- Location
- East of Cincinnati
A little background:
My rear leaves have been sagging for years. I've been running a set of HiJacker air shocks to get back about 2" of lost lift, mostly because they were cheap and easy.
They actually worked really well: as the air moved from one shock to the other, they would actually make the rig flex more than it normally would. And I've been amazed at how well they've held up, 18 months and at least a dozen wheeling trips.
Til Saturday. A little too much fun at Big Rock with Nick and Tom et al...
Suddenly they just wouldn't hold air. It was slow enough that I couldn't track down the leak, but they'd bleed off 80psi to nothing in a half hour.
Without em, my springs are almost completely flat, even a little S shaped. And losing those 2" is enough to wreck havoc on my driveshaft angles. That's how I blew a ujoint on the maiden voyage with the new engine.
Eventually, I'm gonna need leaf packs, obviously. In the meantime, though, there's something I've wondered about for years, and this is a golden opportunity to try it.
I'm doing blocks.
My rear leaves have been sagging for years. I've been running a set of HiJacker air shocks to get back about 2" of lost lift, mostly because they were cheap and easy.
They actually worked really well: as the air moved from one shock to the other, they would actually make the rig flex more than it normally would. And I've been amazed at how well they've held up, 18 months and at least a dozen wheeling trips.
Til Saturday. A little too much fun at Big Rock with Nick and Tom et al...
Suddenly they just wouldn't hold air. It was slow enough that I couldn't track down the leak, but they'd bleed off 80psi to nothing in a half hour.
Without em, my springs are almost completely flat, even a little S shaped. And losing those 2" is enough to wreck havoc on my driveshaft angles. That's how I blew a ujoint on the maiden voyage with the new engine.
Eventually, I'm gonna need leaf packs, obviously. In the meantime, though, there's something I've wondered about for years, and this is a golden opportunity to try it.
I'm doing blocks.