El Taco Diablo... Mall Crawlin, now with LT for tall curbs

I ordered the shocks, told them the application and mentioned my current coil overs had elbows.

When the shocks came, I made another order for the elbows. Figuring that's just the way the Performance series, non application specific shocks come. (straight out of the top)

It's really not that big of a deal. lol

Only reason I even mentioned it is it was said that you have to take the resi hose off to get the two other rings off the threads... just said that the resi hose is going to have to come off anyway, and gave the reason why.

Seems others are a lot more worried about it than I am

BTW... @Crunchytaco69 you guys were clutch. The COs got here hella fast, so did the elbows, and so did the bump cans. No worries on the COs I have Nitrogen, and a fill guage, and I've rebuilt COs before. I'm really not worried about it

 

I was just glad Poly Performance was in stock.

My standard travel coil overs, I was quoted 8 to 10 weeks... 22 weeks later I got my coilovers. (that was NOT from Poly Performance)

 

All good just want to make sure your taken care of, I would just leave those dual rate stop nuts on the body. Just tighten them against each other so they wont move. Let me know if you need anything when you get the shocks apart.

 

Right on man. Seriously I'm totally good to go.

If I totally fuck shit up (which is always a possibility) I've got phone a friends.

@foxrcing07

 

Out of curiosity, what kinda lube you using on the LCA bushings?

 

I buy tubs of Energy Suspension Poly lube on Amazon.

I use A LOT of that when doing Poly bushings.

 

Gotcha. You should be fine, but I had issues with squeaking with the bushings solo uses. Started with the copper anti-seize they told me to use as a lube . That was horrible and washed out at the first sign of water. Then used superlube, but that doesn't last very long either. Just recently got a tube of Prothane super grease to try by the recommendations of others that should hopefully be the permanent solution.
Haven't tried the ES poly lube before.

 

ES lube lasts pretty good. I did the leaf spring bushings last winter (when I installed the Alcans). You saw how much wheelin we did this year... the grease is still smeared on the outside, where it pushed out... I'm serious, I use a shit ton of that stuff, it gets all over the place


It's REALLY sticky and hard to wash off your hands because water doesn't even phase it. I hate it when I am doing the bushings, but love it cause it works.




I really don't like the way Solo does their bushings. I really didn't want to install the LCAs without washers (without wshers is the way they are supposed to be installed). I even got some thin stainless washers to try and force in there, but that wasn't workin.

 

Ya sounds similar to the stuff I got which I'm sure will do the trick. I just don't want to have to pull the LCA's and regrease them more than once a year. Which so far I'm 3x that amount.

I agree on the bushing design. They work fine if you have the cams centered and where the bushings make full contact, but that's obviously not a realistic expectation. My first set got sorta torn up and deformed, mostly due to the lack of lubrication but also because the oversized bushing design and where the cam was; having them hang down below the mating surface a bit.

 

I make it on TW every once and a while

 

The UCA slug that goes in to the top of the spindle... I'm pretty sure I know the answer here, but wondering if others have done that without grinding the crap out of it to get it in there.

... Nevermind... I know the answer to the question.




I just had to grind the corner of the slug off, to get it to line up with the hole.

 

Just going to say it.

Long Travel is a fucking pain in the ass.

That is all.

Carry on.

 

Setting max caster with cam eliminators and cold Poly Bushings is a bitch, for sure.



Sometimes you just have to resort to doing the stupid shit.

 

Stuff is coming together it looks like.

 

You tried 3 linking?

 

Not saying LT is the only pain in the ass... just saying it's A pain in the ass.

 

Lol

 

I guess, it could be said... this entire hobby, in general, is a pain in the ass.



Earlier was just a moment of frustration. I was at a stand still till I could get the LCAs adjusted forward. They would absolutely not cooperate lol