Long Travel BS Thread

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whos 2wd truck? jds has it, and it pulls almost 14 unstrapped

and he said he cant copy and paste correctly because he said one number in the copy-paste and another in his writing

 

wrong. 16" on a 3.5" kit with stock spindle isnt going to happen

 

i think he pulls 13 strapped at 12ish, but i think that was before his spindles

 

if i were to get the lower uniball upgrade from solo for my spindle i would get an extra inch... that would put me at a tad more than 14"

right now i'm strapped at 12"

the 14" is what solo says is possible with a TC kit and spindle/ lower uni-ball conversion... what the set up will actually cycle in real life...IDK

 

JD pulls almost 14" but IIRC he's not bumped...

add bumps and it will cycle the noraml 13-ish inches

 

Its actually its on the straps in the pictures. So I am strapped at about 13 3/4" . Unstrapped the arms would fall a lot lower I would guess around 15" but then you run the risk of damaging the upper uniball.

And very true Matt. I will probably lose that extra 3/4" when I bump it just to be safe for flexing

 

yep, was planning on that anyway... I was thinking of double strapping, 2 on each side..yay or nay?

 

why not just take out the engage spindles and gusset your OEM spindles? Low and wide. I know, almost seems like it's defeating the purpose of going long travel 2wd w/o taking advantage of the ability to go with big spindles, but you'd save yourself a lot of $ as TC and Burg are pricey compared to what you have.

Sell the engage spindles and buy TC's spindle gusset.

 

I would keep the clearance

 

Haha Im going custom soon so now worries.

 

if he did that though he would be stuck with the spindles, unless he was able to sell them to another person with an engage kit. the engage spindles only work with engage kits...

also, there's a reason TC and burg are more money...

word.

dude... i'm excitied and it's not even my truck haha

 

run your straps like how i have mine

the more the merrier for the straps, but you'd be fine with quad wrapped, single straps on each side. save you $50 in beer money

 

Im excited to. I hope i can pull more the 16 inches.

 

I've noticed alot talk recently about the amount of travel, and honestly I know that more is better and such, but is it nesscary to pull 16" travel?! Isn't more about proper shock/coilover tuning then anything?! Not 100% on this, just what I've been told!

 

Do it right. 24" of travel for $5K-

Although a properly designed and tuned suspension is important, a properly designed and tuned suspension with more travel will always be faster in rough terrain.

 

12'' of well tuned travel will out perform 16'' of poorly tuned travel.

16'' of well tuned travel will out perform...

and so forth.

 

Brenthel makes nice shit

 

Since Im going custom should i get 10 or 12 inch coilovers. Or stick with the 8s?

 

16's and an engine cage