Your coil issue is simply fixed with captured base and upper pigtail catcher and limit strap with sensible droop and a couple inches of unseating allowed...on the unseating note you obviouly do not need a foot of gap , but if you limit to keep completely seated you will have only...4...inches of droop since a typical 180lb rate coil on a 700lb sprung corner weight xj only yields 4 inches of compressed coil for droop...and you are unloaded at thay as well since coil is now completely un compressed so figure less than 4 inches with the goal of not unloading the coil ...that is the Math so the goal of low lift big tires and limiting to stay loaded is kind of put into reality and to have fair travel the compromise needs to be made unless going struts or coilovers.
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Your coil issue is simply fixed with captured base and upper pigtail catcher and limit strap with sensible droop and a couple inches of unseating allowed...on the unseating note you obviouly do not need a foot of gap , but if you limit to keep completely seated you will have only...4...inches of droop since a typical 180lb rate coil on a 700lb sprung corner weight xj only yields 4 inches of compressed coil for droop...and you are unloaded at thay as well since coil is now completely un compressed so figure less than 4 inches with the goal of not unloading the coil ...that is the Math so the goal of low lift big tires and limiting to stay loaded is kind of put into reality and to have fair travel the compromise needs to be made unless going struts or coilovers.
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- San Diego
????? Also curious
ROKRWLR
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- Arvada, CO
Bummer! It turned out great, and you made it through Carnage with your body in tact!.
Are you planning to build something different (Buggyish)?
Are you planning to build something different (Buggyish)?
offroadman83
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- Edinburg Texas
Major bummer...hate to see that jeep torn apart
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trippled
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- Location
- colorado springs, co
What's the new project? You can't leave us hanging like that
Boostwerks.com
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- Colorado
ROKRWLR
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- Arvada, CO
I think Carnage is just bad luck for people.... The last 3 people that I know of running it are now selling their rigs! A red dirt riot race truck wrangler that ran it with us is on CL, a blue bronco ran it the day before us is on CL, and now you.
Maybe everyone just builds buggies after running it.
Maybe everyone just builds buggies after running it.
ROKRWLR
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- Arvada, CO
Question about the build.....
I may have missed it, but I'm sure you re-geared your axles. Did you use 10.25 or 10.5 ring and pinion gears (rear)?
I'm about to do my 05 rear now and seem to find lots of 10.25 5:13 sets. Lots of gears listed 10.5 & 10.25 are the 10.25 set. I don't know if I'm seeing ant true 10.5 5:13s.
I may have missed it, but I'm sure you re-geared your axles. Did you use 10.25 or 10.5 ring and pinion gears (rear)?
I'm about to do my 05 rear now and seem to find lots of 10.25 5:13 sets. Lots of gears listed 10.5 & 10.25 are the 10.25 set. I don't know if I'm seeing ant true 10.5 5:13s.
Honestly carnage had nothing to do with it. If anything it reinforces my confidence in building a good rig. Was there some shortcomings? Sure. But it's a full body with a few scuffs in the paint that did pretty damn well.
It is entirely a friend of mines fault for showing me shit and making me spend money on new projects. Had THAT not happened. This rig would be getting more armor and a doubler.
It is entirely a friend of mines fault for showing me shit and making me spend money on new projects. Had THAT not happened. This rig would be getting more armor and a doubler.
freerider15
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- FoCo, Crawlorado
ROKRWLR
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- Arvada, CO
I'm fully keeping mine
Would yours be up for an Indy run on the 24th?
Not after my Carnage run earlier this year :gee: I'm out of trails until next spring.
Yet again, the day 2 Carnage run of the STF event took it's toll. Seized a crank bearing in the notch and had to get drug out again! Now I'm in the middle of a 4.8 LS, 4L80e, and 241 swap. No sense in rebuilding a 4.0, right? Plus I picked up a sterling 10.5 today to better match the wide SD front axle swap that was the result of last year's event. After all of this, I think I'm just about out of Jeep parts on my rig!
I'm not selling either, but damn, Carnage costs me LOTS of money! I swear I'm going to survive that damn trail next year.
Count me in for any trails next spring though.
Look for a built FF60 soon in the classifieds very soon.
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- sacramento
Im liking the rig. I reccomend against spools. Detroits or grizzlys. I hate true tracs in a crawler. They are worthless
