I'm open for opinions. Here are my thoughts

I took some measurements of the Snort setup on lance's <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> Stealthy <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> I like it...but I am shooting for 4 wheel coil overs instead. (mabey a bad idea?) I want to zap my frame out of the back and tube it so I can have the coil overs in the same position front and rear so my suspension is perfectly balanced (maybe a bad idea??) the rear axle goes back 4" putting me @ 102" wb. At this point I don't want any geometry info...I just want a material list. Not sure about heims or bushings or threaded stock in the links for twist. I just want ideas from people who have seen what lasts, what werx, and what breaks. Links materials? proceed <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> thanx

Ahh yes! I too am tired of the leaf bending game. Ask <IMG SRC="smilies/massey.gif" border="0"> he did both rears in the box! Ha! God I love this.

yea I bent both BRAND new fronts just on the way to the box...granted I WAS PISS DRUNK! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Who cares about bent leavs, i would be concerned about broken ones.

Anyway coil overs are wayyy cool. Did you get a chance to look at welderboy's rig? The three link on the back was one of the beefiest i have seen yet! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> Find out what he used and build it like that. I know when the day comes that i do a link suspension, i would like it to be that strong. Being stuck in the middle of nowhere and nothing holding your axle on does not sound like fun to me. so make i tuff.
just my opinion.

Ian-

Originally posted by COMPLAINE:
<STRONG>Did you get a chance to look at welderboy's rig? The three link on the back was one of the beefiest i have seen yet! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> </STRONG>

He is using MASSIVE TRE's from a cement truck <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> on the upper wish bone, and something like 1.5" Tractor heims on the lower links.

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: Lance ]

Welderboy's setup has some serious beef. I got a good look at it when he was stuck down in the box for a while. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> How wide are his axles anyway?

hey drunken neck i can see how ramming into stuff while intoxicated and bending a $500 coil would be less upsetting than bending a $150 leaf spring. <IMG SRC="smilies/thefinger.gif" border="0"> maybe you need a breathalizer key switch on that heep.

Originally posted by The Rockslut:
<STRONG>Ahh yes! I too am tired of the leaf bending game. Ask <IMG SRC="smilies/massey.gif" border="0"> he did both rears in the box! Ha! God I love this.</STRONG>

Uh yea, 90* is not good when you are a main leaf! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

Phil-
Figure it out so that when I drop my rig up there with you, you can do it up!

I can't believe both rears!!! F$&K!!!!!!

I agree, Welderboys set up is SERIOUS BEEF! UNbelieveable.

<IMG SRC="smilies/massey.gif" border="0">

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: massey2kill Osama bin Ladin ]

Do you leaf bendin' fools use traction bars/Axle wrap bars of any type???

What's up with drivin' piss drunk??? <IMG SRC="smilies/pissed.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by Cliffhanger:
<STRONG>Do you leaf bendin' fools use traction bars/Axle wrap bars of any type???
</STRONG>

Nope. <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by Cliffhanger:
<STRONG>Do you leaf bendin' fools use traction bars/Axle wrap bars of any type???

What's up with drivin' piss drunk??? <IMG SRC="smilies/pissed.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

Ha! Massey doesnt even have shocks! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

<IMG SRC="smilies/laughing.gif" border="0">

Why not try and use a design that seems to work well already, for example like the RE long-kit and adapt it to your rig? Seems like you could do something like that with out too much trouble....just a thought...... I don't think I have seen one with full-width axles. And yeah I realize you have a YJ.

Originally posted by Cliffhanger:
<STRONG>What's up with drivin' piss drunk??? <IMG SRC="smilies/pissed.gif" border="0"></STRONG>
what else is there? I dont do drugs!

yea! welder boy has the goods! I might just swing by my local caterpillar depot <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> Or was it john deer? Whatever..there's big stuff and big hiems on the stuff so I bet they have big hiems for sale <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

What's a good tube thickness or should I be thinking solid? 1" or 1.25" or 1.5"

Now I mean stuff that's not gonna bend under seroius jumpage and smashage and or throttlage! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

I was going to use a a traction system front and rear but I am thinking I might just go all out and ditch the springs so my jeep looks cool when I roll <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by Cliffhanger:
<STRONG>
What's up with drivin' piss drunk??? <IMG SRC="smilies/grinpimp.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

First of all it was an accident <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">...there was a little hangtown involved at the spill way and one thing lead to another <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/beer.gif" border="0">

Second of all I wouldn't call what I was doing driving <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by The Rockslut:
<STRONG>Ha! Massey doesnt even have shocks! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

<IMG SRC="smilies/laughing.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

lol
Yea I do...for the rear axle anyway! <IMG SRC="smilies/redface.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by Sillyneck to the 3rd power:
Second of all I wouldn't call what I was doing driving <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">[/QB]


In the box neither would I
<IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> , Just kidding. The tractor heims and TRE's sound beef but wasn't someone saying they wear out or something. My set up will be on the rear of my DD/ rig ,so I don't need a joint that is used to going 1-15mph going out on me when I'm on the freeway at 70mph.

For beefy yet cheap heim joints go to your local farm supply store or if lacking that go to a farm tractor dealership. Ask them for category II toplinks. These are about 34" when screwed out but can be easily lengthened. They have 1" bore with 1 1/8" threads. They are completely forged IIRc they are rated at like 44,000 lbs (of what I'm not sure <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> ) Anyway I have put about 5000 miles on mine. They don't make much noise and they don't seem to be worn at all. Best of all mine cost me $29.00 each. Thats for a threaded body and a rh and lh end. Good stuff, Later

Silly, did you see my setup yet? I am running the tractor heims too, with 2" .1875 wall DOM for the links. Talk about BURLY shiat. They work super pimp. I am able t lay the weight of the truck on them and laugh all day long.

Dimitri

sweet.

You should go spring under, that would fully get it. <IMG SRC="smilies/thefinger.gif" border="0">

coils are great only regrets are that I didn't go big on the bars. My bars are 1 1/2 250 wall dom and very trussed I thought.I bent a bar and broke the end of the sway a way off. Got it home with no problem. I am going to use 2" 250 wall double stacked dom and big heims. So go big the first time.