Solid Axle Swap BS Thread

Look at the silver 4 door 1st gen he built. Finished it and took it to the hammers with no sliders, no bumpers and no skids and beat the crap out of it lol.

 

Maybe the guy worked his ass off to get where he is and afford to do stupid shit. Not sure why the general consensus is that everyone is poor. But whatever, I'm over here with my 85 stoked on my new 3" front leafs

 

my crawler was paid for with cash, along with everything on it/done to it

 

Maybe, probably not, but maybe.

My point was, I don’t really care how he paid for it as long as he uses it on something other than a dirt road

 

Hey i did that too. Of course my kit was a little bigger.

you mean 42"s and no dents.

you're sick

 

I did as well and was called poor by the people in here LOL!!

 

I only pay cash for hobbies too.

My comment was with regard to all the revolving credit convos.

 

hey guys whats cash???

 

All you need is 14", if you need more you aren't doing it right.

 

honestly i think 16" is perfect i went 18's and it's a bit much but it's already done so there it sits

 

I'm making some pretty big sweeping generalizations about the credit thing so I really don't mean to offend those that do build responsibly. It's just relatively common to see for sale posts that mention paying off debt, etc.

 

There's a lot of that on every car/truck forum imaginable lol

I also pay cash for my hobbies. In order to build the truck I had to sell a bunch of stuff including a few guitars from my collection (another hobby lol) and a bunch of other crap. Something's gotta give but it was the only way to do it without getting in debt. Was also able to sell everything I removed from the truck as well, which helped a great deal.
Another thing that helps is to go in stages. It's just too dangerous doing everything at once

 

Buying things here and there to get a big parts pile before I cut anything. Next purchase will be the fj case. Then a steering box then links/brackets. Shocks will be the last thing I order just because how much they are.

 

I never said I built responsibly

but at least it's all paid for


but I agree. toys = cash

and I do see those revolving threads a lot as well

 

So back to tech talk. Since I have the leafs apart and losing some uptravel I'm trying to find better bump stops so they aren't so harsh. What's everyone's using. Air bumps are out due to money and would be riding on them constantly. Currently just have some round junkyard ones. Was looking at the daystar stingers but don't know if they are worth the cost.

 

Air bumps are 100% worth the money. I'm riding on them on the street and you notice it for the first week or so. Off-road they are badass, I thought it was all bling hype, but they are for sure not. I'm probably going to toss some on the rear eventually. Downside, besides cost, is they are a bitch to find a place for them. I have a friend who's running the daystars and he likes them, but is going to switch to air bumps. I have fox 2.0s 2" that I got from accutune off-road. I sucked it up and got them because I would constantly be in them and didn't want to be knocking my teeth out on poly on every bump on the street.

I have another friend who made his own daystars out of pipe, a big ass bolt and kong dog toys, all built for less than $100bucks that work pretty good.

 

also running air bumps and i also live on them other than a little clack when they first make contact they are smooth as hell got a set for the rear as well but haven't had time to put them on. i picked up FOA's for the 2.0's with a can it's 150 per. So 300 for the set it's honestly not bad at all.

 

The other nice part about sitting on them, or close to it, is on the street they act like a sway bar.

 

Glad ori has internal bumps. But I will run a set of straps because @allenfab brought up a good case. What if the shock fails and pulls apart? Nothing keeping it together