Long Travel BS Thread

They are surprisingly a lot cheaper for this truck then I thought they would be actually.

 

I ordered all mine from Amazon. lol @jberry813 changed my inner at MOAB last year. Lucky for me @Pelfreybilt had an extra inner.

 

Nevermind... I don't know anything in regards to trucks... I work on lowered imports most of the time.

 

I've had full exposed heimed steering on my truck for the better parts of 4 years now, heims are still good. no boots over them. Been through 2 racks in that time too

 

You're right, I'm wrong, I'll go back to doing my thing... Nevermind...

 

Nope, but I'm obviously clueless or wrong since you had to correct me so no point in me telling our first hand experience... Heims will fail if you get them dirty, never run them!

 

Alright. Well, here's another for the long time LT'ers and general dudes who run their stuff pretty hard.

What are you guys doing to secure your headlights with broken tabs? My tabs are broken on the lower mounting portion of the headlight housings and I can't figure out a way to keep them from moving around down there. Being that I wheel hard enough to break them off their bolt on locations at the bottom, new housings will just suffer the same fate.

 

buy new headlights and solid mount them to a new core support

 

Tube a new front end core support you mean?

 

yes, and build an engine cage while youre at it. The factory front end moves around way to much, any really heavy wheeling is going to start breaking clips. Mine have been destroyed for years

 

Mine have as well but its become a bit more amplified since I got the baja fenders since the tolerances are looser then stock. I'm talking to Anthony at DTF and I'm gonna have him make me a shock tower brace, I'm gonna see how much more he would charge me to build the radiator core support tubed and tie it into the shock tower cage bolt on style. That would be the most ideal thing to do it aounds like at this point, because I know these frames are flexy unless the body is a bit more solidly built.

 

So when you box the frame are you boxing around the factory carrier bearing and gas tank cross members? Or cutting them out and rewelding them in? It looks like dmz boxes around them but hard to tell in pics

 

I think some people box around them, I saw dmz's box in kit when I stopped by the shop and its in sections so you can go around the stock cross member from what I remember. Mine was cut out and a new boxed in cross member was built where the spare tire/cross member is. I think thats what I've mainly seen, pics on my build thread

 

So I'm going to need to Order a special size socket off of Amazon for the LT install right? What is it, a 36 or something? I have everything thru 22 mm