Project DD moonlighting as trail rig

[davej]

man it sounds like that guy really hooked you up. i'm jealous and a bit intrigued by his house, outside lift with drains in the pad? he planning on building a shop around it at some point?

[V1GiLaNtE]

Lookin good! How's it ride?

Amazing. Better than half of the car I've ever ridden in. Amazing amazing. I'm so happy.

:thumbup: I've heard Bilsteins ride like Cadillac's. I'm pumped when I cough up the $$$ for the 5100's.

[Senor_Taylor]

I don't know. It was his wife's dad's house. I didn't even think about it.

I'll be upgrading the rear to 5125's or whatever the super extended length is because apparently these are only good up to 3" of lift and I'm close to that, so why push it?

Next I'll be saving for a front skid, then getting some Eibach lift springs for the front so I can change the spring seat on the bilsteins back to 0 (The eibachs lift 3 inches) and I can actually gain some travel up front. I just didn't have the money for it this time.

So, next steps:

Install these shackles, BPV bracket, and brake lines
Front skid
Eibach lift springs in the front
Buy 5125s for the rear and sell these 5100s.

[Senor_Taylor]

Here's all the old stuff. Those leaves are pitiful.



Before



After

[V1GiLaNtE]

Looks spot on with the wheels/tires. OEM+

[D_Eclipse9916]

Looks great!

[Senor_Taylor]

So, my airbox was getting water in it after pushing hard through deep water, so I put some more silicone on my deckplate.



I also had found that the PVC hose I had used for the diff breather extension had a huge hole in it. I bought some more flexible 1/4" fuel line to replace it. Ended up shearing every bolt on the bezel around my fuel filler cap in the process. Oh well. Stupid Pennsylvanian trucks.





Then, we decided to see what the flex was like. Didn't drive it far, just around the back of my house. MUCH improved.

Before:



After:






Not even full stuff. Not sure what'll limit me, shock length or fender well room.

This is why I cut the exhaust before it bent out. It would never have cleared the leaves at full droop.




CV angles look good. I don't think I'll be installing my diff drop for now.



Front suspension up-travel is decreased a lot, but I'll have to live with it for now. Not a big deal.

[Kaan]

Hopefully you didn't take any water in the broken vent tube

[Senor_Taylor]

Hopefully you didn't take any water in the broken vent tube

I typed up a good post and my browser crashed. Guess I left out a few things when I typed it again.

First off: Thanks for the compliments, guys!

Second: I wanted to be safe, so I bought some 75-90 today and changed the rear diff oil. Didn't look frothy or milky like it had an water in it, but it wasn't as clean as I'd want it to be after only 2 or 3k miles on it. Magnet on the drain plug had a good amount of metal on it, but nothing to worry about.A huge hole like that didn't let much (or any) water in, so this new setup done correctly will be great.

[Senor_Taylor]

Touched up the bottoms of my sliders.







It'll just get scraped off again next time I wheel, but oh well.

Cut the boots off of my rear shocks. People that know a lot more than me say they do more harm than good for people that wheel hard.



Removed some stickers



and took off my front driver mudflap, since I'm missing the one on the passenger side.



The rake is really steep. Let's see if it'll settle down.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Those shiny ass Bilsteins look so out of place underneath that rusty truck.. :lol:

[Senor_Taylor]

Hopefully, they won't be shiny for long

I just want to actually drive my truck. Driving my mom's base model Ranger sucks...

[Senor_Taylor]

Got an e-mail from WheelersOffroad saying that my shackles are out of stock until at least next week, then they have to ship them.

I decided I'm not driving my mom's truck any longer so I found another nut, and took a HUGE 3/4th drive ratchet and all of my strength to crossthread that bitch all the way until it was flush. Nothing in the world will get that to come loose. I'll worry about getting it off later. I'm just more concerned about getting this aligned and driving it.

[Senor_Taylor]

Getting vibrations at 20 mph. I think I need to put spacers at the carrier bearing to drop it down and reduce the angle.

[Kaan]

Slip yoke eliminator

[V1GiLaNtE]

Slip yoke eliminator

+1

[Senor_Taylor]

Elaborate?

[Kaan]

Obviously its more expensive, but putting on a SYE will help you keep the clearance gains you now have from the lift. putting in spacers and droping "X" only allows you to fit bigger tires and not really gain true clearance with what is under the truck.

Im not sure what your truck has... but on Jeeps the slip yoke is what forces the drive line angles, which produces the vibrations. getting a SYE is a long term solution to drive line vibrations that maximize what you have just done with your lift.

[Senor_Taylor]

Oh, yeah, from the looks of it, that won't help me. My driveshaft has a carrier bearing mounted to a crossmember halfway down the truck since the driveshaft is so long. You can't even install a SYE on my truck and it wouldn't even help as far as a I know.

[Kaan]

is there a solution for you that wont require you to put in spacers and lower stuff? with a "long" drive train you usually don't get vibrations. you will want to fix the issue since vibrations eat at U joints and cause weird tire wear (which cause more vibrations).