Flex with 1 bolt removed

[concretejungle]

Yes, on what christo says. I have seen a taco with a huge lift using coil overs, when he was on a flat gravel road running very low speeds around a turn, he would nearly tip over.

 

[green_machine]

oh, and fyi. a standard receiver hitch pin fits the radius arm. not that I would recommend such a thing. nudge nudge. wink wink.

j

 

[e9999]

interesting way to access springs for changing them, too....

 

[AMMO]

I am pretty sure they make coil overs that can support the weight. If they can use them on F250's and F350's it should work. However coil over has no negative spring rate like a retained coil spring and it makes the trucks very floppy.

Don't mind the funny lookin guy in the pic, just for reference of just how big this F550 is. We see a bunch of these out here and yes they are 4 linked and coil-overed. Just FYI you can run a coil over on anything, the shocks do not support the rig the springs do, and the springs do not come with the shock. This F550 has 3.0 or maybe 4.0's Kings If I remember correctly, that’s DIA. The springs are made by King and come in different rates, depending on app. Eibach also is a spring manufacture that many run on coil overs. Springs alone are around $200 a spring and on something that long, x 2 for each coil over = $400 per coil over just in springs. You looking @ 4k to 5K all said in done in springs and shocks for a good coil overset up. Less for a smaller DIA set up of course.

http://www.kingshocks.com/

 

[mnwolftrack]

Holy #@!%. I come from the world of leaf sprung solid axle Toyota pickups and 4Runners, and that appears to spank much of it.

I wonder what the feasibility and consequences would be to fab a new mount on the axle for that missing bolt that would actually retain the bolt. To be more clear, a mount with a hole that is more of a slot so that the bolt could slide from the stock position to the maxed out position.

 

[Josh83]

It wouldn't be hard to fab up a sloted mount for the front bolt. It would be a simple matter of machining a curved slot in some plate and welding it on. Seems like it would catch on a lot of stuff though.

 

[atl zj]

Hes only removing one of the bolts. So, the second bolt on the other control arm controls wrap.

Could probably do a little better by cutting off the front bushing of each control arm and running a third short arm with heims from the top of the axle to one of the control arms. This would give you adjustable caster and more flex. (The fewer of those big bushings in the control arm the better for flex)

Where could you possibly have gotten that idea?

The flex does look good though jackson.. My only concern would be that driver side arm causing minor clearance issues as the front rotates further downward.