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[Rookie]

when you install a 5.5" suspension lift what other parts will you need to make everything reach? Any advice would be great, I'm getting ready to install my first lift kit so I need all the help I can get.

 

[Yardape]

when you install a 5.5" suspension lift what other parts will you need to make everything reach? Any advice would be great, I'm getting ready to install my first lift kit so I need all the help I can get.

What parts do you have?

 

[Rookie]

I have all the stuff for the lift, coils, springs, Ect. The items that i am talking about are things like break lines, Ect.

 

[S_bolt19]

You need brake lines & extended driveshafts (both of them). If you got the Cage kit, you should have everything except those.

 

[Broncoholics]

Do you plan on raising the tie rods on top of the knuckles? If so you don't need the drop pitman arm. If you do this you might find that the track bar bolt rubs the tie rod. You can cut it back or raise the axle mount so you don't need a drop bracket off the frame.

 

[89Bronco58]

u dont need new driveshafts if you do a 5.5 inch lift, i have a 6 inch and have been running the stock shafts for over 4 years now and havent had to replace a single u joint, it will be fine, a little longer shaft wont hurt, but its not something you MUST have

 

[Pericon]

I raise my EB 5.5" and the front tires are very sensible two the street level changes. I noticed that when one tire is little bit higher 1-2" the tire that is lower seems to turn inside a little. Afriend mine told me that maybe I need to rotate my front differential installing a certain kit. I would like to know if there' s another thing that is maybe causing this misalignment.

 

[S_bolt19]

u dont need new driveshafts if you do a 5.5 inch lift, i have a 6 inch and have been running the stock shafts for over 4 years now and havent had to replace a single u joint, it will be fine, a little longer shaft wont hurt, but its not something you MUST have

On an EB, yes, you MUST have the extended driveshafts. There is no way around it....I don't know how it is on a big Bronco, but on an EB, anything over 2" the rear has to be lengthened and anything over 3.5" the front has to. The length from yolk to yolk on a stock EB is around 30-31 inches. When I had a 3.5" lift I had to have one built for 34" and the front I had to extend 1".

Pericon, try putting a new steering stabilizer on and see if that takes up some of the play that it sounds like you are having.