Wyoming B.S. Thread

Gears vs Monte - Round 10

FIGHT!!

And no more prerunner Baby Taco!?

 

Nope! Thank god. Your camera come in yet?

 

No hopefully tomorrow

 

When do you get off work? Short red grade run? I'll charge a battery for ya.

 

Well we're working in story putting in a main line so i should be back to my truck by about 5:30 or thereabouts. I'll let you know for sure though because my friend from Ft Collins will be up visiting in Story for a few days so i may run up and see him for a bit since we'll be out camping for the weekend.

 

We could rip up there on Friday if i can't make it tomorrow though. By the sounds of it we'll have plenty of time to kill *coughcoughMONTEcough*

 

Hey..im gonna be there. You just wait.

 

Lol just giving you shit man. I'm excited/not excited to see Frank on 35's. Excited because its a 1st gen on 35's. Not excited cause I'm gonna want 35's.

 

Just let me know Josh. I'll be buzzing up there anyways if its as nice as it was today. Gonna see how far we can get up the main path.

 

You


Are


Doooooommmmmed haha

I bet it'll be muddy! Break in my new tires


ORIs are weird..

 

No weird. The pressures are not consistent. We had 630psi n the driver and 800 on the passenger and they were level.

Just odd. Gonna take a lot of messing with.

 

did you bounce the rig up and down? when new the seald are real stiff and will stick. JW and I would fill them bounce it some and take it for a drive to smooth them out. We both found about 20 psi extra for the driver side to level.

 

I know the outside is. I asuume the whole body is but it could have some steel inside I suppose.

 

Yea we did. Helped a bit. Good to know about the seals.

No you read it backwards.

800 PASSENGER
630 driver

 

you sure your lowers are set right? almost seems like there is no pressure in the lower on that drivers side... That or go find a good speed bump to hit.

 

Well got a new cover being mailed out tomorrow. Gotta love TW!

 

I'm about to tear mine apart to change fluid volume and add a set screw to increase damping but with that I have been doing a lot of reading and talking with the owner and apparently they built the ORI's for high speed desert racing like on KOH rigs. Not sure why Rock crawlers seem to have picked them up.

I'm not entirely sure what the benefit is either but I did notice when I was in Boise with Mark that my 2.5" shocks were warm to the touch after a lot of Prerunning and my ORI's were not so maybe they don't heat up as fast, but that wouldn't make sense unless they can dissipate that heat faster (which I doubt) because damping is converting movement to heat so if it's not getting as warm it's likely not dampening as much when I think they should be doing more work than my rears. The fronts are about a 2:1 travel to shock ratio whilr my rears are less than 1:1.

 

But technically so are my rear shocks and they have remote resis for extra oil volume even. Though the ORI's may be even more race built. The ORI resis just increase the nitrogen volume which will minimally affect heat dissipation and are for creating a smoother ride rather than improving race performance.

 

This is the best I have on my phone. they are 2.5x18" kings with remote resi's.




They are not ribbed like the ORI's but they are also not soaking up the engine heat like the ORI's.

 

Sorry, I didn't mean they were finned. I meant they were built for racing applications as well.