Recent content by DialedShockPrep

That all makes way more sense now! Haha CookCraft did just finish up a green explorer with Dana 35 beams and 44 knuckles, with crossover steering and i believe it had a ram assist. I will see if i can get any photos of his setup. I also recall him saying that the Dana 44 knuckles have the tie...

Out of shear curiosity and for simplicity sake, why not just purchase something like the Ohcho Fab TTB dual swingers setup with crossmember? Maybe i am confused but i dont see why you shouldn’t be able to utilize a F150/Bronco Dana 44 steering kit since that is essentially what you have up...

Clifford was one of my good buddies 96 F150 4x4, cut and turn stock width beams, and somewhere between short course and traditional link styles. I could also argue that this truck brought the whole “Short course link” thing alive since there really wasn’t a happy medium between spring under and...

Simply put, you can’t really beat the additional surface area of a larger piston. Sure TWO pistons is good, but I’d still rather have one larger piston over two “smaller” pistons. I’ve setup TTB trucks with basically every setup you can think of from 2.0” coilovers and 2.5” bypasses to 3.0”s...

If it’s factory valving, it’s a #90 on compression with the largest shim tripled, and the next size down doubled. Rebound is a #50 stack

What is the application?

Airbags typically ride really nice, and aren’t stiff or harsh. Hydraulics on the other hand are usually very stiff and are typically what you see on cars bouncing down the road. Those too can ride really nicely with the use of accumulators in the system but not everyone runs large ones, most run...

Most people with cooling issues derived from a lack of shrouding, and less from the actual size of the cooler. Factory vehicles have a massive sheetmetal wall in the front of the car that blocks all airflow around the radiator, with an opening in front of the radiator for air to pass through the...

Juberas truck is a unicorn that somehow magically eat moon bumps like they are mall speed bumps, definitely don’t base your build and decision making for one small section of a very specific race course haha. In reality, he has just the right wheelbase, rear chassis weight, up travel...

The main points of beams have been hit on already but I’ll provide some feedback on the kingpin stuff. Kingpins got a bad reputation in the 1450 hay days because a lot of guys went to billet beams and just ran a simple bolt to locate/lock the kingpin from spinning. There is a problem with that...

It’s not the 5” but it’s similar to what I have on my 66 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/778377705064722/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Basically what everyone said above. you NEED leverage on these shocks for them to work properly on a higher speed application and for spring rate purposes. Those two literally go hand in hand with eachother because the leverage allows you to run high enough spring rates to actually push the...

I am probably not helping at all here, but have you considered having the wheels stripped and polished? Or maybe even having OMF convert them to beadlocks or simulated beadlocks? Those are cool wheels but i do agree that the coating on them makes them look cheap. For one of my builds i sourced...

Those shock shafts are pitted/corroded, you can replace the shafts or hit them with a razor blade to knock the flakes off, use a small, fine file to deburr them, and wet sand/polish theme stuff out with some 1000-1,500 grit sand paper to make them less likely to tear seals. Those leaf springs...

This is in an explorer, i can’t remember who’s though