clean4drxj
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whats wrong with rock krawler or clayton? bot of them are good companies and make a true 3link setup. IRO's is not a true 3 link, save the money and buy it once!
called it a 3-link, I guess so people would compare it to a real hardcore-style 3 link.
Has anyone actually had the caster adjustment break? I have had my system for almost a year and now problems....i think alot of people just haven't seen this kit in person....the parts are BEEFY!
Did it happen while going over a log or was it in a sticky situation?yea, that kinda bugs me a bit. 3 links are all the rage nowadays, and most people see "3 link" and automatically think its awesome.
or they just don't know what they are selling.
such as with their "almost alloy kit" they say it will work with dana 30's and 44's with 5-760x u joints.
They clearly have never installed a set in a real dana 44. There is no room for anything else on top of the u joint caps If you expect it to fit through the opening in the knuckle.
seen it in person, I lol every time.
Did it happen while going over a log or was it in a sticky situation?
No, ive seen the kits in person on primarily street rigs. Thankfully nobody I wheel with runs them.
Well as long as you dont plan on wheeling The Rubicon or Fordyce or better yet just stay out of the Sierra Nevadas altogether ,we will be just fine. Our kiddie trails might be too easy for your rig. Wouldn't want to have to share a trail with anyone that doesnt runNo, ive seen the kits in person on primarily street rigs. Thankfully nobody I wheel with runs them.
Well as long as you dont plan on wheeling The Rubicon or Fordyce or better yet just stay out of the Sierra Nevadas altogether ,we will be just fine. Our kiddie trails might be too easy for your rig. Wouldn't want to have to share a trail with anyone that doesnt run
aprooved by you products. Who apppointed you the God of Wheeling ? You should get off your high horse. I would never tell a fellow entusist that I am too good to wheel with them or that unless you run xyz product or if you run xyz your not good enough. Thats nonsense .
Well as long as you dont plan on wheeling The Rubicon or Fordyce or better yet just stay out of the Sierra Nevadas altogether ,we will be just fine. Our kiddie trails might be too easy for your rig. Wouldn't want to have to share a trail with anyone that doesnt run
aprooved by you products. Who apppointed you the God of Wheeling ? You should get off your high horse. I would never tell a fellow entusist that I am too good to wheel with them or that unless you run xyz product or if you run xyz your not good enough. Thats nonsense .
sarcasm doesnt go over too well on the left coast, huh?
don't lump us in with the norcal folk.sarcasm doesnt go over too well on the left coast, huh?
And honestly I really don't like wheeling with rigs that are underbuilt for certain trails, trail progress is slow, and can turn a day of wheeling into a day of sitting around helping people fix their rigs. Which can be fine just hanging out with some cool people, but when I drive 6 hours one way to wheel, I'm not always a happy camper if im busy helping people fix their rigs and help them limp back to civilization for half the trip.
Honestly, it all comes down to how much you want/can spend.
For all you east coast nay-sayers I say come on out west and run fordyce and or the Dusy Ershim trail with your it's better because it costs more suspensions and then tell me again how the IRO kit is too weak for any real trails. Preach how there's no way it can work with no real world experience with it. It flat works and you'd be hard pressed to find better for the price. 2 examples of bent caster adjusters doesn't mean a whole lot, I snapped the sector shaft of my steering box, does that mean Saginaw boxes are faulty and too weak for wheeling?
Precisely. It's not about the parts you run, it's about the trails you're on with those parts. If you run stuff when you have a good chance of breaking, you just put the burden on everyone else in the group.
On a trip 2 weeks ago, a XJ guy was wheeling in our group because he was in our club, even though he had a much smaller build than everyone. I'm talking low lift, smaller tires and I'm not even sure he had lockers. Needless to say, he'd try to follow us through every really hard trail, stuff that I had trouble getting through on 35's with dual lockers. First day, he took a really bad line and put the jeep on it's side, almost on it's roof (good thing his son and dad had gotten out). Took us almost 2 hours to recover it and get him running and off the trail.
The second day, we were going up a steep, slippery, trail with a few technical rocks and he let his dad drive, who hardly has any experience. Whenever he couldn't make it over a rock, he just went full throttle and had the XJ pretty much bouncing completely off the ground. Ended up setting his front wheel at 45* camber half way up the trail. Broke both balljoints and the axleshaft. Had to replace it all on a crazy steep hill and it took over 3 hours. They basically killed half of our weekend wheeling time because everyone was nice and stayed with them (and helped) while everything was fixed.
Not that I'm going to explicitly not wheel with someone or tell them not to go up a trail, but don't expect me to be all happy and chummy with you after you kill half a wheeling trip.
I don't think that's the case. Greatwhitejeep obviously has money to spend on quality parts like RCV's and the like, so I have no idea why he wouldn't pony up a bit more coin for a good longarm setup. It's cheaper, so they obviously have to sacrifice something compared to all the nicer kits.