Recent content by Kellyex1450

The longer the links (within reason) the smoother the ride, ODR wisdom. looks at the old "ME" truck that things links were measured in yards.

That’s a valid concern. My plan is to make the washer small enough that it’ll contact the factory rubber bushing during articulation, and I’m hoping the rubber will just compress without noticeably affecting flex. Luckily, there’s a spot right down the street from me where I can test it as soon...

I might get around to it eventually. The plan is a bronze washer-bushing sandwiched between the crush sleeve and the mount on both sides — basically filling the gap left after grinding down the serrated ends. The truth is, this whole thing is just the cheapest, laziest way I could come up...

Pissnoma R&D department notes: The assembly line puts the leaf springs on before the gas tanks go in. I didn’t want to know this. I never set out to know this. Yet somehow, through the cursed process of wrenching and “simple deductive reasoning,” my brain has been permanently branded with this...

Here is a picture of my DIY long travel leaf pack. Its made of another Sonoma pack, minus the overload and the middle tender spring. Next im going to grind the serrated ends off the bushings and sandwitch bronze bushings in there. I will put weld washers on the outside of the mounts, put...

hard to believe that's the same truck, great job!

I think the Robby Gordon patent stuff is hilarious. The double driveshaft independent suspension has been done for at least 55 years. The way Gordon works is someone invents a toaster and Gordon patents putting bread in it.

I love these trucks, I got your trucks great grand pappy as a long term project

I ran an 18" single-coilover rear 4-link setup back around 2004–2006, and honestly, it was a huge pain to tune. After a lot of trial and error with shock adjustments, it eventually worked, but it took forever. At one point Greg Gagnon tuned it for me, and I ran ROR a few times with it. I’m...

if its not to late I would be very interested in bringing my sleeper

Thems me old bedsides.

Surprisingly, the body roll isn’t bad at all. This is my first go with a radius-arm straight axle setup, and honestly it kind of feels like it has a built-in sway bar—the rear flexes before the front even starts to move. Road manners are decent; definitely acceptable for road trips and twisties...

Pissnoma Update I finally got the suspension working halfway decent on the Sonoma. All it took was valving it as light as humanly possible: 8’s on rebound, 10’s on compression all the way around, and yanking the poppets and springs out of the compression tube bypass. Basically, I set it up...