Any TNT customs guys on here

[red91]

PARTS FIGHT !!!

 

[shimmy]

haha i'm sure chris and phil can settle this over a nice game of paper/rock/scissors. best two out of three. IMO, yes chris, i agree with you...but i wouldn't be that mad, i'd just take a grinder to it and never buy from TNT again. thats all.

 

[Trailbst]

Wow, some of you fawktards are in such a hurry to say he's bashing the company! He asked a question to start the thread.

As for 1/4", they pay guys like me with "Quality Assurance" training, to make sure that this doesn't happen. 1/32 or 1/16, maybe, but a full 1/4.

Yeah, he has two choices:
1. Grind it and make it right, and bad mouth TNT
2. Call them and possibly get it replaced, then sing the joys of their customer service.

You fawktards bad mouthing his might just push him towards option one, and what does that accomplish? NOTHING.

I'd almost swear that I was on Pirate, the way that some of the regulars are treating people.

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

140 bucks to gain a 1/4 inch of ground clearance? sounds like a deal to me

 

[ccflexj]

its an 1/8 off... not much... i work at a fabrication/metal shop and we usually leave room of error of 1/8 of an inch so to me i would be fine with those... does not seem like it will effect the performance... but thats just me i know there are people that do pay good money and do expect everythign to be perfectly square.... so hope all goes well for you and hope that TnT works it out with you if you do choose to take it up with them more...

 

[brokexj]

Wow, some of you fawktards are in such a hurry to say he's bashing the company! He asked a question to start the thread.

As for 1/4", they pay guys like me with "Quality Assurance" training, to make sure that this doesn't happen. 1/32 or 1/16, maybe, but a full 1/4.

Yeah, he has two choices:
1. Grind it and make it right, and bad mouth TNT
2. Call them and possibly get it replaced, then sing the joys of their customer service.

You fawktards bad mouthing his might just push him towards option one, and what does that accomplish? NOTHING.

I'd almost swear that I was on Pirate, the way that some of the regulars are treating people.

Holy Sheet! A ray of reason!

 

[Kittrell]

I'd almost swear that I was on Pirate, the way that some of the regulars are treating people.

Offtopic, but I have to bring it up. Why do people always feel the need to say this? Is like your safe haven? Where everyone holds each other's hand? If you can hack it over at pirate, you run to ? Most of us are members of pirate as well. And I doubt we act much different. So you came to the wrong place for a shoulder to cry on. Grow some thicker skin and get over it.

 

[jwtrapper]

I did take a grinder to it and I would have to take out a LOT of material to get it to sit right. Then there would be a large gap to weld up. I feel that it would be better with out the large gap.
Here are some pictures of the springs sitting on the perches. Sure they work but....

I did contact TNT, I called them and talked with them and I sent them pictures. I was not happy with the reply. I'm not bashing them they make some great stuff, but they need to check their parts.

I have worked machine shops and if a part is off by a 1/4" thats a lot, they need a new QA guy.

Flame On....

 

[Chris85xj]

I am sure jwtrapper and I are not the only ones with this problem with the ubolt eliminators being off ,we both paid good money for a part that should have fit correctly with out modifications at all. I am not happy with TnT 's responce either and think they should make it right at their cost.

As for ECKSJAY, I am far from being a dunce or ignorant ,I had several reasons for purchasing these perches,It does not matter if I spent a 1$ or 1000$ for them ,when a company advertises a product and sell it at a premium price it should be correct ,or fix it at no cost to the customer period.

I bought these for the following reasons
They should make my 8.8 swap easier due to having to replace the perch anyway.
They are longer than stock ,and help with spring wrap and are built heavy duty.
Buying the 1 3/4 model allows some added lift benefit,you can also weld them to allow for pinion angle correction so you do not need shims.
And last of all,do I really need them,maybe , maybe not but hey do we really need long arms and 8 in. of lift and everything else we buy and put on our Jeeps ,probably not , It's our way of making it our own and different from the other guy.
I will make every effort to get this cleared up Monday,It just means I wasted a week end for installing the 8.8 and getting it on the road again.

