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I see a profitable business plan making concave fiberglass fenders in your future.

My original post was a satirical response and not meant to accurately assess the increased wheel travel due to wheel spacer size. A 2nd order effect at best. Fairly certain it would be small numbers. Since you brought it up, it is interesting to quantify the actual value. I am going to add the...

indeed. Motion ratio is not effected by wheel spacers, ie, lower ball joint motion doesn’t change. But king pin axis does change, ie, orientation of knuckle. So as king pin angles change then leveraging longer spacers would indeed increase wheel travel. plot shows relative changes in king pin...

Yes. Absolutely they do. I read somewhere on this forum, can’t remember where, that adding wheel spacers (the larger the better) increases wheel travel and decreases control arm loads (ball joints and hard points) and steering rack loads. I wish I could find it, search engine sucks. hmmm, or...

yeah, whatever. Coilovers don’t make the “suspension” control arms do. 😳 just kidding. Those are probably an improvement. But not the advertised “wide-track” improvement.

Many folks don’t know the difference so this will likely be fairly successful. Most aftermarket companies adopt the same marketing strategy to sway the ignorant. Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with this trim. Looks pretty cool. Not really more expensive compared to other trims either...

I haven’t read this thread. Late to the game. So when ford says “wide-track suspension” they don’t mean longer control arms with increased travel. But just slapping on a +0 offset wheel??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Are there any aftermarket replacement pads worth getting?

This doesn’t quite add up??? Not understanding this. my use of the word rebound means shock displacements in extension as referenced from the equilibrium position.

There is most definitely preload. Spring free length defines preload; preload equals free length minus length between shock collars. Just trying to understand. No ill intent. The eibach coilovers do have a threaded collar that is adjustable, sounds like you just added eibach springs to the OEM...

How much preload are on the springs? How much lift at wheel? Was everything torqued properly when under static equilibrium? If your ride height is excessively skewed towards rebound with too much preload then there is nothing wrong with the coilovers. Just an installation issue. No coilovers...

I don’t see any real difference between this and all of the other non-braptor bronco.

Wwwwwelllllll… don’t think I am getting the job as advertising manager of marketing for 37L. I forgot the “L” in their name. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ also didn’t really spin up the aerospace machined plutonium cores they intend to use. Noting that they won’t be fit checked for NURBs surfaces that may...

Just saw this thread. isn’t there an electric/hydraulic/nuclear option available now. Best of all worlds. I thought I heard 37weld was working on such a hybrid beast. I can’t wait. Don’t worry about any steering CLUNK noise. There isn’t enough plutonium to be a big issue. Quin says it will be...

If you want lift via springs your only options are a preload increase (collar) or increased spring rate. Given the same amount of lift, say 1.5”, both solutions will adjust ride height to be closer to full rebound travel for the shocks. Not near mid stroke anymore. Since collars are fixed on...

I have heard good things about the hoss 3.0 fox coilovers. You are not carrying much weight. I would not change springs or anything else. Not understanding the need to be level. You have the perfect amount of rake right now. And some awesome coilovers tuned to your stockish weight and oem...

no sir. you didn’t come across as blaming RK. Great write up. Nowadays folks barely read stuff and I just wanted to emphasize that. You never know what can be misunderstood.

great write up. Lots of good info here. I have a 9 sec attention span. Good thing I read really really fast. Breaking this up into paragraphs would have slowed me down and I would have missed the ending. wonder how this would or wouldn’t help the heavy unsprung portal use case these most...

@Brian_B Great to see you get after this. And nice write up. Anything that requires precision and I am not the guy. My precision tool of choice.

@5GENIDN thanks. Yeah. The tooth profile has to change otherwise the gears wouldn’t mesh well. The stress will be defined by the profile geometry. I suppose the challenge is the ring gear diameter is relatively fixed by the housing so squeezing more teeth onto the ring gear will decrease...