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Just got my 4wp/procomps installed and so far am very happy with them. I was able to keep the fender height to 38 3/4 front and 39 7/8 rear. So a little less than an inch gained from non-sas badlands. Ride feels very similarly sprung to the badlands, but significantly more rebound damping...

Those adventure joints are super soft rubber joints. the johnny joints are likely some better and are similar to the krawler joints. On mildly triangulated setups like this you want the high misalignment, but as stiff as reasonably possible linearly. In my mind, rod ends on all four axle...

For those with the RK kit, are you guys running solid sphericals or rod ends? Or still bushing/spherical combo joints (johnny joint etc)?

You gonna go with short axle tubes to reduce the cv angles? This is awesome, although I believe we have different definitions of “fit”. :ROFLMAO:

Looking at his images, his turnbuckles appear much longer. I wonder if RJ started offering longer ones based on user issues like yours.

I have a badlands with the leaking oem rear bilsteins. I have replaced them with aftermarket coilovers. I am wondering when the time comes in Q3 or Q4 when the warranty solution is released, will I be able to exchange my leaking oem shocks for the updated ones without install, or will I need...

This may have been asked already, but I could not find it. But if I have already replaced mine, I wonder if ford will let me just bring in my defective ones and they give me the new ones uninstalled. It would be nice to not have a recall notice on the VIN, but I am not going to take off my...

I have the harken lift, and honestly I don't like it. There is way too much friction in the pully system that it is nearly impossible for one person to pull the straps down from the ceiling when I am trying to lift the top. I really wish I would have just attached a mini electric winch to my...

No. Alignment won't fix rubbing. You either need to move what is rubbing (tire) or what is being rubbed (swaybar) so that they are not trying to occupy the same space. Wheel spacers or lower offset wheels are one method of accomplishing this.

Paid for most of my engineering degree running manual and CNC machines through college. Definitely two sides of that education that greatly benefited my career.

87-Z28 is skilled with a compass and scale. That is for certain. I have gone through old drawings before on draft tables that truly made me appreciate the effort it took before the computer age.

Wish I still had an Adams license or even OptimumK to run them through.

Toyota guys have been running them for a while. With some lithium grease and some boots it should be very low friction. At some point you can't get around the physical aspect that a rack with teeth cutouts is very difficult to support on all sides. My thought is something along these...

From the other kinematic thread, but figured it applies here, but I wonder when something like this will be the solution for the rack concerns. https://www.tt-motorsports.com/product-page/tt-motorsports-95-04-toyota-tacoma-96-02-4runner-rack-and-pinion-slider I am also pretty familiar with the...

Man someone pissed in that dudes cheerios. Some really good comments in here though. @Oldhippie your comments about wanted a clear "answer" are very reasonable and it was my first goal when I started doing suspension kinematics a decade ago. The issue is that there is very rarely a single...

An engineer at ford most certainly has these graphs plotted out from their design. Haha all of these design points were carefully incorporated in the design. I think this shows the importance of running less static caster with larger tires too to try and keep the mechanical trail at oem...

Yup, I am planning on getting some tender springs so I can run them lower than the specced minimum. I think they are getting most of the additional travel, especially in the rear, because of the really neat upper mounts. The upper shock mount is well above the stock mount location, and...

Heat should leave with the chip. Otherwise you would have heat based machining distortion on every bearing seat out there. Between flood cooling and chip carrying the heat there is typically very little heat build up in the part, even with aggressive aluminum machining.

I have a set on the way aswell. 😆 Last I heard, Boss only has ~10 or so sets left.