 

[Fred]

91 Jeep Project, yes, is a place for reasonable discourse, unlike Pirate. It's not hard to act like an asshole, it's hard to solve problems. Those pictures are evidence of a problem. The TNT guys, from what I was told when I mentioned they didn't answer my email question, are busy. While I agree a grinder will fix it, and I've had to customize a lot of my aftermarket parts, I also agree that for the money spent one shouldn't have to.

I have no patience whatsoever, but I've learned the hard way that patience and persistence tends to work better than losing it. Hang in there, TNT will see this thread, and I'm betting they will fix it.

Fred

Posting more in one night than the last two years.

 

[ChicksDigWagons]

Well it kinda looks to me like the cutout on the perch is larger than the axle tube, and in the picture with the rulers it also looks like the perch is tilted to the extreme side for effect. Looks like if you rotated it the other way it'd be within an 1/8" tolerance, I don't consider that too bad personally.

I'm as lazy as anybody, I'd have a hard ass time jusifying paying $140 for something I could build in under an hour. In that same note, the ease to build something like this should reflect in the uttmost accuracy...

So its a toss up. But my final suggestion is to fix it, weld it, and be done. Even with a little ginder work you're still way ahead on the time invested. As somebody else mentioned, you've spent far more time and energy trying to get TnT to fix it than it ever would have taken to fix it yourself.

From a manufacturing standpoint, its risky. The guy in charge of the jig for that product screws up. A whole batch of mounts is crooked... What now? As a manufacturer you have to make a judgement call "Is this bad enough that most customers are going to raise hell, or will most just fix it?" Then you ship them out, if you get one upset customer out of say 20, at $140 a pop, you're doing pretty well for a defective part and you don't have a $1000 pile of scrap sping mounts. On the other hand, if/when you notice the error, and I'm SURE somebody did (though likely the person who made the error and hoped to slip it by), you BETTER have some square and straight parts ready to ship out when that one person complains. Thats just good business.

For the $50 they likely have invested into this one messed up peice its real silly not to eat it to make a customer happy. Espeically one that just spent some serious coin. ESPECIALLY when you can now take that part, put a small amount of work into it and resell it as a kit for a larger axle tube or whatever.

BTW, has anybody tried this new energy drink called Kronik????

 

[Trailbst]

Offtopic, but I have to bring it up. Why do people always feel the need to say this? Is like your safe haven? Where everyone holds each other's hand? If you can hack it over at pirate, you run to ? Most of us are members of pirate as well. And I doubt we act much different. So you came to the wrong place for a shoulder to cry on. Grow some thicker skin and get over it.

I've got thicker skin than you'll ever have. Come spend six months underwater with me and we'll see who has thicker skin.

What is meant by this saying is this: Why do we have to constantly flame other people because they are TRYING TO LEARN by asking question. A$$HOLES like yourself use the standard line "search noob" or something like that.

Have you tried the search engines on BBs. They work, but they work like every other search engine, they bring you partial hits, and they don't prioritize the hits to the most relevant like Google or yahoo. So you sit and read through 100 posts, and might not find what you are looking for.

I don't need or want a shoulder to cry on. Don't want you to kiss my a$$, or pat me on the back and say it's all right. Don't give a fawk is you like me, or want to be my friend or even my fawking acquaintance for that matter.

JUST STOP BEING AN A$$, and read what is being said and give solid advice if you know the answer. QUIT TREATING PEOPLE WHO KNOW LESS THAN YOU, AS IF THEY ARE A LESSER PERSON FOR NOT KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW.

Oh, and by the way, I don't visit Pirate for the simple reason that most people act like fawktards, like they know it all. I have shops here who have done most of the same stuff, and I don't get treat like an imbecile for asking questions. On , I don't post much because of fawktards like you, and again, I can find out the info locally.

With that being said, go hang with your butt budies on Pirate and have fun feeling big by trying to make others feel stupid.

Thick skin, if you think you have thick skin because you can hang on Pirate, you just don't even know what thick skin is!

 

[Kittrell]

Wow, that was a ridiculous response. Feel better now?

 

[Trailbst]

Wow, that was a ridiculous response. Feel better now?

I feel the same.

I'll feel better when people stop purposely acting like a$$es towards each other.

 

[ECKSJAY]

I feel the same.

I'll feel better when people stop purposely acting like a$$es towards each other.

Go outside for a while.

 

[Trailbst]

Go outside for a while.

Going outside is actually a good idea!