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    Obs f150 swing steer questions

    You have high angle misalignment spacers on the heims at the swingers, get regular bearing reducers with a narrower spread and you’ll be able to make the swingers narrower
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    Local Legend Don't Call It An S10

    this might help you out with packaging as well, but on my truck and Marcels, and a handful of others, the link that connects the pitman arm/box to the system is tied to the centerlink between the swingers. This helps with packaging and as long as you run wobble stops over the spacers it’s fine...
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    Local Legend Don't Call It An S10

    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...
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    Local Legend Don't Call It An S10

    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...
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    Single 3.0 Coilover vs Dual 2.5's

    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...
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    Single 3.0 Coilover vs Dual 2.5's

    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...
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    Raptor 2.5 valveing?

    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
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    Raptor 2.5 valveing?

    What is the application?
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    Bagged Colorado

    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...
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    88’ Raingutter Ranger

    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...
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    Local Legend Mai-Tai-Yota

    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...
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    School me on beams

    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...
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    Local Legend High School 04 Ranger build (new update pics)

    Just to add to this, a few of my buddies that have/had A arm rangers with the factory racks still noticed a pretty significant increase in life once they strapped the front ends a bit shorter. We concluded that the racks break from the tie rods having more extreme angles at droop applying...
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    F100 Autofab kit wanted

    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
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    school me on short course setups

    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...
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