Jeep WJ: Iron Rock Off Road 6. 5 Lift The Rear
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Date: 2020-08-05
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DARANGULAFILM
Do the raise kits also include some sort of drop limiter arrangement to always hold the springs in constant compression? Or is it just a faithbased thing of trusting the shock absorbers to stop axle drop short of letting the springs tear their clamps open and fly out. Old Landrovers had a rather primitive arrangement, a half loop of rubber/canvas belt under the axle tube on each side, retained to the frame with bolts through the rubber/canvas and metal cap strips. My understanding it that it was intended to discourage the vehicle from rockinghorsing from one diagonally opposite wheel to the other and a tendency to rear backwards onto a soft unloaded hanging spring on a steep cross slope. I don't think it did much. Old Landrovers cut a rockinghorse wave into soft sandy tracks soon enough after several passes but they did not seem to want to pitchpole over diagonally backwards on a steep cross slope. A hanging rear wheel would when the vehicle pitched back, touch down with the spring already firm. The leaf springs and their more limited movement helped a lot. The holes in the rubber/canvas strips would tear through and let go soon enough and the ride on fast dirt roads with occasional high backbones across them became more comfortable with the straps broken. On a heave over a ridge on a fast dirt road, the mass of the rear axle/diff hitting the straps would snatch the rear down and whiplash your neck. By the end of a day you felt like you had been shaken to bits. I don't remember people being very diligent and replacing them.
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Do the raise kits also include some sort of drop limiter arrangement to always hold the springs in constant compression? Or is it just a faithbased thing of trusting the shock absorbers to stop axle drop short of letting the springs tear their clamps open and fly out. Old Landrovers had a rather primitive arrangement, a half loop of rubber/canvas belt under the axle tube on each side, retained to the frame with bolts through the rubber/canvas and metal cap strips. My understanding it that it was intended to discourage the vehicle from rockinghorsing from one diagonally opposite wheel to the other and a tendency to rear backwards onto a soft unloaded hanging spring on a steep cross slope. I don't think it did much. Old Landrovers cut a rockinghorse wave into soft sandy tracks soon enough after several passes but they did not seem to want to pitchpole over diagonally backwards on a steep cross slope. A hanging rear wheel would when the vehicle pitched back, touch down with the spring already firm. The leaf springs and their more limited movement helped a lot. The holes in the rubber/canvas strips would tear through and let go soon enough and the ride on fast dirt roads with occasional high backbones across them became more comfortable with the straps broken. On a heave over a ridge on a fast dirt road, the mass of the rear axle/diff hitting the straps would snatch the rear down and whiplash your neck. By the end of a day you felt like you had been shaken to bits. I don't remember people being very diligent and replacing them.
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Kevin
Hot rod Jeep, oh yeah, lol. I remember a guy borrowed my brother-in-law's Lincoln Continental. Don't know what happened but the airbags were froze in their highest position and looked like your Jeep, lol. Really nice job, Eric. I have a special liking to Jeeps as well. I drove a Jeep for my LT. in the Army. I lived on the same floor as the mechanics and when I did the floor I'd do the whole floor so they wouldn't have to worry about it and got to know them really well. I never put a drop of oil or gas in it, never even opened the hood because they used my Jeep as their toy to go out and beat on and then fix again. I'd go up to get the Jeep and there would be a whole line of people waiting to sign out their vehicles, they'd see me throw me the keys and I'd be on my way. One time My 1st Sgt. told me to follow him out to the field in an APC, (armored personnel carrier for those not familiar. I'd never drove one before. I didn't tell him that, so I just got in the seat, started the engine, saw the shifter and put in drive and just steered with the sticks. I was surprised how easy it was and how smooth it was driving it. A lot different from riding in the back. Saw a sign that said 30 MPH, looked down and we were doing 60. Thanks for taking us on another of your adventures. Greatly appreciated.
