Long Travel BS Thread

Recheck all bolts....

 

Hmmmm cam bolts torqued to spec? Have a friend watch the suspension, or you do, and then bounce the bumper hard and see if you can anything unusual or pin point eh clunk

 

If you think bypass sounds but not sure just close all the tubes

 

Keep driving around a parking lot or something until you can replicate the sound every time or almost every time going over something, turning around, etc. Try to get a video of it.

I had a cam bolt mushroom out so while I could torque it to spec, it still wasn't holding the lca onto the mount with that proper torque - it was torque if the mushroomed threads pushing against the cam tab while the lca still had enough play in it to cause noises and I could feel it have play when I rolled that tire into a parking block. Didn't figure it out until I took the kit off and saw the bolt seized up in there.

 

Mount a gopro under that bitch!

 

This is what I did when I couldn't figure out if I had a bad wheel bearing or a bad diff. Was like 90% sure it was a diff, but at times the sounds seemed to come from up front, mounted a GoPro in the wheel well, yep bad diff lol.

Was also praying it was a bad $200 wheel bearing, and not a $2000 rear diff lol

 

Bypasses make more of clicking noise, and not normally at low speed

 

Do you know anything about plastic check valves?

 

A bypass will click over a speed bump since he said that when he hears it.

 

I'm not familiar with the all pro stuff but my thought is that with the exception of Baja kits that any other LT kit will require dedicated LT coils.

 

I thought there is also a " spacer" you can run to allow regluar coilovers to work with LT until you upgrade to the proper coilovers

 

all pro used to sell them but I can't find on their site anymore. Again if you don't want send it my way haha there is a pair of icon LT coilovers for sale on here as well which could make for a nice somewhat inexpensive step up to an all pro lt kit

 

If you strap them short I think temporarily they will work. I've heard about other guys using stock coilovers until their 8" were ready. Might want to wait for a more certain answer though.

 

You can run the OE series King coilovers on Baja Kits +2 LT kit, or so they told me when I was discussing their kit with them during the recent group buy. Their kit uses a top spacer to run them, and you lose 1-2" of travel. I don't know if they sell the top spacer by itself.

 

Yep, you would just need to adjust limit straps accordingly and change them when you get your LT shocks. I was going to do this when I got my kit if shocks were gonna take much longer to be finished.

 

Basically you be bolting up an LT kit but strapping the shit out of it back to OE travel specs to prevent damage to your stock length shocks. Just a way to piece out the install I suppose. I don't imagine you would gain much travel out of the deal.

 

If you have it strapped right you shouldnt have any extra travel right as that would stress the OEM coils? I say get the kit, then hold off on the install until you get proper coils. Just to me it would suck if something went wrong in the interim.

 

What's the point in putting in the kit but haveing to wait to use it? May as well just wait and save up for shocks at the same time imo.

Not sure I would run stock lengeth shocks. You would need to cycle it and see if the shock bottoms out before the bump. Pretty sure it would. You just going to run the risk of fing up your shocks

 

Remember man if you get 3+ you will likely need glass.

 

Save up extra and get the race kit - more clearance