Front Differential Weight?
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Front Differential Weight?
I'm going to be putting a suspension lift on this weekend and will be removing the front differential to do so. How much does it weigh? I'm wondering if I'll need some help moving it around or if it can be done by myself.
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Last Saturday I helped my buddy Install a 4" Rancho lift on his 2002 f-150 Supercrew. Depending on what kind of a lift you are putting on, with the Rancho you unbolt the front differential and you bolt the new sub frame on and you will have to position it in the new sub-frame. I'm not sure what kind of a lift you bought but you might not have to completely remove the differential. When we moved it it was pretty heavy if I had to say it would probably be on the 200 lbs. side. But I'm not 100% sure because we did not remove it. We had a total of three guys putting on the lift and things went smoothly. You could get away with probably two people working on it. Also the reason why my buddy went with the 4" lift is because he had the same torsion lift as you and he kept messing up the front CV-Shafts by ripping the boots on the and actually sheering one internally because of the pitch. With the new lift it put his CV-Shafts almost straight across.
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I'm putting a used 4" Trailmaster lift kit on for the same reason that your buddy did. I had both CV axle boots tear twice in 1 year. It was cheaper to buy the lift than replace the CV axles again.
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help.
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We went to the dunes this fall and came over a hill and hit pretty hard and broke the one CV. He has been through 5 CV-Shafts on the passenger side since October. He never had a problem with the driver side. But if you have a buddy or two that would be willing to help you out invite them over buy a pizza and some beer and it should go on pretty smooth. It takes a little maneuvering to get the differential into the new subframe but other than that just take your time, the rancho directions were a little frustrating and looking at all of the parts and hardware is pretty intimidating. Its work it though in the end his truck looks pretty awesome. When he gets the posted online I post the link. Heres the link with his truck prior to the 4" lift http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2272294
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oh yeah the good thing with my buddies cv problem was the Napa warentee. He only had to purchase the first CV-Shaft to replaced the factory one that broke then Napa replaced the rest no questions asked
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Also I am not sure with you installation but in the rancho directions it said that we had to completely remove the the torsion bars from the A-Arms. We could not get them out of the A-Arms so we left them in and just put those parts aside till it was time to reinstall them.
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Thanks for the help. My torsion bars need to be replaced but are rusted into my lower control arms. The lift person I bought the lift from is selling it off of a donor truck (he bought the truck for the frame), so I was able to get the lower control arms from him as well. Now I don't have to worry about how I was gonna get the torsion bars out of the lower control arms.
