I just ordered a 40 for mine on 35s with 5.13s…
Edit: nevermind. I hadn’t seen the SSSYE stuff
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I just ordered a 40 for mine on 35s with 5.13s…
Edit: nevermind. I hadn’t seen the SSSYE stuff
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Congratulations on the gears! I’d think that first drive could be scary. Sounds like you are to the easy part now. Great job!
Congratulations on the gears! I’d think that first drive could be scary. Sounds like you are to the easy part now. Great job!
Thank you! Yes I was definitely nervous to hear some nasty sounds. But it feels good now. The breakin process is going to be a bit of a pain, lots and lots of seat time. But it'll be interesting to see how it feels on all the regular roads around the house
Congrats dude... Love that you got it on the road... You'll get the squirrely ness figured out...
I can remember when I swapped from 4.10 to 4.88 with mine and could finally use 5th again...
I get that thought process (I hate anyone working on my TJ) and I was all in the same way. I probably went 3-5 rounds checking suspension/alignment from tips I learned here and other forums... but a laser alignment made all the difference for me.
God speed if you can dial it in yourself! I just wanted to share my experience/advice.
Thanks!! Yeah it is a huge difference. I didn't think to put it in 4lo and see how it creeps in first. But yeah it'll be cool to get to the highway portion and see how that is. No more going 85-90 down the highway to Moab anymore I bet though
Yeah I appreciate the input!! I just really want to be able to do it myself, lol. And I doubt I could find anyone trustworthy to do it - and even then they'd be almost an hour away. So makes it hard to even think about doing it.
Now that I think about it, since all 8 control arms are new now it is highly likely I have at least some of them at the wrong length
Take it easy til you get those gears broke in...
DAMN who goes 85-90 in a TJ??? I can't say I ever have...
The speed limit on i70 is 85 once you hit the Utah state line! I ain't no sissy trying to go under the speed limit if I could help it!! Yours will probably do that speed easy now
I was lucky that the local stealership was only 30 min from me —- but that that was 30 min of white knuckle driving telling myself 'stay in the lines and don't let the rear come around us...'
I'm luck to have that local option — I wouldn't trust any regular shop - it would take a shop who understand and works on modified vehicles with adjustable arms.
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I encourage you to try to dial it in!
In parallel, I also encourage you to look around for shops outside the Jeep world who would understand what you'd bring... [As a backup — because I know I wanted to do it myself so bad — and couldn't...]
Anyone over 33s — Crazy...
Having lived on 33s — been there done that... Gotta get where you gotta go...
Tape measure axle to axle on both sides.thrust way off?
Add lots of caster.
Front lowers same length? Rear? Make uppers same tension .
Find a place that will give a free alignment check and hand you the printout if you need ideas.
Well on my Harley I do 85-120 MPH no problem... In my Jeep??? Even if it CAN do it I have no desire... Even when I was doing the WOT runs for the tuning I was backing out of it @ around 80 MPH and I wasn't there long..
In my motorhome, I set the cruise @ 65MPH and just let people pass me. It's only getting 10 MPG & if I bump it up to 70 MPH I lose 2 MPG. Don't need to get there any quicker...
Anyone over 33s — Crazy...
Having lived on 33s — been there done that... Gotta get where you gotta go...
I used to drive mine @ 70-75 MPH on 35's but that was when it was my DD... And yes my 4 angry squirrels would do it too.. But on 38's? I don't need to get there that fast.
I tried to break 100 in mine once. Wouldn’t do it. 98 or 99. Felt like it was governed. Completely solid though. Didn’t feel sketchy at all.
Edit: on 35s
I guess once I get my daughters TJ fixed I might try it in hers. Not sure I want to try it in mine. I was crazy enough to do 100 + MPH in a 70's Chevy van on the Autobahn once...
Yeah I think it is something to do with arm lengths, thrust angle or maybe just an axle not squared off well. It doesn't feel like the steering is wandering, or a dead spot, more like it's pushing me one way or another and I have to correct it. IDK. Hard to describe lol. I've driven it with a bit of toe-out before and it doesn't feel like that
Aw yeah this is cool. Stroker power. Love hearing this in contrast to all the people that think a TJ isn't even highway worthy
Awesome, that is easy enough to fix. Guess I'll get to see how much easier the DA arms make this
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