THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[mini=man]

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No the front will stay a bare axle with no brackets or mounts until I'm ready to take the Jeep down for a while. I'll set it all up when its under there. What I was saying (after my first post) is that I'll have the brackets ready to be mocked up so there isnt any time spent trying to make them from scratch or waiting for them to come in.

 

[RCman]

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Holy crap I sound like Bill. Someone shut me the hell up.

:moon: :moon: :moon:

 

[mini=man]

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And I was thinking about somthing like this for the link set up to clear the tires because of the low BS of the H1's http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11787526&postcount=40 Even if that means I have to run a 4 link

 

[cmelo]

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Keith wants to build a fancier link setup than anyone else here. Build it in less than a week. Then slap on some cheap rims with shitty tires.

 

[MoparManiac]

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I don't get why that means you have to build a 4-link...?

I'm pretty confident I could fit Bill's wheel/tires with my link setup.

 

[XJLI]

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all this complication on custom setups makes me happier i'm buying a (the) kit.

 

[MoparManiac]

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In all honesty, building the 3-link was stupid easy.

I don't know why people overcomplicate it.

 

[mini=man]

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I don't get why that means you have to build a 4-link...?

I'm pretty confident I could fit Bill's wheel/tires with my link setup.

I hav't played with the link calculator so I don't know what kind of numbers would turn out with the frame side links inboarded so far.

In all honesty, my link set up will probably end up being eyeballed, tacked on, cycled, and repeated untill it clears everything and goes up and down the way it needs to.

 

[kastein]

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My money is on Ken...he's a safe bet.

I have to agree. I'll leave before you guys so at least I get a running start :moon:

... well, a walking start anyways.

If the damn M54A2 breaks down too badly I am posting it up for sale on the military vehicles forum I'm on, unloading the XJ, and continuing on to rausch.

I'll make a kit. I require a rust free '92 MJ short bed and a built 440.
I will then give you everything you need to drop a 440 into your engine bay after I complete the "design and testing" phase. You will not be getting the testing parts back.

I'll do the same, but I will give the 440 back afterwards a much better deal.

Question of the day:

Should this be the year that Mark finally joins a local offroad club again?

yes

http://forum.undergroundjeeps.net

yes

Looking around it's about $150.

Lame.

Maybe I can find something on NEOW when the time comes. I want to keep the stock pump for reliability/simplicity.

if you're thinking the stock MJ pump you have, remember it's for TBI and puts out like 14psi. You need the MPFI pump.

Hey Ken, do you have a 20+" monitor that you aren't using? I want a new monitor for work.

I wish. I have 3 18s, all scratched in some manner, and 4 or 5 15s, some scratched and some requiring extended warmup before the backlights function correctly.

 

[MoparManiac]

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I hav't played with the link calculator so I don't know what kind of numbers would turn out with the frame side links inboarded so far.

In all honesty, my link set up will probably end up being eyeballed, tacked on, cycled, and repeated untill it clears everything and goes up and down the way it needs to.

You probably haven't read my build thread in a while, but Chris discussed it won't matter much with the angle my arms are at (~22*).

Here:

 

[ktm racer 419]

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to build a 3 link:

figure out where you can fit your link mounts

measure some shit and put it in a calculator

move links around a little bit here and there until you have a sweet antisquat %

brag to your friends about your awesome antisquats

weld some mounts where yo sweet percents were

wheel

 

[mini=man]

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You probably haven't read my build thread in a while, but Chris discussed it won't matter much with the angle my arms are at (~22*).

Nope, truth is I look at the last page of all you guys' build thread to see how close it is to being done and then move on. I want the link mounts to be on the frame. But now that I think of it, I'll have issues trying to inboard them for tire clearance with them on the frame. I pretty much just dont want them on the cross member only because if I build it while I still have a 231, I'm going to keep using my Rusty's cross member. So that in itself wouldnt make since to build link mounts on. And I do have hig hopes of upgrading to either an atlas or flipped 300 so a new cross member will be made for more belly clearance and mounting.

 

[MoparManiac]

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You're going to have problems with the link mounts being on the frame and having clearance for your tires especially with H1s.

Here's an idea of full lock driver with H2s and 40s.

 

[MoparManiac]

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You might be able to get away with 37-38s and running a setup similar to Sam's except inboard the LCA mounts.

 

[mini=man]

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Yeah I'm worried about the tire clearance because of my wheel choice and how I want them on the frame. I think I'm going to have to have a bend in the arms like so http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11786685&postcount=13

 

[kastein]

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I'm going to build a 4 link so triangulated that the lower control arms mount to opposite frame rails.

I will be the mostest awesomest jeep at every truck show ever.

 

[MoparManiac]

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Yeah I'm worried about the tire clearance because of my wheel choice and how I want them on the frame. I think I'm going to have to have a bend in the arms like so http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11786685&postcount=13

Why are you so against building a crossmember?

If you do a flipped D300 or an atlas, it doesn't change the transmission mount.

If you clock up the t-case as high as I did, you also lose downtravel. I almost regret clocking mine up as high as I did.

 

[mini=man]

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I'm not totally against building one yet. But so far I can't get past the idea of mounting suspension components to the same thing that holds my transmission and t-case in place. something about that just doesnt sit right with me and steers me away from it.

 

[MoparManiac]

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:laugh:

Well whichever you do, it's going to be tough to put it all together in a short time frame. It's hard to build things in advance when you don't know certain variables (control arm angles, tire distance to LCAs at full lock, where full bump is, etc.)

Things build off of each other as you take measurements, mock up, re-measure, re-mock up, fuck up, re-measure again, etc.

You get the picture

 

[kastein]

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Definitely just figured out what was screwing up some debugging tools we had, which resulted in us figuring out a bug that's plagued us for weeks in 45 minutes. Ohhhhh yeah!

Someone typo'd a 1 instead of a 2 in an XML file and it resulted in the debug tool completely hosing all the data in a part of the processor instead of dumping it out for debugging.