fabritech solid axle kit
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fabritech solid axle kit
I have a 93 Bronco with a 6" BDS lift kit that I wheel a lot. I am thinking about converting to a solid front axle (I have a 79 F-150 axle in the garage). The question is has any one used the Fabritech SAS kit and how dose it do off road? Any one know any one who has used this kit for a SAS? I need to know if I should use 78-79 hardware and fabricate the solid axle swap or use the Fabritech kit. I know that it will cost about $1800 for this kit and that I will be able to swap in my 456 gears and ARB locker from the TTB axle to the 79 solid axle.
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Dave
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Dave
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Dave, did you ever perform this swap?
I'd like to do a SAS in my 87 f-150 and I'm looking for any and all information I can find. If you did the swap, could you send me any feedback you have??
Thanks for your time
Chuck
I'd like to do a SAS in my 87 f-150 and I'm looking for any and all information I can find. If you did the swap, could you send me any feedback you have??
Thanks for your time
Chuck
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I went to the Bronco Graveyard web site and started adding up what would be needed to swap a 79 axle into my 93 Bronco. I also looked at the preformance unlimited web site for a bullet proof steering set up for my Bronco. The bill was about $1600 when I stoped counting.
I live in Tucson and I just got back from Moab Utah yesterday. I heve wheeled my ARB equipt TTB on some of the hardest trails in Arizona and Utah for the last five years. I have not broken my front axle because I use the locker only when needed. Now I am ready to put something more reliable than the TTB in my front end. Some times I drive 100's of miles to go wheeiling for 5 days and I feel I need more reliability.
What I am getting at is that I dont have time measuring and fabrication. I do not want a junk yard swap and I am willing to try the Fabritech kit. I may be wrong but I am going to buy the kit and try to break it. If it is bad, off road wise, I will let every one know.
I live in Tucson and I just got back from Moab Utah yesterday. I heve wheeled my ARB equipt TTB on some of the hardest trails in Arizona and Utah for the last five years. I have not broken my front axle because I use the locker only when needed. Now I am ready to put something more reliable than the TTB in my front end. Some times I drive 100's of miles to go wheeiling for 5 days and I feel I need more reliability.
What I am getting at is that I dont have time measuring and fabrication. I do not want a junk yard swap and I am willing to try the Fabritech kit. I may be wrong but I am going to buy the kit and try to break it. If it is bad, off road wise, I will let every one know.
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With your 6 inch BDS lift and tires did you ever have chronic problems with the Ford TTB. I'm thinking about lifting my bronco and debating between 4and 6 inches and whether i'm going to have chronic problems with the front end.
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The fabritech kit is NOT WORTH the cost. Only 1 thing is custom, the trac-bar bracket, which in fabritechs kit is very beefy, but the trac-bar is VERY short. Everything else can be scrounged up from a junkyard or from your auto parts store.
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The only thing you really need to get from the junk yard is the axle , which you will need to get anyway .
The kit is a bunch of BS brackets for $1800 , the ony good thing about it is the lower coil mounts to use the IFS coils . Very easy to fabricate.
I would never try to steer a fellow Bronco guy the wrong way , I have done alot of custom SAS work on Ford's and Chevy's . I know someone who got the kit when they fist came out , he was very unimpressed .
The kit is a bunch of BS brackets for $1800 , the ony good thing about it is the lower coil mounts to use the IFS coils . Very easy to fabricate.
I would never try to steer a fellow Bronco guy the wrong way , I have done alot of custom SAS work on Ford's and Chevy's . I know someone who got the kit when they fist came out , he was very unimpressed .
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Originally Posted by 4xfordbronc
With your 6 inch BDS lift and tires did you ever have chronic problems with the Ford TTB. I'm thinking about lifting my bronco and debating between 4and 6 inches and whether i'm going to have chronic problems with the front end.
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Originally Posted by BB94Bronco
So why did you ask for advise if you had no intensions on listening to it ?
I just love it when they do that. spend days asking questions but the answers never sink in. oh well to live and learn right!!
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return it, thats a waste, my buddy here did the sas on his truck, totally rebuilt his axle with 4.88s, wristed arms and new 37s MTR's for 1600 bucks.... come on man. people are trying to give you advice yet you do not listen....