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Hot rod Jeep, oh yeah, lol. I remember a guy borrowed my brother-in-law's Lincoln Continental. Don't know what happened but the airbags were froze in their highest position and looked like your Jeep, lol. Really nice job, Eric. I have a special liking to Jeeps as well. I drove a Jeep for my LT. in the Army. I lived on the same floor as the mechanics and when I did the floor I'd do the whole floor so they wouldn't have to worry about it and got to know them really well. I never put a drop of oil or gas in it, never even opened the hood because they used my Jeep as their toy to go out and beat on and then fix again. I'd go up to get the Jeep and there would be a whole line of people waiting to sign out their vehicles, they'd see me throw me the keys and I'd be on my way. One time My 1st Sgt. told me to follow him out to the field in an APC, (armored personnel carrier for those not familiar. I'd never drove one before. I didn't tell him that, so I just got in the seat, started the engine, saw the shifter and put in drive and just steered with the sticks. I was surprised how easy it was and how smooth it was driving it. A lot different from riding in the back. Saw a sign that said 30 MPH, looked down and we were doing 60. Thanks for taking us on another of your adventures. Greatly appreciated.
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James
Coming along great, one thing I found is that your shock boots need to facing downwards so that water can't get in and sit on the seals where the piston slides in. Another thing I did was replace the factory upper shock bolts because they taper down and cause a rattling sound over bumps. I think I used m12x. 75 because the shank doesn't taper down but I can't remember. It's on my build page WJ Overland Build.
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Coming along great, one thing I found is that your shock boots need to facing downwards so that water can't get in and sit on the seals where the piston slides in. Another thing I did was replace the factory upper shock bolts because they taper down and cause a rattling sound over bumps. I think I used m12x. 75 because the shank doesn't taper down but I can't remember. It's on my build page WJ Overland Build.
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autos
You have been my go to guru for sometime now I never gave the hat any thought. I've been a machinist for 34 years and a jeep guy even longer. I spent a lot of years building jeeps for other people and when I left the machine shop I went to work for 4wheel parts. So I had a feeling you where ok despite the accent.
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You have been my go to guru for sometime now I never gave the hat any thought. I've been a machinist for 34 years and a jeep guy even longer. I spent a lot of years building jeeps for other people and when I left the machine shop I went to work for 4wheel parts. So I had a feeling you where ok despite the accent.
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Jim
I saw a machinist take a set of allen wrenches, and cut approximately 1 off each one with a power metal saw so that he could use a socket and ratchet to run them down and tighten them. I thought it was an excellent idea. Of course, most of the allen wrenches were fairly large, but not all of them.
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I saw a machinist take a set of allen wrenches, and cut approximately 1 off each one with a power metal saw so that he could use a socket and ratchet to run them down and tighten them. I thought it was an excellent idea. Of course, most of the allen wrenches were fairly large, but not all of them.
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Peter
It looks like the sort of hot rod that kids did in the early 1970s: their grammas Buick with the ss-end way up in the air but they were too cheap to put bigger tires on t.
Loved the line about never-seize - it DOES really get danged near everywhere.
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It looks like the sort of hot rod that kids did in the early 1970s: their grammas Buick with the ss-end way up in the air but they were too cheap to put bigger tires on t.
Loved the line about never-seize - it DOES really get danged near everywhere.
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Russ
People install half A lift kit all the time here in N. C except they do it to the front and leave the ass end squatting. It makes the truck look like it's trying to take A shit.
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People install half A lift kit all the time here in N. C except they do it to the front and leave the ass end squatting. It makes the truck look like it's trying to take A shit.
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James
You should of loctite the alen bolts in the bushings. I have had them come apart before. So next time please use some red or blue if u don't have the red loctite. They wil
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You should of loctite the alen bolts in the bushings. I have had them come apart before. So next time please use some red or blue if u don't have the red loctite. They wil
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Nathan
I have a 98 GC with little rust like this, though the WJ's interior is a bit cleaner. Dead trans but I feel better about fixing this now.
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I have a 98 GC with little rust like this, though the WJ's interior is a bit cleaner. Dead trans but I feel better about fixing this now.
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Gonads1259
Yep, ali-mini-um as we say in the UK! Very informative watching these vids. thanks for the info and explanation of the work you do.
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Yep, ali-mini-um as we say in the UK! Very informative watching these vids. thanks for the info and explanation of the work you do.
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