Yea run a single exhaust out the back. That'll make it much quieter. If you've heard me jeep lately all it has is a 24" glasspack but with a single 3" run out the back it is not loud. Duals are allways louder.
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Yea run a single exhaust out the back. That'll make it much quieter. If you've heard me jeep lately all it has is a 24" glasspack but with a single 3" run out the back it is not loud. Duals are allways louder.
Hmm... need to get started soon, but I can't neglect school.
This weekend I must get the gas tank situation figured out and a new tie rod. I have a test on Tues, so I need all of sunday to get prepared for that.
After test on tues, I'm free for a while, except a damn wedding on the 11th. Between tuesday and friday I'd like to get the shock situation rectified. I also need to get a new yoke and fix the driveshaft.
I'd like to wheel it on the 12th at 47, but I think that's pushing for time, especially since I have the wedding that weekend.
I can probably work on it a decent amount during thanksgiving, which would probably consist of the hydroassist.
Hopefully wheel again before clayton and tie up loose ends.
Craptastic, nothing can ever be easy! Since I was gay and put the tierod on the back of the axle it's going to be hard to place the shock. Unless I was to have shock mounts about 8 inches long there's no way to angle the shock of the back towards the cab.
I'm probably going to have to make a pretty decent sized shock hoop, as there isn't alot of room to put a long shock as it sits now. The ford shock towers are kinda useless unless you can angle them back. Reason being is the steering shaft comes in at angle from the cab and close to the frame. The shock hoop will have to clear this as well. :(
Anyone have some short pieces of 1.25" tubing? I'll probably need 2 5' lengths or so. If no one has any, I might see how much carwash will charge.
you got me, carwash?
he sells tubing on pirate. Some how he gets it for a really good deal. I don't think he does big orders or long orders as he has to ship it. From what I remember his prices are pretty good. Probably easier than calling up all the yahoo's around here and then they have to order it in anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
ah, yes. i bet you can get pre-bent shock hoops for a k5.
Scrap those stupid arms and put the tie rod in the stock location on the knuckles. Its easy and it works.
Probably but I'd bet they'd be more than I can build them for and I'd most likely have to modify them. The axle is a couple inches forward from stock and they most likely would be too short.Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
Probably be less work at the moment, but probably cost more money. Shouldn't be too much more trouble then monkeying around with the ford towers. The mount on the axle will be pretty damn simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by eight
I've seen some 12" shock hoop kits for toys for like $45. They come in pieces so they're customizable. I'll find the link if you want.
Thing is if I have to modify them at all I might as well just build them myself. Unless I'm missing something they shouldn't take to long to build.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeepPhisherman
One piece of bent tubing with the ends notched and short pieces of tube welded on perpendicular to the bent piece.
That's pretty much all it is, just gives you all the pieces already cut to save time and add some bling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Krebs
http://www.tellico4x4.com/images/pro...e-btf07011.jpg
I figured $45 was worth the time it would take to fab/cut all the pieces plus the cost of the metal.
Thats the BTF kit, not the cheapest, but it's still not bad @ $60, especially if you're going to have to pay $~3/ft plus $10 shipping, which puts you at 40 without the shock mounting tabs and hardware.
Hmm doesn't look to bad, but I'm not sure it will be long enough. I'm going to have to cut inner fenders to make room for the height. I'll check it out in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeepPhisherman
I'll leave cutting the tabs out to the edm!
Now is one of those times I wish I had a pipe die...
Ok I'm not paying $4 a foot for 1.25" tubing. I'm going to call around houston and check prices, if I can't find anything decent I'll just make it out of 1.75" tubing and have a larger radius.
I found one of my long travel shocks which has a 14" travel. I know I have another one but god knows where it is. the other shock I have measures 10ish in length. I jacked up one side of the blazer until the tire was off the ground and it looks like I have about 6" of travel from ride height to full droop on one side. Looks like I need to find another long shock.