Who had March 14th?

[Hot Pocket]

Pay up sucka! You send my money yet?

went out in the mail today

[Hot Pocket]

Lifted

[JB]

Sweet. I dig

[sam_hodnett]

i like it, and i will have 3 medium pepperonis please

[stx4wheeler]

Cool, did you replace the radius arm bushings with the properly degreed ones?

[Hot Pocket]

Cool, did you replace the radius arm bushings with the properly degreed ones?

I have not, I'm still waiting on the rest of the parts to come in from JBG, so the lift isnt finished yet. That picture was taken just to get an idea of how it should look. Should I go with 4 or 7 degree bushings?

Parts on order:
Drop pitman arm
Drop Track Bar bracket
Track Bar Bushings

My shocks came in yesterday, going with the Rancho 5000 series

[Shaggy]

I have a pitman arm over at Will's house if you have not ordered it yet

[colman]

hey tate, since your bronco is now melted down somewhere into spoons or something shouldn't you take it off your signiture vehicle list

[Hot Pocket]

The rest of the parts came in today.

Let's talk exhaust. For the moment, it needs something on there, so short term I'm thinking 2.25" tubing into some cheapo oreilly mufflers, staying true duals

After I get the transmission and transfer case rebuilt, I'd like to do the exhaust right and go with some headers, then 2.25" pipe into an X-pipe, with some glasspacks.

I've heard people say that glasspacks = no backpressure, and that's not bueno for a truck that needs to make lots of low end torque, but can I compensate for the lack of backpressure by staying with 2.25" pipes and an x-pipe?

Thoughts? Oh, and I like it loud!

[breckboarder55]

Than strait pipe that bitch, or get cheap glasspacks and get all of the fiberglass out, or just a strait through muffler.

IMO loud trail rigs are annoying.

[Shaggy]

I have the 3" flowmasters from the bronco. And I still have the bronco but cut the body up so technically still have it

[BroncoJo]

The rest of the parts came in today.

Let's talk exhaust. For the moment, it needs something on there, so short term I'm thinking 2.25" tubing into some cheapo oreilly mufflers, staying true duals

After I get the transmission and transfer case rebuilt, I'd like to do the exhaust right and go with some headers, then 2.25" pipe into an X-pipe, with some glasspacks.

I've heard people say that glasspacks = no backpressure, and that's not bueno for a truck that needs to make lots of low end torque, but can I compensate for the lack of backpressure by staying with 2.25" pipes and an x-pipe?

Thoughts? Oh, and I like it loud!

More important than a x pipe or certain size pipe is making sure the exhaust is routed in a protective manner.

[stx4wheeler]

I have not, I'm still waiting on the rest of the parts to come in from JBG, so the lift isnt finished yet. That picture was taken just to get an idea of how it should look. Should I go with 4 or 7 degree bushings?

Parts on order:
Drop pitman arm
Drop Track Bar bracket
Track Bar Bushings

My shocks came in yesterday, going with the Rancho 5000 series

The recomended degree for a 4 inch lift is 4degrees, but as a whole the ford radius arm trucks like more caster so I would go with 7 degree bushings( will help the axle return to center faster). If you want it to drive really nice get a set of radius arm drop downs for the lift. They are not ideal off road, but make it drive good on road. There is a big difference in road manners between the two. If you get drop downs you won't have to get degreed bushings.

There are some other tricks to get it to drive better call me and i will give you some hints.

Now for a psa, I think you need to decide what you want the truck to be whether it is a truck like tommy's that you beat on, or a truck that could be daily driven like my blue truck. I'm cool with whatever you wanna do, but it is hard to go from beater to cruiser.

Looks good do far.

[Hot Pocket]

The recomended degree for a 4 inch lift is 4degrees, but as a whole the ford radius arm trucks like more caster so I would go with 7 degree bushings( will help the axle return to center faster). If you want it to drive really nice get a set of radius arm drop downs for the lift. They are not ideal off road, but make it drive good on road. There is a big difference in road manners between the two. If you get drop downs you won't have to get degreed bushings.

There are some other tricks to get it to drive better call me and i will give you some hints.

Now for a psa, I think you need to decide what you want the truck to be whether it is a truck like tommy's that you beat on, or a truck that could be daily driven like my blue truck. I'm cool with whatever you wanna do, but it is hard to go from beater to cruiser.

Looks good do far.

First priority is that it needs to be something that can be daily driven, but I'd like to build it so that it can do some very light wheeling. I was looking at radius arm drop down brackets, and the cheapest I can find them for is over $200, so I'll probably wind up ordering the correction bushings.

[tommy53002]

First priority is that it needs to be something that can be daily driven, but I'd like to build it so that it can do some very light wheeling. I was looking at radius arm drop down brackets, and the cheapest I can find them for is over $200, so I'll probably wind up ordering the correction bushings.

I thought you drive a jetta? Why do you need this to be a DD?