Mike's 5lug Long Travel rear build

damn, the rear sits way high. truck is looking good though

you gonna run the battery in the bed too?

 

Yeah I put the battery in the bed a while back and still have it in the same area as seen on my first post. I put the battery in the rear because the stock battery mounts where breaking and the battery was flopping around under the hood on the main divide.

 

any updates Mike?

 

I got too excited to even go one here. I finished her up today, well good enough to offroad her. Took her out to my local testing grounds and leans in corners like crazy now. Surprisingly the shocks are valved really close by what I could feel over small whoops. The rear doesn't kick out in corners and actually handles very well. I couldn't even tell that I went over them. Sorry only these pics, I only had a half hour to try her. Of course I had to hit some mud puddles. Maybe I can get out to that spot tomorrow and get some more pics and video.

 

bad ass dude

 

thanks man, hopefully more photos before the end of the week with some action going on

 

vids? c-mon us who are down for the count need to live vicariously... rear turned out nice. did it settle at all?

 

Came down about two inches so far last time I saw it. His truck looks bangin I think! Barely even stink bug now. I'll get some videos of Mike's Taco in action on the 18-20th in Ocotillo. Hopefully he finds some nice whoops to hit. I hope a few people from TW can make it out.

 

Yeah sorry no vids yet. Like Bobby said I'll be getting some action shot in when I go out to the desert the 18th-20th.

 

Side view of the bedcage

fully painted, holding my sketchy hi-lift

mounted the race radio antenna on the bumper so the cb and this one don't hit each other

brake proportion valve is rigged on kinda not so pretty, but wanted to make sure things would bend and not get destroyed if the axle hit the valve when I bottom out.

I think I get an award for having the most worn out uniballs on my UCA. Must be about a 1/16" inch of slop in it. Trying out the ballistic fab uniballs. Only $30 an uniball.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfnuYCqigfE
Finally a vid of testing out the rear. The valving is close.

 

made a gif of my buddy from my trip

 

lol @ the Gif. truck looks great!

 

Truck looks sick as hell. I think with a little valve shim adjustment we can squeeze even more out of it.

 

Sweet build!

 

rear turned out great. Did you do a build thread of the front?

 

how many leafs do you have out of the 50t? i have the same leaf pack just not on my truck yet. how much has it settled so far?

 

Don't want to thread jack but since he's my neighbor I'll comment. The J&D fab LT front was on the truck when he bought it. So... unfortunately no build thread for that end. He did however add fabtech lift spindles.

 

Like bobby said it is just a JD fab kit. Does very well. Battlescars is selling his kit.

I pulled a whole ton of leaves, lol. You need a good amount of weight to keep her down also. I got from the smallest to largest. 1st 2nd and 5th pulled and still slightly under 11" from axle to frame. I'd recommend a F67 pack instead of the 50T for a first gen. I was just curious if I could get it to work well. Took me about a year to tune it. Maybe even do an F55 if you arent running any weight in back.

 

okay well i already have the leaf pack and i really want to try and run em to make it work.

maybe you can give me some advice then..
i have 2 33x12.5x15 general red grabber spares hanging off the ass end of my truck.



so theres some weight back there thats for sure. the bed cage isnt done so there will be more weight back there. and for my fuel cell theres 2 places i can put it.. right here V


or i can put it right infront of my spare tires so ill have more weight farther back. like here V


what do you think?

and when i talked to engage he said since im going to have alot of weight he told me i should get the 13 inch shackles so i did, should i send em back and get 12s? maybe he thought i was going to have a shit load of weight?

thanks for the help and sorry for the thread jack.