Old Man Emu BP51

Wow that looks fantastic....can't wait to hear your impressions of the on road and offroad performance..can you please measure hub/fender when you get a chance? What bumpstops did you install on the leafsprings? My BP-51s are on the way and from looking at your pics there is some rake, even with a camper shell. Looks great, but I may want to level mine on install. Can i do that by adjusting the shocks ? Does anyone know the best way? Thanks for the pics, hopefully we can get some more!! Thanks Auggie

 

You left your sway bar on? Why?! No!!

 

It's meant for road just as much as off the road. One day I plan on getting quick disconnect sway bars though.

 

Didn't know there was such a thing.....cool!!

 

You need to watch the disconnects. I have not heard of any working on the 2nd gens. The disconnected bar contacts the CV joint, rupturing the boot and possible other carnage.

 

That's good to know. I'll look into it, thanks.

 

Any new 1st impressions? Mine are on the way so I'm committed, but would still love to hear some 1st hand takeaways, thx,,auggie

 

Hub/fender:
FL 23.5"
FR 24.25"
RL 25"
RR 24.75"
It says to get it looked at after 5000km so I'll get it evened out then. I had the Timbren Active Offroad bumpstops installed.

You can adjust the front height from the coils and the rear by removing or adding the leaves. It's supposed up be around a 2-3" adjustable lift but mine went about 4". The picture are my before and after measurements from the technician.

The suspension handled great. When I moved the front compression to the second line it became super soft and I could hardly feel the small bumps going about 10-15mph. I didn't adjust the damping or rear cause it was a pain to get to and everything was covered in mud. My tires were around 33psi.

 

You got those covered in mud pretty quickly lol. How do you like them?

 

I'm tempted to get some of this stuff for mine.
https://youtu.be/BvTkefJHfC0

 

Run into any vibration issues at near 4" of lift??

 

I do feel a little vibration. There isn't much though and some might be because my alignment isn't perfect. I haven't yet installed my driveline carrier bearing drop kit, I plan to do that this week.

 

A paint job with that would be sick

 

We did trail 308 at LBL and it was basically all mud. We actually had to turn around at one point because the mud was too deep. So far I'm loving the suspension. It's easy to adjust and the adjustments really make a difference at each setting. I'll keep playing around with them and tell you what I like best at some point.

 

Can't wait to hear what a "good" combination might be.

I've been looking around at kits and trying to find if this is competitively priced. I'm using All-Pro's kit offerings to compare it to.

For $2,000 they have a "Pro" kit with Bilstein shocks that provides roughly the same lift and range of movement. For $4,000 they have the "Apex" kit which is basically the same but with Fox shocks that are ADJUSTABLE. This is as close as I can find to something comparable in a "kit" to the BP-51 kits. Does this look right to everybody? The BP-51s seem to be a good deal in comparison (if they perform well).

 

Install happening now!

 

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