No Chuck, not true. To clarify...sometimes THE CHEAPEST is NOT in your best interest. Something like this...my thought...do it right...do it safe. It's not just your life, its the others around you as well.
I saw a hacked cherokee in my work. Guy lifted it by doing really crappy work. NO BUDGET junk all the way. Including but not limited to...(2) 2 inch blocks to lift the rear...TACK WELDED. Shock extensions to the front by welding a small rod from what I would call a donor shock, aluminum spacers up front that would rival HOME DEPOTS plumbing dept. AND, he had made custom control arms by buying 2 stock pairs from a yard, cutting them and welding them together and trying to reinforce them from the inside with other, unidentified metal.
Sppoky stuff man. REALLY spooky. But guess what ? He got into a wreck because the front was sooooo poorly done that it colapsed. One of the SPACER welds seperated, broke loose, dumped the left front down, sheared both UCA and LCA on the left side, and popped a block outta the rear shifting his axle back into the quarter panel.
He had 35's on this thing and the original 3.07 gears.
Front was crushed pretty good. I sincerly hope NO ONE was in front of him.
STUPID THINGS HAPPEN. But when it envolves everyone else on the road or the trail, Yeah...its SERIOUS.
I've seen enough "death" rigs in my 15 yrs of auto wrecking. I don't need to see anymore. It's really F'ing hard when there are child seats in the rear, and I think about my little boy and girl. You can imagine what the next thought is...did they SURVIVE? I would, and WILL, kill anyone that intentionally did something stupid and hurt my kids. Without them 7-15 in the pen wouldn't be hard to do.
SAFETY involves everyone being safe. Not just hoping that it will happen.
Just to clear things up.
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