Lift For 40's?

[Jeepster90]

my friend has a samuri with 33's and it does great and he only spent like 600 bucks, cmon i agree 40's on a samuri is pretty darn stupid, just stick you a 6in lift and some backspaced wheels and have a ball.

 

[Rich]

Hi, God? This is Rich... I have a small favor. Could you PLEASE let this thread die? Thanks a bunch.

 

[Wolfpack OffRoad]

Here ya' go Rich

 

[Joel]

btt for Rich

 

[Ricky B]

Since I'm soo bored . . . anyone know what It would take to get my 52's on a stock samurai without cutting the fenders, I read somewhere if I do a spring over conversion it will allow the stock axles to be able to handle the tire

Also I figure since my goal is for it to be my DD I will swap in some 3.08 gears in the axles for good milage I'm hoping to get close to 30mpg by the gears and adding a vortex to my intake

 

[Reed]

The vortex is good for 30mpg's by itself with that setup... Noob.

 

[SSWaters]

Just do it already, this thread started 05? Do it like this, it would at least get 30' to the gallon;
View attachment awww.postimage.org_aVtSGLr.jpg

 

[Ricky B]

Awsome

Think it'd be strait to run the hydraulic ram suspension on the road? LOL just kidding.

I wonder if using hydraulic rams for suspension would even work???

 

[rattlecanpaint]

Only if you wanted it to ride like a low rider on hydros... as in it only moves when you move the little switch.

 

[Caver Dave]

I wonder if using hydraulic rams for suspension would even work???

PM this Nathan about it ("IHRedRider"@POR, tell him I said ). His binder is running air over hydraulic on surplus cylinders... uses some sort of rotary valve that allows him to individually pressure up/down each cylinder. I4 198 (w/ carbon fiber crotch rocket muffler ), TF727, linked D44s (welded), 35" Boggers... works pretty dang well for the coin he has in it... the majority of his info the subject

End of Trail#3 at Windrock, just up from the "bypass"...

 

[Ricky B]

Wow, that is really frikin cool, fairly inexpensive, and looks like fairly simple to setup and you have a fully adjustable setup . . . . wonder why we don't see more of this?

 

[Ricky B]

Holy crap I just had a sick idea . . . . what if you had a suspension like this, with a triangulated 4 link so that you had the two lower links and a single mounting point above the rear axle . . .

but instead of solid links for your two lower links you had rams, and literally moved the entire rear axle for rear steer via pivoting on the single upper link . . . . obviously that upper link would not be able to handle too much angle but with it as a rear steer application it should have enough . . . .

 

[336wheeler]

It wouldn't steer in an arc. More like... an angle.

 

[paradisePWoffrd]

heres an XJ with air over hydro in the rear...
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139642&pp=25&page=11

as far as the last question i dont think that they would hold up as lowers, and it might change the pinion angle if you steered it during cycling, as well youd be limited by u-joint angle of the driveshaft

 

[CTRaceWorx]

Ive been playing with the hydro idea also. More so a hydro coilover. By far more expensive than the air over hydro but much more tunable. Run a three chamber ram with coils over the ram and a single free floating mounting point on the ram. If the thread gets into this more then ill share some more ideas as i havent really seen anything like it before. Good luck Ricky

 

[Ricky B]

Ive been playing with the hydro idea also. More so a hydro coilover. By far more expensive than the air over hydro but much more tunable. Run a three chamber ram with coils over the ram and a single free floating mounting point on the ram. If the thread gets into this more then ill share some more ideas as i havent really seen anything like it before. Good luck Ricky

Thanks, I mean it'll be a bit before i consider redoing the suspension on the Z71 jeep, like probably not till fall, but the main thing I want to do is get rear steer, but I might end up redoin the rear setup while I'm at it and this idea seems to be pretty sweet, I was reading over on the pirate thread linked above and it seems pretty strait forward.

 

[SSWaters]

Wow, 3 yr old thread jumpstarted!

On the axle thing, why not a shaft inside a tube (sorta like a vette or a mog) that pivots around itself at the yoke mount, the tube is sprung closer up at the tranny, sorta like trailing link gear on some aircraft.

 

[RatLabGuy]

So @Ricky B did this ever get finished?

 

[Scooter402]

This is a Sami on 38.5's that I used to race in NC...granted, the fenders were cut and the front axle was moved forward, but whatever. And yes, she always beat the living shit out of me. That little fucker was fast. Yes, I said she. And yes, before anyone asks...she's smokin' hot too. That at least took some sting out of it.

 

[braxton357]

I was just wondering the other day whatever happened to Ricky b. Maybe he's a famous cinematographer now?

 

[CasterTroy]

So @Ricky B did this ever get finished?

You musta upped your dosage of "forum troll" this week

 

[drkelly]

Dang, I remember this thread, and many others like it that were started by him. I remember one that he started where he was going to plate the frame on his 1/2 ton Z71 to turn it into a 3/4 or 1 ton tow rig. Some of his old threads were close to the modern day 'fuller' material. Whatever happened to that guy? The last time I saw him was announcing at an ECORS race at DPG.

 

[Ron]

He's still around Mooresville.
Last time we talked, may e 6 months ago, he was still making a living full time promoting events. Mainly in the mud big and diesel pulling world.

Ricky is a genuine good dude.

 

[C.Berry]

I think @Ricky B got to big for us... Orrrrr he may have caught something from all those girls climbing on rigs for photo shoots too, who knows!? Lol

 

[77GreenMachine]

I think @Ricky B got to big for us... Orrrrr he may have caught something from all those girls climbing on rigs for photo shoots too, who knows!? Lol

Mud crickets!