The Lair

Well I'll be dipped.

 

So I measured my approach and departure angles. I took a sheet of plywood, rested it against the tires, and then lifted it until it hit something. Measured the angle with a digital angle finder.

Anyone have any guesses?

 

Tree-fiddy?

 

Somewhere in the 20s front and 30s rear?

 

For reference, stock is 35° approach/26° departure.

 

good lord, that’s way better than I thought.

you have to be darn near 0 in the front with your front bumper setup then

 

Surprisingly not as much of an increase as I thought. I think the big benefit is from minimal junk in the center and bunch of clearance in front of the wheels.

I’m 46° front and 45° rear

 

kinda surprised by your approach angle.

I was also giving those numbers backwards from 90

 

It’s really that damn winch that kills it. If I could ditch that I would gain a lot because the next thing to hit would be the bottom of my grille.

 

I went to disassemble the second CV for the LT axles and broke that one too. Hit it too hard with the brass hammer I guess.

i posted up AGAIN asking for axles locally and someone had two complete outer joints. Well ok then. He swapped in manual hubs and just had these laying around. $120 which is fantastic.

 

Long travel baby

 

I didn't find them uncomfortable or anything like that!

 

George prepping for the install, huh?!?

 

More importantly, did you fart on them?

 

That’s good to hear!

 

So what I am hearing is pay the $329 when I order my axles to have them build it.

 

Abso fucking lutely

Especially because now I need to source outer boots and Toyota doesn’t sell those on their own, only in the kit to service a whole axle. Those are $50 each. So you’re really not spending much on the labor for them to assemble them.

 

Cvj has them I am pretty sure

 

I checked and they don’t, only the inner boot.

 

Damn the luck. Did you save any from the 40 cv's you beat to death??