New England Mod & Meetup Thread: May 17 at Jared’s!!

I just ran out and dumped a few cans of ROLF in the Runner, figure if I add enough I can skip fluid film this year.

 

Pssssssst its the guy that tried to align your truck! Let me know when you relift it so i can try and get that camber right.

 

Am I dumb? Why do I not recognize your username? I need to rip out my coils, clean the shit out of them, then swing over to Jared to get them lifted before I can get to you, lol. What's your thoughts on how much higher I should go?

 

Lol, im not as active on here much nowadays. I'm the tech from Ira that spoke to you in the drive. I also run JBA's just with a 3.25 lift, personally I suggest you try and get back up to about a 2 inch lift up front, i know you said you weren't after a crazy amount of lift up front, but your suspension is very raked out right now, with that front bumper and rear leaf setup. Going up two inches alone will probably almost fix your camber, I run about .5 camber on my truck. typically the "3 inch lift rule" is 0 camber, 0 toe, as much caster as possible without rubbing. Either way any change to ride height will change EVERYTHING on these trucks and an alignment will be necessary.

As i mentioned you may need heavier rated springs rather then preload the shit out of what you have now, But if those coilovers still can move its worth taking a shot at cranking them up

 

So, how many more mod days we thinking before the colder weather sets in?

 

Hopefully at least 2 more

 

Sweet, good deal man. The preload on my shocks is minimal right now so I’m sure I can get up to two inches with just that. Worst case is if it does bottom out, heavier springs like you said.

 

Glad we got you remotely squared away, that would've been a miserable time alone lol.


Also, some pictures of the new crossmember courtesy @TacoTuesday603


Hopefully I don't break this one

 

Here's the two magic pictures

If anything breaks up there it will be the frame and its time for a tube buggy. Your frame up there is used and abused.

Theres 100K lbs of clamping force holding on your bumper now....

 

Is your work still an option/ is it heated? I could go for a few winter ones.

My place is an option but the barn is only relatively indoors. And one truck at a time

 

It is an option. Always down, just need a reason to host.

 

I have an entire new front end in parts, everything except for CV's, steering rack, and coilovers are going to be new. I dont think I'll have time til december, November if im lucky

 

Do you want a pair of CVs to reboot? I have a few. Think we talked about that yesterday.

Might buy that dudes junk taco…. Too much good stuff heading to the scrapyard for $600

 

Mine are fine so far, thinking why mess with it while its still working. Maybe I'll reboot a set to keep for parts.

Yeah that would be great, hows the wife feel about another car in the driveway? I might be able to keep it at my place for a few months if needed. Just gotta talk to Tiff first

 

@TacoTuesday603 $ for that cross member?
When I redo the front bumper I might want to include one.

 

I’d keep it at my shop and once I swap and gut it send it to the same scrap yard.