Recent content by BAC478

I guess I don't entirely follow you. From what I understand the upper control mounts aren't really a big deal because they mount farther in. So even if I did a driver side upper it would mount to the top of the diff anyway. Driver or passenger upper shouldn't really make any difference in...

UPDATE: The price of the axles is now just the cost of 5.13 gears for a 2002 F-350 (same axles) Randy's lists $315 front and $238 rear. Any place to get them cheaper?

I think I am going to take them. I am pretty sure I can figure something out for brackets on the driver side similar to the link foxwar posted. I have a lot of reading to do now... BTW I have a Clayton 8" long arm kit that will be going in. Rear is still leafs but that could change.

I have an opportunity to get a set of axles out of a 2003 F-350 super duty 6.0 diesel from a friend for cheap ($400 or less for both). So that would include a front high pinion, ball joint, unit bearing, 8x170 metric pattern dana 60 and a rear sterling 10.5 with discs and matching 8x170...

Depending on how much clearance you have and how much articulation you can get out of the suspension you might consider just putting some bumpstops in to prevent rubbing. I have a lot more lift and I can still rub pretty easily. If you are satisfied with your articulation just throw in some...

There are tons of posts on here covering pretty much anything you need to know about long arms. You could actually make an entire design based on the info available. With that said... What do you mean by rears? are you going coil rear or do you just mean the back connection point for the...

Me and my buddy take our bikes down main street in Holyoke and set off car alarms with the exhaust. Its great when the slammed 90's accord wagons with hub caps and windshield sprayer lights start going off...welfare money hard at work. But hey at least the cars safe...

I live with a kid that grew up in CA and he says the same thing, always complaining about how we drive around here.... Didnt know that the inspectors were liable for the fine. Just cuz the owner I talked to made it sound like he got hit with the fine instead. Makes more sense that the actual...

Ya I live a little farther down on Rt. 9 (Belchertown Road) near maplewood farm. I know the guy Jay at Firestone through a friend. Hes the one that told me about the Oct. 1st stuff and said he would have passed it in a heartbeat but he already got screwed cuz of the cameras or something. I...

Ya called up the guy at endangered and asked him where they go. When I told him it was an XJ with 8" lift he was like I have no idea where you are gonna get that inspected.

Amherst/Hadley area and still had problems. I know a bunch of people that could have helped me out but said their hands were tied since the new inspection rules Oct. 1st. Never really thought it was going to be such a pain in the ass.

After about 4 weeks of being told to go home as soon as I pulled into to any inspection station I finally got the jeep a fresh MA inspection sticker. Ended up going back to stock tires and buying 4.5" coils and making the smallest shackles I could fit (with work materials and on the clock ;))...

I am running shims on the leafs but they are small. They were the ones that came with the clayton kit and are just enough so that the axle pinion is parallel with the driveshaft like it should be for a CV. I cut and rewelded the lower shock brackets to compensate for the axle rotation. The...

The jeep has an 8" lift and the shocks are the 12" version. I called up Clayton when I ordered the lift and asked what the recommended and they said about 12" at all 4 corners. There is plenty of travel in and out when the jeep is sitting level. Thats what I thought the problem might be too...

The other night I was doing some really light wheeling up to a fire in the woods. Somwhere along the line I broke the top eyelet off my rear passenger shock. It was a Bilstein 5150 and it failed at the threaded connection between the eyelet and the shock body. It seems strange to me that it...