Long Travel BS Thread

hell yeah man. spindles to or no?

 

If Hiatt took the deal that was offered to me when LSK first started, then no - no spindles at that price.

 

No, I asked Jerry about it when I was picking up my LT arms. They'll start finalizing as soon as someone is ready to pull the trigger.

Going to be around $5K.

 

LSK is prototyping three main kits on three trucks right now:
1) 4.5" over 2wd kit which will work with stock spindles or fully fabricated LSK stock spec spindles
2) 4.5" over 2ws kit (same as above) with fully fabricated LSK 4x4 stock spec spindles and 930 conversion micro stubs and axles.
3) 2wd Vertical uniball race kit.

 

Ill be sure to keep an eye out once I get the kit. Thanks for the heads up! Hopefully ill be getting your weld on hangers and leaf pack soon!

 

Nah. Just gunna run the maxtracs for a little to.see how it rides n then if it sits too wide, ill go back to stock. I have to use a 1.5" wheel spacer to clear the caliper with the maxtracs but with the stock ones, I dont. If I ran the maxtracs with the kit, id technically be 7" over on each side due to the spindles and wheel spacers. So ill most likely end up getting stock pindles. Also, ill be elminating my alignment cams and the upper controll arms will be hiemed. Steering will be a solid bar with a hiem. No thread on spacer type deal.

 

7 in over per side is was to fucking wide, I would ditch the spindles and wheel spacers during install. Your truck wont fit in a lane or parking spot 7 in over per side

 

get different wheels and ditch the wheel spacers..... thats what id do!

 

or get a small wheel spacer that clears the spindle like 1/8 or 1/4"

 

he said he has to use 1.5s to clear it?
if you can do what aaron said above, id do that.

 

He said he needs the spacers cause of the spindles not his wheels, so he just needs gusseted stock spindles

 

Scrub radius would be retarded with a setup like that, throwing off suspension geometry and seriously effect the handling of the truck. Ditch the spindles.

Plus with a real beating I don't think the Maxtrac's will hold up very long.

 

but it's because of the incorrect offset of the wheels that do not clear the spindles that he needs spacers haha

 

right, but he needs the spacers because his backspacing isnt enough. so new wheels with the correct backspacing would work. but either way would be fine. i would just rather keep the spindles.
i dont get why everyone is ditching their spindles when going to LT.

 

besides, LSK is making stock spec fabricated spindles for 4x4 trucks which will also work for 2wd trucks if you just bolt on a 2wd hub.

 

think stock gusseted spindles would hold up better?

 

How much track width do maxtracs add?

 

haha ok, even 4 1/2 in over per side is really wide for only 15in of travel

 

Because of scrub radius

 

Properly gusseted should do just fine.

Plus selling the Maxtrac you could have 2 sets of properly gusseted spindles, maybe even 3 sets if you look around enough