Long Travel BS Thread

Understood and correct me if I am wrong...when a steering rack and its dampening are designed for a 265 and you add the size and the weight of a 35 the feedback in your hands is going to be far more than what that OE rack is designed for. When you add a stabilizer with stronger dampening than the OE rack it simply gets you back to a similar amount of feedback as OE. IE: if you are crawling over a bunch of loose football sized rock and you tires are constantly sharply deflecting off of those surfaces or IE: you are on an extremely rutted dirt road and your tires are sharply deflecting in and out of odd angled ruts nothing you do to your suspension or alignment is going to combat the steering wheel feedback of a 35" tire hitting that stuff ? Unless you could rake the front end out like a chopper...that would slow down the steering and feedback at higher speeds but you are still going to have the heavy tire issues at slow speeds right ?

 

It's much easier to do than you think. I did them by myself just from watching videos. Minimal tools are required. I think the 2nd shock only took me like 25 minutes to do.

 

Could someone with the DMZ rear kit please take a photo from the back of the truck that shows the DMZ rear hangar and shackle. I need to see how the hangar sits in relation to the frame rail please, thanks !

 

Thanks Chris, so with that hangar and shackle sitting completely outboard of the frame rail the new spring perches you put on the rear axle must sit a little wider on the axle than the OE perches too right ?

 

The spring hangar goes the exact same place as the stock one from what I remember.

 

Dropped in the new differentials today. Now on 4.88s with ARB air lockers front and rear.

 

Finally got some of the cage welded up.

 

James went out and used his truck again this weekend. 37s really do good on the truck

 

Sick!

 

https://instagram.com/p/3FxxiJKS-P/

Never linked an Instagram vid before let's see if this works. Hitting some whoops after doing some changes to the rear.

 

It worked. Looks like you need more motor!

 

There is plenty of motor still left I was just partial throttle. I'm keeping it under 60 until I get a cage.

 

Good call.

 

Yay for broken racks

 

Ouch. Just weld it back. Hhhhaaha

 

I was actually thinking about that haha

 

Hahaha. Jb weld it. Should hold for 100k.

 

I wish id kept the two racks i did that too. The case was all that broke. TIG welded would have been fine.