DIY Rear Coil Spring Spacers "How-To"

[Mike_D1980]

Seeing as how I am very impatient and pretty resourceful, I decided to make my own spacers instead of waiting on a set from EBay. It only cost me around $30 to make these, I got the idea from some of the Jeep Forums where it seems that alot of them make there own spacers in very similar fashion.

As with everything, this is just how I did it and it worked out for me. Proceed at your own risk.

Materials I used:
4 - 2" Galvanized floor flanges

2 - 1 1/4" Black pipe caps




The floor flanges I got were exactly 1" high, so welding 2 of them together gave me the 2" lift I was looking for



I then put the pipe cap on top of the new spacers and welded it on.


I cut a piece of rubber to go between the spacer and the frame in hopes of stopping any metal to metal rattling


To get the spring out, I just unbolted the sway bar from the passenger side of the frame and stuck a bottle jack between the frame and axle. Did't even jack the truck itself up.

Here is a photo of the coil spring with the spacer on top of it. The pipe cap fit perfectly into the hole in the coil, and the "nipple" on the frame fits perfectly into the hole in the top of the spacer.

And finally here is a picture of them all installed.

and before and after pics of the Expedition
BEFORE


AFTER



I got a full 2" of lift out of these spacers and have put a couple hundred miles on it so far.

I had the idea of making these adjustable. I was thinking about instead of welding the 2 flanges right together, you could put a threaded coupler between the flanges, then you could adjust how high the spacers were.

WARNING: Welding galvanized metal releases TOXIC fumes. Weld in a well ventilated area! Stuff will give you a KILLER headache!

 

[panda24619]

wht rubber did you use? like thickness and where did you get it?

 

[99 Expy]

How have you been liking your spacers? Have you done much off roading with them, and highway travel? They look really easy to make, and I have some good polyurethane at home that would work great for the rubber.

 

[Mike_D1980]

holding up great. I really don't do any offroading so can't say how they are for that. Highway driving is a different story. I have probably put 2000 miles on it since I put them in and not a problem.
the rubber I used was just some stuff I had laying around the garage, I think it was just gasket material. Maybe 1/8"

 

[jacks3am]

would they fall out with flex?

 

[panda24619]

they could yeah. ive seen jeeps do that. but in order to get that much flex out of these things we would need to have our sway bars disconnected.

 

[RPTP]

Has any one used jeep wj coil spacers to lift the rear 3" before? I read an article that was on a jeep forum where they used stock rear expedition coils and gained 6". They fit perfectly in the jeeps, I found some rear coil spacers and wondered if they would work to lift my expedition in the rear.