front spring questions
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The reason the factory put the shackle at the front is so when the spring flexes, the differential moves farther away from the transfer case. At rest, the slip yolk is a little more than halfway in. As your truck flexes, it moves out. The farther the truck flexes, the farther apart the yolk slides.
If you put the shackles on the back, you would have to allow room for the slip yolk to compress quite a bit so you didn't jam the drive shaft into the transfer case and rip the bearings out of the t-case. This means your "at rest" position on the slip yolk would be most of the way out with very little splines engaged.
The earlier trucks have rear mounted shackles, but they also have a high mounted pinion, which makes the drive shaft shorter and the distance the slip yolk has to travel a lot less. Your '95 has a standard, low pinion differential in it. The drive shaft is longer and moves more.
There's a reason the factory does what it does. Why do you want to flop the springs around, anyway?
If you put the shackles on the back, you would have to allow room for the slip yolk to compress quite a bit so you didn't jam the drive shaft into the transfer case and rip the bearings out of the t-case. This means your "at rest" position on the slip yolk would be most of the way out with very little splines engaged.
The earlier trucks have rear mounted shackles, but they also have a high mounted pinion, which makes the drive shaft shorter and the distance the slip yolk has to travel a lot less. Your '95 has a standard, low pinion differential in it. The drive shaft is longer and moves more.
There's a reason the factory does what it does. Why do you want to flop the springs around, anyway?
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This is just me talking, but I think he needs a better reason to mess with the factory engineering other than "it would look cleaner". That's a lot of work for no practical gain.
...All that being said, it's his truck. If he thinks he knows better than the engineering team at Ford, by all means, have at it. Yes, it can be done.
...All that being said, it's his truck. If he thinks he knows better than the engineering team at Ford, by all means, have at it. Yes, it can be done.
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