Recent content by DesertGoat

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Got the frame kick + link mounts all braced up & weldered. Acquired a new (used) fuel cell, made it a tray, mocked it up & started slingin' tubes. Getting shocks ordered today & also looking forward to mounting up the bedsides so I can figure out the behind-the-axle portion of this frame.

you gonna make like a skid plate blister so you don't drag the bottom of the t-case ?

people like complaining (myself included) so you're usually going to see more negative feedback than positive. That's just the way it goes it seems. I've been trying to make it a point to give small businesses more flowers online when I have good experiences. Especially in the offroad industry...

that's a damn shame. Ruffstuff used to be one of my favorite shops for fab parts - i do sincerely hope they turn it around. another demerit, I had to do a chargeback against McQueen Fiberglass for similar "called & no replies" story. I'll share more of that if folks want to hear the whole thing...

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...