0RESET0 wrote:Thanks. I have been to indi for training a couple times but not in a few years. I am seriously considering your front bumper kit, I may have to make a trip and pick up both when I get the cash.
0RESET0 wrote:Wow. I am turning up Zero on my research. I can't find any other vehicle that uses the same front shock as us. I thought maybe we could just swap in a longer spring to get the lift in the front but that will probably max out the shock travel. Next I thought maybe something else used this shock and we could swap out the half wishbone thing that connects to the LCA, no dice. I am still holding out hope for finding a longer rear spring that will fit the rear. I am trying to find data like mounting area diameter, overall diameter, spring rate and uncompressed length to compare to other springs. Not exactly easy. Rear shocks seem easy enough. lots of stuff uses the dual eyelet design. XJ people developed bar pin eliminators for the upper mount on theirs so that they could use shocks for other vehicles. Just need to find the compressed and extended lengths of our stock shocks and compare.
How much would we have to shim the front diff to bring the shaft below the oil pan? Would that section of axel survive out in the open?
Has anyone ever toyed with the idea of modifying the half wishbone thing in our front suspension? Make it longer instead of shifting the whole assembly down with a spacer. Maybe one could be made out of tubing or whittled out of solid steel to replace it entirely.
Which is more of a limiting factor on our fronts, ball joints or the drive shaft angle?
Diacom wrote:K, see, the title of the post is OEM upgrades, right???
This implies from the first post or so, that folks are looking for other OEM parts we can use on this platform. However, your questions aren't about such things per say and more how do we resolve issues that have already been discussed multiple times. So maybe, had it been to the original intent of this post, and not just another place to go over issues we have with our vehicles, Mike may not have suggested that everything was already covered elsewhere.
The second part of your question is perhaps the only one that hasn't been directly addressed before. But, this isn't the post for it, unless your relating how another vehicles parts would work to accomplish what you are asking.
So now, we have 5 posts, this one included, that have nothing to do with the original intent of this thread mucking up what is possibly a good source of what works from other platforms to a Q&A session on repeat data that can be found elsewhere.
So I would recommend removing these as non contributing to help clean up this thread. I'd say I'm sorry if I offend, but I'd be lying.
The master list of acceptable lifts and accessories is in a stickied thread. We assume everybody reads the link they're given when they join, and I thought that includes a mention of the stickies. I'll have to check into that.0RESET0 wrote:OK, 9055 posts and everything is probably contained in 10 of them. Am I the first one that thought that this info should be compiled or is this something that everyone has to find out for themselves?
Sorry I came back into this thread late, and it DOES indeed need a mod clean-up to take this meta-discussion to its own thread. But giving noobs the quickest path to read up on the best recommendations is indeed the staff's mission, and it's under discussion even today on the staff forum.This seems like it is about the same as going to a medical forum to research cancer and having the members say that everything you want to know is in the posts somewhere.
As has been discussed, we call that the yoke. There are no other platforms that use this suspension design except the identical Chevy HHR (Heritage High Roof, 2006-11), a PT Cruiser clone that was designed by the same team of GM goofballs that gave us the GMT360 mutant we all know and hate/love.How about a little guidance on one part. What is the wish bone thing actually called so I can search it?
