Long Travel BS Thread

you can use sport action cameras for most of it on tri pods. You can buy them used fairly cheap actually. Just one set up is pretty easy. For the most part I rarely have people filming me and use 3 either on my truck viewing suspension and in front.


Sometimes I place one on a tripod and drive to or past the camera.

 

I keep a gopro in my truck just as a suspension diagnosis tool

 

indeed, seeing is believing, especially trying to figure out how to tune for vehicle dynamics.

 

third gen comes with gopro mount on windshield. fingers crossed for 4.5th gen upgrade for direct-to-youtube capabilities

 

That’s been a thought. But to be 1,000% honest with you. I have more fun driving the thing and don’t really feel required to prove it works. I mean, since the swingset completion I’m over 1,000miles of dirt now. In 5 weeks.

The day I’m required to post videos to prove I know what I’m doing, is the day I’m done doing it.

But you’re more than welcome to fly on up if you’d like. I can show you the absolute beauty of Lake Superior and the UP of Michigan.

 

So anyway.

I guess I will get a shim kit and start fucking stuff up.

 

Not saying you're required...although a video does help with conversations, for me at least being an engineer and a complete noob at shock tuning , I need to show the shock tuning tech what my truck is doing and what I "think" we should change.
And I am an exhibitionist....I like to show off...just sayin....

 

Start in the realm of 15/12 on both with the probability of going to at least some 20’s on the bypass.

 

my fronts 2.5x8 triples.
Compression: 20
Rebound: 12
I carry some weight too.

 

Recommend medium note book, to record changes with dates so you can have a history of changes and if they were good or bad.....

 

Cleanup, aisle 5.

Somehow managed to break the fitting on my coil over last night. Everything in a 3 foot radius got soaked.

 

Odd comment from someone who wants to sell a product. “Trust me or fuck off” Tested in the wilds of the UP fire roads. Not even the SoCal deserts can stand up to our forests!!
Toddler out….

 

Is moving the factory battery to the rear passenger area under the hood worth it to shift some weight back and stop destroying fenders, or should I just step up and move the battery into the rear-seat area?

 

yes, I moved mine to the pass bed, it is in a medium toolbox near the cab. And yes, it DOES help.

 

Come on up and tell me if it’s fire roads. The invite is open. And for what it’s worth, I couldn’t care less if I don’t sell one single swingset. I accomplished something huge with it. And that’s all I give a rats ass about.

 

wait...pass side up against the firewall under the hood?
I may have misread that.

 

Well, yeah. I have a dual-battery setup, I was thinking of moving the primary to the secondary spot and the secondary to the bed/in the cab. standby, i can get a pic

 

Having both in the same location or very close to is going to be your best bet. If lead acid, I would keep them outside of the truck. But that’s me.

 

Any chance of moving weight from under the hood to bed is worth it. Helping to equalize the weight front-back.

 

sounds good. The cab one would either be a sealed AGM or lithium anyways, to avoid the delicious off-gassing