Recent content by DesertGoat

good luck dude!

Ended up re-doing the rear frame kick from all plate after some of my fellow polygoat old heads talked me through their ideas. For the dorks - doing this design gave me ~3.5" per side of extra width on the upper link mounts, which from my quick math should be ~30% reducton in link load. So...

I've been planning Baja trips for my friend group for a ~decade now and it's probably my favorite place on the planet. One of my favorite things is taking people down who started out scared of Baja for various reasons and seeing their expression & attitude change over the course of the trip...

I use this stuff: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/crown-psc-1000-parts-cleaner-5-gal-3893915

yeah, i've been using that. The calculator is mostly awesome - it unfortunately doesn't give you a basis of what works and what does not, though. So i'm hoping a data log of other people's setups will help people figure out what to shoot for in that calculator. and aside from that, the...

I'm currently wrestling with decision making on my truck - wondering if my link spacing on my frame is too narrow. It looks fine to me and a few dudes but a few others are suggesting that it looks wrong. Something that I think would help me & a lot of other folks may be to crowd-source a set of...

Welded up all the link pivots, got them tacked up on the frame. A local friend is pointing out that he thinks the upper link spread is pretty narrow. I'll have to go look back at the loads from the 4-link calculator and see if it's concerning enough to re-do that frame segment to make it wider.

That's how my last truck drove and it was definitely fun, but a handful to drive. On this truck I'm targettig a higher anti squat number to aim for maximum ride predictability. Or to say it another way: the only thing that will consume my rear up-travel are bumps. But Tommy's comment had me...

the advice I got was to target near 100% anti-squat. This location gives me that figure. lowering this mount like you're suggesting would lower my anti-squat significantly. I'm constrained by the upper link frame-side mount locations. The lower just has to kinda be what it's gonna be.

Had a local homie weld up the Taco Bell Tommy Trailing arms for me to help parallel path some progress while I was starting a new job & whatnot. Got them back, ran through some 4-link calcs with the frame situation i've got. Tacked up the camburg mounts to the axle & drew up some lower link...

Been in a bit of a holding pattern waiting for parts to show up. So I pivoted from the back half over to figuring out a bumper + skid. I wanted to reuse the original 1974 bumper that the truck originally had. So when I chopped the front frame off years ago I had saved myself a little 6" section...

ho' fo' sho. I left everything tacked just in case I got the height wrong when cycling happens. My trailing arms are being fabricated by a 3rd party so I'm waiting on those to show up to get everything finalized with the method you described. for this height I did this: - with the factory...

I wanted a wagon so bad. But the most affordable one I could find was +$10k than this sedan, had +30k miles, had an accident & a check engine light. They're bananas expensive but also so damn cool. really wish I was able to make it happen but oh well. This sedan is badass too. It had some...

Started on the back half of the truck. Chopped the frame off. my original plan was to reuse the OEM frame since it was like ~1/4" thick and a 8" tall c section & perfectly flat. But after rigging it up and floating it to where I would need it to get ~11 inches of uptravel, I decided that I...

just cause the plans are available doesn't make them good. But you also don't have to trust anyone else's opinions (mine included). So I'm just saying that the internal reinforcing structures are oriented 90 degrees from the direction where I'd want them to resist the bending loads. They...