New member from Chicago area.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:26 am
I bought my Safari the day before Thanksgiving '07 in Kalamazoo, MI. In Dec.. I added a bunch of upgrades.
I started out just doing a brake job and tires, but while searching the internet for the biggest tires I could put on my stock truck I found astrosafari.com. I saw all the cool things people where doing and I was hooked. I notice a lot of the same member names here, so I guess I'll be settling in here.
While giving the van a once over of changing all the fluids and giving it a general lookover. I noticed it needed a right lower ball joint, so I decided to change all of them. Also the idler arms wher a little sloppy so I decided to change them. So I figured it's got 100,000 miles I might as well do the tie rods and drag link or whatever that bar is called that goes from the steering arm to the center link. I used all Moog pieces. I also put in a new front sway bar and links, because mine was cracked at the ends. I figure now it needs a lift so I put in a 2" sub frame lift and new indexed torsion keys so I could crank up the bars. I put taller shackles in the rear and added a leaf with air shocks in the rear and rancho's up front. I put on Cragar wheels and BFG A/T's 31 x 10.5's. I've bought a rear sway bar kit and a TranGo shift kit & corvette servo which I haven't had time to install yet. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for the right V8 deal, because that's up next.
Here's some clickable pics.
That's the before
That's lifted
That's lifted with tires and wheels.
I started out just doing a brake job and tires, but while searching the internet for the biggest tires I could put on my stock truck I found astrosafari.com. I saw all the cool things people where doing and I was hooked. I notice a lot of the same member names here, so I guess I'll be settling in here.
While giving the van a once over of changing all the fluids and giving it a general lookover. I noticed it needed a right lower ball joint, so I decided to change all of them. Also the idler arms wher a little sloppy so I decided to change them. So I figured it's got 100,000 miles I might as well do the tie rods and drag link or whatever that bar is called that goes from the steering arm to the center link. I used all Moog pieces. I also put in a new front sway bar and links, because mine was cracked at the ends. I figure now it needs a lift so I put in a 2" sub frame lift and new indexed torsion keys so I could crank up the bars. I put taller shackles in the rear and added a leaf with air shocks in the rear and rancho's up front. I put on Cragar wheels and BFG A/T's 31 x 10.5's. I've bought a rear sway bar kit and a TranGo shift kit & corvette servo which I haven't had time to install yet. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for the right V8 deal, because that's up next.
Here's some clickable pics.
That's the before
That's lifted
That's lifted with tires and wheels.
](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Banging my head"){kind=small}
