Long Travel BS Thread

Pipe method baby, worked on the 3rd try on asphalt.

 

Every time I see someone with success using this method I get jealous. I tried so hard with no luck, same with another method and a brass hammer. Eventually I got lucky and found a pair of disassembled outers, ready to drop onto LT axles.

 

You should post up more pictures of your setup so we can help out more.

 

Dont get jealous until I take the other one apart

 

Mine is on the JD +4. It is actually a second gen but I doubt that has anything to do with it. Did you try driving the truck after the spring swap? The front end on these wont just settle without driving/steering it a little. Im running no preload (at the adjuster nut) on the passenger side and 2 turns on the drivers side.

 

You just need a friend with a lathe lol. A buddy of mine had my shafts drilled out in about 30 seconds a crack. 1" bit and as soon as it gets to the clip groove, they pop loose. Doesn't even hurt the clips.

 

That's what we had to do to.

 

Im going to go buy a lottery ticket

 

can you show how you did? Im doing it in a couple of weeks when my axle shaft shows up.

 

Get a good piece of pipe, longer than axle shaft.
Take axle apart until all is

left is axle and hub side joint.
Slide tube over axle to where its touching the "sun gear" of the joint.

While holding pipe, not cv joint, drop on a hard surface from about 2 to 3 feet straight down.

This pipe works perfectly for this and if anyone wants to borrow it I can mail it to you. Just give me 10$ for shipping

 

So your saying shock fully extended with the 16" springs if you unscrewed the adjuster all the way up to the top you had about 1/2" of play?

If that's the case why on earth would you put a longer spring on there? Lol

8" stroke shock typically needs a 16" spring.

 

"left is axle and hub side joint." Red circle?

“Slide tube over axle to where its touching the "sun gear" of the joint.” blue circle?

 

IDK why I keep having to do this.... We won't be able to help you unless you provide accurate information.

https://accutuneoffroad.com/article...b5Iw7g5juPuPDAKeW4cctJoPLKjdFooxoCEI4QAvD_BwE

3rd gens weight more so it does make a difference.

 

Correct

 

sweet, thanks. Gonna be building my spare axle.

 

I assume you taped up threads and such?

 

Depends on what CO config the kit is spec'd for, I've had two kits now that use a standard rod end, raised lower coil seat and an 18" spring fits easily with zero loading needed. You can see that there are a few threads exposed at the top, that is an 18 / 650 Eibach :

 

No, the threaded portion stays facing up when your dropping it. Worst case the joint comes off axle shaft and falls on the ground. But yes, taping would save any trouble.

 

Because that was a 700 pound spring. The new ones are 600. There are 2-3 people here running 18” lighter springs on an 8” travel shock.

My assumption, which I confirmed after a lot of reading, was I could either run a 600# pound 16” spring with two inches of preload or an 18” 600 pound spring with no preload. This makes sense to me, but I guess I’ll wrong.

 

Sorry man. Other than the few outstanding conversations I’ll get it figured it out. Thanks for the help so far.