James;
Couple of quick questions:
1) How did you get your truck to be a demo for a lift install? Quite
interesting.
2) YOu stated that you are going to have to take off the 33"s that you
put on. Wouldn't it be possible to take care of the missing inches of
clearance with a solid body lift? By the sound of it, you only require
1 or 2 more inches of clearance. The only reason why I was thinking
about this was that the trailmaster kit also requires a bit of a body
lift to clear 33's+. Also, what was the width of the 33's that you had
on? I was hoping to put on a set of Mickey Thompson Baja's, and the
33's only come in a wide size. Would a person need spacers for a wider
tire?
Cory
97 CC V8 sport 4X4
--- james owens <jimga98@yahoo.com> wrote:
> No argument here John , just trying to figure where
> you are getting
> this info from. here is a quote from your 6/14/99
> posting on the
> DML>>>>
>
> >>I read in one other
> article where they claim 33" tire will fit, but if
> their lift is only
> 3",
> they aint gunna fit! Especially when you get the
> wheels turned and and
> suspension flexing with 12.5" wide tires. I rolled
> one of my 33's next
> to
> it and I just can't see it happening without 4" or
> 5" minimum. I use
> mine
> off road and don't want ANY rubbing.
>
> Now since the Rancho Kit was not even in any dealers
> hands until right
> after the 4th of July and since no kits had been
> installed before ( I
> know mine is the guinea pig truck for Rancho in the
> S.E) the 24th of
> July I have been searching for this posting on the
> 4x4 boards about the
> rubbing on full suspension compression thing. I
> can't find it. I would
> like to show it to the shop so i can have them check
> for this problem,
> so could you please post it here or e-mail it. I
> tried several search
> engines to locate this post maybe it is too new. and
> Who are "others".
> Have you contacted Rancho to verify this? I am going
> to call them
> tomorrow and ask. I turned my wheels to full lock
> drove into a a dip of
> about 6 inches and no noise happened (should i try
> it after cutting off
> the bump stops? maybe i can get full compression
> then) Any way I will
> ask the shop on Monday and Rancho about this
> tomorrow. I guess I should
> have asked them to just roll one up next to the
> truck and not actually
> put them on before buying into them and Rancho
> telling me the 33's
> would work. (just kidding)
>
> Have you figured out a way around that T bracket on
> the Tuff Country
> lift hanging down to a couple inches off the
> pavement problem? The way
> it looks to me you can't even straddle a parking
> bumper stop in a
> parking lot with those things hanging down. I guess
> if you put some
> kind of a skid plate to cover them that would
> protect them from
> breaking off and then you could just push the bump
> stop along. Why not
> just buy a bulldozer? Ground clearance is the key
> in off roading last
> i heard. ..... your other post>>
> >>>Easy there tiger!! I was going off what other
> people had stated on
> other off road boards. One said that his rubs on
> full compression of
> his
> suspension, to me that's unaccepable. Others have
> told me the same.
>
> again I am not arguing just speaking from the view
> of someone who has
> looked at both kits AND spent the money and had it
> done.
> _________________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:15:48 EDT