Long Travel BS Thread

I tried searching, what is a v drive?

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/V-drive.jpg

see how the drive shaft goes towards the front of the boat and comes back out going through the bottom to the rear of the boat.

http://www.penztoy.com/coupler vee drive 001.jpg

another

 

Ahh, very neat

 

what is the difference between running a shock at 100psi and say like 150? im rebuilding my bypasses in about an hour and i was just curious. ive always ran 150 or whatever it says on the resi

 

From what I have read you want at least 150-200 to keep the shock from cavitation (sp?) when you push the piston through the oil it will move the resi divider instead of forcing the oil through the piston

Edit: But for bypasses with the resi hose coming off the bottom of the shock this may not be true. I would assume that cannot cavitate the same way because the force of the oil is not directed at the resi

 

mine are like this since i have the piggy back style.

i did revalve them and clean them up and what not and got new oil as well. the old oil was horribly bad. like you were saying, it had obviously cavitated (sp?), good amount of foam at the top and when i was pouring the oil out out, it smelled like a dead body too haha. needless to say the valving was definitely not set up for a leaf spring truck. compression was .10 and rebound was a .20. i switched it up to .12comp and .10rebound.

hopefully be back with results in the afternoon

 

Wernt those devins old bypasses?

 

yeah, but i know he didnt do anything to them.... haha

 

Got my bypasses and bumps last night

 

this^^^^

old news, heres a pic of the sourpas porter TT circa 02-04 ??




herman motorsports TT around the same year

 

edit: Sourapas TT aka the Corona TT.

 

Baja 500 Rm 500

1. Gordon
2. Baldwin
3. Davis
4. Herbert
5. Weyhrich

 

unofficial TT top 5

Menzies 09:13:10

B.J. Baldwin +00:00:11

Jesse Jones +00:16:12

Dan McMillin +00:32:53

Mark Weyhrich +00:43:16

 

rofl disregard, those were 2012 results hahaahahha my google fu is lacking these days lol!

 

What's the best overall spring to use for a LT rear SUA kit on a first gen?


I'm getting ideas.

 

f67 or 50T if your gunna put a decent amount of weight in the bed. You can tweak the 50T's to your liking, I think rj and nelson did this?

 

Very little weight, a spare tire, hi lift, rear bumper and bed cage are really all I need to carry.

Maybe tops 100lbs in camping gear to and from the camp sight.

 

f67's for sure then. theyre +3'' of lift and the f55 are +1" ,then again the amount of lift is going to depend on the length of your shackle and its mounting point, ie; above the frame or below.

 

With Robby winning the 500, do you think this will have other teams switching to Albins transmissions?