4wd cv axles delima?
My truck is a 2000 ford ranger 4wd. I have rebuilt it from the ground up. Everything is new in the front-end. I have put a 3 inch body lift and a 1 and a half inch suspension lift on it. I did everything the proper way. It drives nice, but I have noticed that the cv axles are at a sharp angle due to the lift… My solution would be to drop the front differential down an inch and a half to put them back at factory angles and keep my ride height. However, I'm unable to find any aftermarket components to do it on a ranger. I can probably make some brackets, but thought I would ask here first to see if anyone on here has had this issue and what they did to fix it.
Did you cheap out on a lift? Good kits keep stock angles from the start. By the sound of it you but a 4in kit on a small body lift instead of the way you stated.
This is the trouble with lifts
Off road it is likely either to come apart ir go bang big time.
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