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--By bracing against the adjacent coil bucket to add rigidity. Exactly what I just said. Nobody said anything about body roll...

 

Yes but on our trucks that is what sway bars do, they help to prevent body roll...

 

@sytfu510 Two quick questions, are you getting any rubbing or hitting at full articulation with your snorkel? And do you have any pictures of how you ran your piping underneath the fender?

 

@sytfu510 are you running Poly bushing motor mounts or still on stock mounts?

 

If you would re-read my initial post, you would find that I declared a strut-tower-brace's function to be not entirely unlike a sway bar, I did not say it was a sway bar meant to prevent or have anything to do with body roll.

This is basic reading comprehension and the use of a simile (to convey thought, for the user who might not of heard of a "strut tower brace" but knows about sway bars).

Good question.

 

SYTFU510.

That truck is fuckin sweet!


I like what you have done to it!!

 

If it prevents frame flex torsionally wouldn't it be somewhat of a swaybar

I have one but I can't comment on how it affected the ride since I swapped coilovers at the same time

 

Well, as I said, swaybars on our truck are designed to limit body roll, whereas an engine crossbrace tying the shock towers together is designed to limit frame flex. So if they are "not entirely unlike" then I guess you could say the same about leaf springs and shocks.


And Alex is running the @Bonzen solid motor mounts

 

I figured he was. That's only way I've figured you could use tubing as a crossover brace with the s/c

 

Yeah when I talked to DD about doing mine they said you have to have solid motor mounts to prevent engine rocking and IIRC they still notched Alex's hood a bit to fit a single 1.75" tube across it. However, after talking to Tim at DMZ, he says a single tube just isn't strong enough, so I'm still researching on how to get 2 parallel tubes in there which DD says cant be done. I am in no way saying Dirt Designs is wrong or doesn't know what theyre talking about, I think they do awesome work and in all reality Ill probably be dropping the truck with them to get the same thing, but I also think where theres a will theres a way and we can fit parallel tubes in there somehow

 

Mine will probably be redone when I chop all the crap off the front end. But for now it works. And I don't go jumping so I should be ok. Other than my now busted upper radiator support. lol

 

bareback:

 

Looking good.

 

thanks! can't wait to get the rack, it'll set the rear up!

 

I bet. Any new pics from BAMF?

 

Ride er like a buck-skin pony. Watch out fer the bucksnot.

 

Beautiful photo. #goals. How do you like your tires?

 

Thanks, they've been good. Heavy though, but have done well so far and are pretty quiet. We'll see how they hold up as they wear.

 

Did you get some custom rims?! That's a perfect size.