Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 7, 2014 Author Posted December 7, 2014 Two wheel drive out getting ready for my hp dana 30, i am only gonna run one upper control arm anyone else do this? I've never seen anyone running just one UCA on short arms. What's the purpose of this? ya you leave the on the top of the diff. and take the other one off and ive heard atleast that i will get better flex running shorts arms
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 8, 2014 Author Posted December 8, 2014 axle is in, only on problem one of the coils springs lost like 6 inches of the bottom ring it just rusted off when taking it off the 2wd so it leans to the drivers side, i need to find some stock coils but I'm happy with the look for now
benjy_26 Posted December 8, 2014 Posted December 8, 2014 Looks good! I'm very interested in seeing how much flex you get, as well as the durability you have when using 3 arms.
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 8, 2014 Author Posted December 8, 2014 Looks good! I'm very interested in seeing how much flex you get, as well as the durability you have when using 3 arms. actually me to, ive never done it before. i am running stock arms right now so i feel like with just one upper it will bend easy ?
benjy_26 Posted December 9, 2014 Posted December 9, 2014 A buddy of mine ripped his upper control arm mount off the rear of his ZJ on a long run. We unbolted it and turned back, then drove home. It held up to about 150 road miles and about 30 miles of trails. This is on a heavy, loaded V8 ZJ running on 33's. The only difference I see is that when you go over something, the axle will try to push towards the body. My bud's ZJ rear end was being pushed away from the body. Compression vs tension stress. If you have your heart set on this, I'd at least use WJ LCA's. At least they're boxed. :-/
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 9, 2014 Author Posted December 9, 2014 A buddy of mine ripped his upper control arm mount off the rear of his ZJ on a long run. We unbolted it and turned back, then drove home. It held up to about 150 road miles and about 30 miles of trails. This is on a heavy, loaded V8 ZJ running on 33's. The only difference I see is that when you go over something, the axle will try to push towards the body. My bud's ZJ rear end was being pushed away from the body. Compression vs tension stress. If you have your heart set on this, I'd at least use WJ LCA's. At least they're boxed. :-/ actually panning on upgrading the lower arms just don't have the cash flow at the moment
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 9, 2014 Author Posted December 9, 2014 lifted a buddy's xj, also my daily in the background on blocks cause i got new wheels
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 11, 2014 Author Posted December 11, 2014 more updates are coming however i am doing finals at school and won't be home to work on the turd till the 18th
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted December 14, 2014 Author Posted December 14, 2014 picking up some decent coil springs off a 99 cherokee to fix my leaning problem
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 Started on the front brakes got the hoses on went to bleed the calipers and the bleeders broke off :fs1: they were really old calipers but i thought i could still use them, oh well i just need to go pick up some new ones.
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 picked up some used 4wd cherokee coils to fix my leaning problem
Jakesjeepmj1988 Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 Weather has been nice got back to work this week
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