Long travel DIY

Schweet! Wheels on the ground!

 

Well drove around today

 

Hit a few whoops and ruts and washboard roads, truck drives very well steering is good, need to make sum tweeks for my steering stops, and pick up fenders but it's smooooootthhh

 

The payoff! Awesome!

 

Awesome dude!

 

I'm pretty happy with it, fits nice and tight, no slop, hands off goin down the road, not bad for the cams being centered, my geometry can't be that bad, really predictable in a power slide. No bumpsteer issues that I can tell so far. Sucks I gotta go back to work for two weeks starting tommorow, next time home I'll finish the steering stops, and get glass fenders on it, then go take it 4 wheelin

 

This has been a really radical build, man. Very inspirational! Thanks for sharing as much as you did.

 

Well done! I'd have to say you are definitely achieving the upper limits of travel in an IFS system.

 

so badass. major props and great work!

 

Yea for 4wd this is about as much as you can get out of the front without changing driveline components, like the Trac performance kit. I'm pretty happy with it so far( one day of skinny pedal), will be taking her out for sum 4 slow next time home. If there's guys out there wanting to make their own, the adjustable jig thing I made worked great only took a few hours to get the geometry happy. And RUFFSTUFF Specialties has great fabricator parts for offroad guys.

 

For guys with 3.5 over LT how much preload are you guys running and what springs?

 

Fucking awesome...congrats on getting this (mostly) done with the limited time you have! Are you just rolling with the UCAS you already have or going to build your own when you have the time?

 

I'm rocking the uppers I have for now gunna make Hiemed uppers, have it all drafted, just when I have time. Then solid mount the lowers, pain in the butt aligning these things all the time lol, these lowers with the cams centered is pretty much dead nuts for the theoretical numbers I was goin for which I'm pretty stoked with

 

Drivway creepin

 

Next time home I'll be doin glass fenders, steering stops, adjusting bump hieght and preload.... Tweeks oh and gunna run sum wheel spacers out back to even the track widths out, front is 83" outside to outside of the tires

 

Looks good! Planning on starting one soon with any luck. Also I take it sense you have not made uppers yet you did not add an inch in the lowers for larger tire clearance.

 

Add an inch? Can't add it out because of cv's, but I did make the lower pivot point as far forward as I could and still have good alignment numbers if that's what you mean, it should clear a 35 with a little hammer work to the wheel well top

 

Exactly