Solid axle swap??

[SS eagle]

Haha ya it's sorta like the hole"hey guys watch this !!!" situation half time it's guys trying to show off and they bite more that they can chew thats when carnage starts

[SS eagle]

Hahahaha ya!!that exactly what I was talking bout!!!

[MontanaEagle]

That pic is awesome.  Dude up top with his sunglasses halfway off and the dude on the bottom still holding his can of Old Milwaukee (could be Dr Pepper, but Old Mil is funnier).

[SS eagle]

Haha classic Canadian red neck right there

[tougeagle]

I won't go into suspension geometry, articulation angles or anything like that, but there is a very big reason every newer 4x4 vehicle that isn't a 3/4 or 1 ton has IFS and IRS in some cases. If it improved ride quality over bumps, your front end was in sorry shape.

Appropriately placed bumpstops help with exhaust and oilpan issues.

(I never said anything about bumps), but nope, my front end was just fine; in fact, the SAS gave me a smaller turning radius & better handling in the corners. She's slightly top heavier now, but that's due to the extra weight of the roof rack & full size spare up there.

I don't know what kind of terrain you're used to wheeling on (I'm assuming you wheel ), but out here, all the bump stops in the world aren't going to help when you've got three wheels on the rock & one wheel coming down off. Experienced & noob wheelers all eventually squash something, be it merely rocker panels or the oil pan - the smart ones armor their rig before this happens.

Most of the stuff out here is rocks, though we also have a huge playground, the sand dunes in the four corners area, if I remember right. I've done a good amount of wheeling though I couldn't go too often, I like having spotters and was hard to make time to take friends. Got a 95 bronco stuck on a category 8 trail, had to call some friends at 3 am to help me out.

[Sunny]

Got a 95 bronco stuck on a category 8 trail, had to call some friends at 3 am to help me out.

I've got that call a bunch of times.
"Uhh.. can you come here?.. We're stuck.."
For some reason, they can never admit how badly they're stuck until you get there..

[tougeagle]

Got a 95 bronco stuck on a category 8 trail, had to call some friends at 3 am to help me out.

Details? Build on the Bronco & just what do you consider to be a category 8 trail?

bronco was a Eddie Bauer, 95, 5.8L, bone freakin stock. The trail I was on was listed as a category 8 trail, and I believe that's an 8 out of 10 scale. I got it hung up on the stock step support rails, and ripped them to shreds and dented the fender up from friends pushing on it to get the truck out. Those rocks weren't small... that trail was considered advanced, with lifts, lockers and winches as standard equipment. I honestly should have never been on that trail, but I was younger and dumber....

[Sunny]

Don't mind her, she's used to the kitchen. No such thing as a category 8 trail there .
In all seriousness though, they don't use #'s to rate trails around here either. Basically just Stock/Light Modified/Heavy Modified.

[tougeagle]

http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=HGR221-016 trail description

The sign at the base of the canyon had it listed as category 8, in the parking area. all of this section has since been closed down, permanently. This all happened about six years ago. I've grown up wheeling on trails to campsites, that's all my family could afford to do for summer fun, we never went to Disneyland or went on cruises. Instead, before we had the 95, we had an 86 bronco, and we took it wheeling and camping and fishing, constantly.

[tougeagle]

lol nice, most of my restaurant experience was in the kitchen as well XD

[luvmysx/4]

alright so im lookin to do a solid axle swap on my 82 sx/4 but im havin alot of trouble finding a conversion kit. does someone know where to find one??
if not can someone popint in the right direction to fabricating one?