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Long Travel BS Thread

Discussion in 'Long Travel Suspension' started by amaes, Aug 20, 2010.

  1. May 21, 2015 at 10:11 PM
    Blackdawg

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    Same on both gens. Won't affect anything.
     
  2. May 21, 2015 at 10:15 PM
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    Are you thinking of a double shafted shock? Shock body gets mounted above the rack and each shaft gets connected to a inner tierod?
     
  3. May 21, 2015 at 10:17 PM
    Blackdawg

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    Yea..thats how i have always seen stabilizers.
     
  4. May 21, 2015 at 10:20 PM
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    I think this is what most people think of when a steering stabalizer gets mentioned
    [​IMG]
     
  5. May 21, 2015 at 10:23 PM
    Blackdawg

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    Oh i see what your saying about two now.

    Be tiny shocks..haha
     
  6. May 21, 2015 at 10:26 PM
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    I am fishing for pics of my old set up here are some examples just from google images sorry for the crappy pics I am using my iPad and this is the best I can do right now. You can see the clamp at the tie rods end but you can't see the mount inside the frame above the inner. As I stated previously though in my experience this set up tore my inner boots. I ended up using my own mount out in front of the steering rack cross member.

    image.jpgimage.jpg
     
  7. May 21, 2015 at 10:29 PM
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    With IFS and a steering rack with separate steering rods going to each spindle how are you going to run just one in the middle :duel:?
     
  8. May 21, 2015 at 10:30 PM
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    Why not do it from the inner tie rods?
     
  9. May 21, 2015 at 10:36 PM
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    Go lay under a second gen and stare at it for a while...sketch that on a bar napkin and keep drinking until you can figure it out...then share the sketch with us so we can all run out and do it if you figure it out :pccoffee:

    I can't envision how you could pull that off honestly ?
     
  10. May 21, 2015 at 10:48 PM
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    This will do nothing to prolong rack life. Racks that split is caused by flex and movement in the housing. Limit your travel, tire size and stay off the trail and the racks will last forever. In other words, stop driving lol.
     
  11. May 21, 2015 at 10:48 PM
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    Use something like this

    [​IMG]

    Put a rod end on the other side and clamp the body to the subframe above the rack. Connect end end to custom hiemed tierods.
     
  12. May 21, 2015 at 10:50 PM
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    Holy shit where do i get that?
     
  13. May 21, 2015 at 10:53 PM
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    Fucking look it up
    Sway bar delete on a 2p14 dclb any different or harder to do then any other year haven't looked at it yet just curious what tools needed to take them off off and about how long does it take to do
     
  14. May 21, 2015 at 11:02 PM
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    No idea got it from Google. Just seen them before and have though about it.
    14mm and 17mm sockets, 4'' extension and an impact (air or electric). Takes 5 minutes. Pull the front skid and the cross member braces, undo the sway bar end links from the spindles and undo the sway bar clamps from the frame and it's off.
     
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    Fucking look it up
    Well thank you I'm installing my LT kit this weekend and figured I'd take then off while I was down there
     
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    I can only speak for myself but it had nothing to do with trying to save my rack it was strictly about steering wheel feedback from 35's. Even the inexpensive stabilizers I had made a huge difference. We take a lot of surf trips down to Baja Sur and it really made prolonged dirt road missions far more comfortable. I plan to reinstall them as soon as my front end is finished.
     
  17. May 22, 2015 at 7:51 AM
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    That is a steering stabilizer for a sport bike. They are very small.
     
  18. May 22, 2015 at 7:59 AM
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    Well Shit!!

    I have seen steering stabalizers like it for trucks to. Pretty sure fox has something similar.
     
  19. May 22, 2015 at 8:19 AM
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    What year is it again? A rack & pinion IS a steering stabilizer. What's the point of adding 1950's technology to modern technology? That's like getting a light bar and replacing the LED's with incandescent Christmas tree lights.
    Steering stabilizers are a band aid for sloppy suspension. It won't strengthen the rack/pinion in any way. Any dampening you add will actually fight the dampening built into the hydraulic rack. Yeah it may feel better in certain scenarios, but you're fixing a symptom, not the problem. Tire balance, suspension geometry, wheel offset, KPI, SAI, alignment in general, all play into how the front end behaves.
     
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