My professor has a 94 2wd ex-cab with 207k miles he's looking to fix up. He mainly wants to make it more stable and also change up the look some of it, give it a little spice.

His major functional concern was the traction trouble these trucks seems to have. He wants to negate that and make the truck oversall more stable. He mentioned some wild things like widening axles. I was thinking more along the lines of wider wheels and M&S all weather tires that are pretty wide. Also some weight over the axle, maybe int he form of a toolbox. Wider wheels and tires up front to to complete the larger footprint.

Listening to him and how he also wanted to change the looks up, the idea of a pre-runner came into my mind. The wheels, tires, a lift, some lights, maybe a rollbar, and some body pieces would do the job nicely. How hard would this be to do?

How about ym ideas for increasing traction and stability? Any other ideas he can do?

TIA guys,

Ryan

 

When you say Traction what do you mean, going around turns, straight line accel. ??????

That word can mean alot of things. A pre-runner is a 2wd truck with the looks of a 4wd(Big A/T Tires,fender flares,brush guards,ect.). In 94 there was no pre-runner like they make today, The suspension on the new pre-runner is almost the same as the 4wd ( minus the transfercase and front diff ). His 94 2wd suspension is slightly different
If he wants better cornering and stability wheels and tires will help but not A/T tires, a 16 17 18 inch wheel with a 55 to 40 series sidewall (ex. 245 45 17 or 225 50 16) Those big A/t tires will make things worse on a 2wd truck with that kind of mileage. There are numerous other things you can do like: Poly bushings (control arms and rear leaf) , a good set of shocks, front and rear sway bar upgrade.
But im still not real sure on what he is looking for

 

Hopefully he'll be on her soon to elaborate. I had alreayd brought up with him replacing the current suspension parts with new, upgraded ones as well as adding front and rear sways.

Like I said, hopefully he'll be here soon to respond.