Wyoming B.S. Thread

Rear suspension is more important than the front, change my mind

 

Ben drained the last two half hearted fucks I had to puke out for the year. Just imagine what I'd tell you, remember it's right and chastise yourself. I'm just gonna outsource my responses to the part of your subconscious that actually knows what's right from now on.

 

Idk what just happened

 

Accurate

 

@Blackdawg


Put Igor on this
Toyota SAS Diamond Axle With Allpro
https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/59527922

 

nah that's not quite my speed.

 

looks good man. Welcome to club.

The wheels are nice.

 

Cool beans. I for one will be interested to see if there's any difference in reliability rate of the truck now with the extra weight/leverage.

 

That's way too long haha that puts you back in the era of almost 30min air ups haha fuck that.

Been on the highway yet?

I'm still saying until he regears his clutch is gonna be under a lot more abuse. Especially off-road.

Nothing else should change much. But will get shit mileage too on 4.10s haha won't be able to use 5th gear on the highway so..

 

Wait till you hit an incline haha

 

He'll just have to go 90 on the highway to get good RPMs; which he's used to already...so I don't think that'll be an issue.

I'll be interested to see what his LBJ life is like, and if he ends up with more stress cracks in various places. Will be interesting to compare to the previous history of the same truck IMO. Who knows, maybe this just accelerates the move to the orange truck...

 

How are bigger tires going to add stress cracks? Or lbj wear??

Only major place we're stress is added is drive train and steering.

 

Weight and leverage. There's a lot of leverage and rotational force on those LBJs, and hanging more weight off the control arms isn't going to be great on that area of the truck. Like I said, will be interesting to see; I didn't say that he was going to blow stuff up immediately.

Just sayin', I think we rarely see trucks on 35s that don't require a lot more work. (well, unless they just sit there, like Frank)

 

Well...the lbjs mainly support the weight if the truck not the weight of the wheels. I don't see how bigger tires change the strain of the suspension and load on it.

Steering and drive train.. different.

 

Don't wait 3 years to replace your lbjʻs. Check them often.

@Blackdawg I believe there are more forces acting on the lbj than you think. Turning is going to want to push the outside tire under the truck, vice versa for the inside. Another 1.5" of leverage from a 32. Even just driving straight and hitting a pot hole its going to put some sort of horizontal moment on the joint .

 

That's a good point. Hadn't thought of it like that.

 

C'mon now, you just like arguing with me, 'cause you can't stand when I'm right.

 

Lol nah I don't care. Haha I still don't really that no it adds a ton extra to the ball joints with bigger tires. At least not enough to deem it a bad move from 33s to 35s.

 

Alright new debate..

Solo wants me to send my lcas to them to check them and build a spacer for me. Lot of work to do that though truck is partially tore down anyways. So not a ton. I don't love the idea that the solution is to make a spacer that my washers were already doing. Doesn't seem like a fix to me.

I am not the only person that has had this issue either. Austin in here had it happen to him a couple weeks or so ago. Solo told me they've had one or two people that have had it happen but is rare. Seems odd. They also said they only run Moog ball joints which I found interesting.

But..

Uppers need replaced on Igor as well.

May garage door is officially 95" wide. I think Frank is 80" wide at the tires, trying to get that confirmed. If so I could fit with the lt in the garage sort of. Which is tempting. But if I did that I'd need new fenders for Igor at least. New tires were coming as well and still hunting a transmission bug.

Also I can't go to wy to get Frank or parts from him due to lock down so there's that. Don't have room to store him up here either.


Idk I hate having to tear these out I guess and really thinking about slapping the lt on. But know that would cause a Cascade of other things I'd need to address

 

No scrub on the flares? My baby tires rubbed a little