4banger Junkyard build

Dayum. If yer cutting the bed, you might as well have linked it.

 

I need the weight carrying capacity and idk how well of a daily driver is be able to keep it. Leafs are simpler.

 

Linked with coils can carry the weight.

 

This ^^^^

If you think about it, 'Runners have rear coils as do a lot of SUVs. Plus, your front coilsovers carry around an engine and transmission on top of them all the time which is a lot more weight than the back is ever really going to carry unless you overload it.

Agreed though, leafs are simpler.

Eric, sorry for

 

I hear ya guys but to get to that point I gotta buy coilovers and do dual spring rates and 2k later I shoulda stuck with leafs.

 

But 2k later and think of the buttery smooth articulation you'd have...

I here ya though, Wes. If I ever hit the lotto, I swear I will get me one of those AP hybrid 60 SAS kits, but the dang thing costs nearly as much as I paid for my truck to begin with.

 

if youre gonna do it, over do it.

 

i was just looking at that kit :] SAS my truck or move out of my parents house?

 

SAS. Independence is overrated.

 

an SAS is a dream. I will buy another car and then rebuild or swap my motor long before an SAS.

but depending on how jealous wes makes me with his new rear suspension i might start gathering parts for a 3 link swap in the rear. Fail-gear has a kit that i could prob make on my own for half the cost

 

You and Wes...forget the coilovers...

ORIs!!!

 

i was considering using those, but by the time i get around to it who knows what other options will be around

 

You guys know that when an ori fails and they do. They sit in the bump inline a coilover that still holds the truck up right?

I'm only overhauling my rear suspension so I can 3 link the front with a rockjock. I'm also never leaving my parents house unless I marry a rich doctor chick.

 

so youre putting better leafs in the rear so you can put links up front

start callin you alfuh

 

First...they will probably never fail if they are properly maintained. They are essentially the same thing as an aircraft landing gear strut and how often to you hear about those failing? You pretty much don't. Because the struts are overhauled on a set schedule. But yeah, if you blew a seal with one, you'd be sitting on the bumps...well, depending on which seal blew.

Second...

Good for you! That's how it was done in the old days (and currently in Japan where space is at a premium)!

 

Better shackles, relocating shocks and better leafs yea. What's wrong with that? A lot of trucks have been done that way.

 

if i was doing links up front i would do links out back. thats just me though. i know there are plenty of trucks out there with the set up youre aiming for

 

I hear ya and that would be my ultimate goal. Biggest issue I'm running into with an SAS is the time window vs money. If I link the front and keep the rear leaf sprung I only have to dish out the money for the front link and axle coilovers steering box etc. and later on I can build the rear. Trust me if I had the cash it would all be done at once.

I got to ride in a zj this weekend with an atlas tcase, lockers and a rear 4 link and front long arms and the owner just told me that it made trails and rocks way too easy to where it got boring for him. Something to think about

 

Time and money is everyones issue with there trucks right now. Haha. But ywah in florida ifeel like an sas with f/r lockers wouuld make everything pretty easy.

 

Hahah exactly. Yea doesn't take a lot to make a capable rig "in florida"