Long Travel BS Thread

^^^^ Nice. Im still waiting on my coil overs from fox. I ordered them July31.....

 

He finished it last week, pretty unreal and he's a super cool guy.

 

That sucks man. I've heard in the past fox has had huge wait times. I ordered mine last week, could have gotten them sooner but I was busy with work.

 

Thanks for the info man! Will definitely come in handy. I already have a shift kit and art carr shifter now if I get the kit you posted I'd be all set. Sent you a PM as well.

 

Did you order straight from Fox. I may be able to check the status for you and get them rushed.

 

No I ordered them from Toytec. It's really not a big deal right now because the truck is sitting waiting for parts for my 3.4l swap and 4x4 conversion. I wasn't complaining. Just mentioning that fox took a while that's all. I appreciate your offer. Thanks!

 

I had 2 sets of the Guard Dogs and usually left them at about 20 and never had any issues with them crawling or going fast.

 

Put in some hard work today and did some straight up sexy long travel shit to the truck.

Alright, maybe it's not sexy long travel stuff... but it was a bitch. Tight spaces and a dirty truck. Fully winterized... block heater, battery tender, oil pan heater, transmission pan heater, junction box / multi-outlet, complete drain/fill on coolant.

 

@Basikbiker,

I took a look at the alignment cams while I was under there, I have tons of room on the rear mounting point to increase caster. Not sure how much damage that's going to do to me on camber, but at this point if it will stabilize the truck out some (improving from 1 degree of caster), I'll deal with it!

When I get around to rebuilding the coil overs I am going to cycle it like you were talking about to find the best ride height / camber point.

 

One of those little harbor freight digital angle finders work awesome for that by the way run a few lug nuts down on the rotor and plop that on the wheel mounting surface vertically and your laughing

 

And hey are the rear axle wheel bearings different on each side? 2nd gen w/elocker 6 lug, looking on rock auto and they only have one bearing listed, thought I read sumwhere they were different?

 

Yep, I've got one off Amazon on the way here right now.

Are you setting your toe off the rotors too? Seems like it would be easier to do, albeit the numbers would be smaller and you'd have to do some math to figure out what you need on the rotors to get the toe you want on the tires.

 

I guess you could get in the ballpark that way, but I'd do it off the tires if u can

 

If you do it that way make sure you set the suspension at what the ride height would be, but that still wouldnt be as accurate as with the tires on and the truck on the ground

 

I have a slight erection after reading that

 

I bet there is a reason that airing the tires down voids the warranty.

http://www.treadwright.com/what-remold/faq#q1

Any time some company says using their product in a specific way voids your warranty, but then goes on to tell you who has done it and its going to be fine is shady as shit to me.

Crawling I wouldn't be concern with in the slightest, only trusting my life to a tire that the company won't stand behind aired down. I go too fast to run a tire that may not perform under those conditions.

 

sorry for the mis-info, so are you supposed to pre-heat forged steel before welding?

 

Throw it in an oven or on the grill!

 

okay next time ill definitely preheat. Thank you.

 

Is it possible to weld spindles with a stick welder and 7018 rod? Or does it have to be mig. Of course with the pre heat.