock towers. The hardest and longest task was cutting out the old factory shock mounts.

I do have to extend my driveline and move and shorten my bumpstops, but over all easy and quick. It rides a lot smoother and feels more stable. I gained 3.5"s. The only thing is that now my 35s look small. WHen the tires were closer together they looke larger than when they are spread out a bit more. I already trimmed my front fenders so I was ready for that. Now to see if anyone wants some brand new 35s for 37 :) I do not plan on stretching the rear. I already have the fenders cut out with flairs and my tailpipe is about 2"s from the tire. To do the rear, I would have to cut out the whole side section and rerun my exhaust, not to mention I would have to have the driveline professionally lengthened.

I know this is useless without pictures, but I got back when it started raining yesterday evening so I will take some tomorrow (working till 7 tonight).

I do need someone with a stock rig to measure how much of the spline is showing on their front driveline so I have an idea for how long my new driveline needs to be.

Thanks, Dan
 
For the front driveline all you need to do is flex out the front real good and measure flange to flange. If it was me I would make a square driveline for the fron, it would cost like $40 and you wont break it. You will bust the u joints or flange first.

I flipped my springs about 3 years ago. It is one of the best mods I have done. I would consider flipping the rear. When I flipped mine I had to trim the rear fender, but I ran TJ or YJ fender flares and it worked good and looked good pretty good also. I still have the flares if you are interested.
 
Cacy, how much spline are you showing? Do you know how much compression you have? I have the FJ40 type flares now. How much do you want for the jeep flares. I would have to hold them up to see if they would work before I decide.
 
I need to hold them up to my sides and see if my existing trim will work with the fenders
 
dusty from hanford? he like 22 23 yrs lod sells fuel and him and his pops doing a frame up on like a 73/74 fj40?



if so thats my boy.....comes over all the time.....
 
No not that Dusty. This Dustin lives in Lemoore, has an 80 series he is putting Dana 60s ARBs and IROK 49s on. He is a Doctor in Hanford.
 
I know Dustin, he stitched up my self surgery with my new pocket knife a year ago during the Farm Show set-up. Has a great rig!


Jerry
 
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I promise to get pics up soon. I was home all day with a sick child yesterday and didn't get around to pulling it out of the garage. Dusty made some pretty welds on my shcok towers. They were much better looking then my best pass with my ARC welder.
 
Finally got some pictures up of the spring flip.
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Watcha think?

My front is a bit high now, but Dan has some stock shackles for me at the meeting.
 
Thanks!
I need to cut my old DL tomorrow and buy the extension Monday.

It does ride a heck of a lot better with a bit more distance between the wheels.
 
2 hours and good to go! (not inclding d/l)
 
Finished my front driveline. After searching around to try to find how much compression I should have, the consensus said 1" compression. After everything is said and done, I have about 1 and 1/8 slip until it bottoms out. I am surprised at how thin the stock tubbing is. Of course, it was thick enough to grab the brand new chop saw blade and take a chunk out of it making it unuseable. Oh well, need to by Dusty (soon to be member) another disk.

Since this is the first time I have welded a driveline, I ran two passes with the last on top and wider than the first. I really need to get a nice wire feeder. Arc welders get good penetration, but doing a round shaft and having to deal with gravity is not pretty.

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a little over an inch doesn't seem like much room for compression :meh:
 
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