considering fabricating a lift
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LOL. well im glad you know alot about me and my ability. i dont want to start a flame thread. because trust me. growing up around the herbst family kinda puts you in the off road scene. not to mention building long travel prerunners and buggies before. but all that aside. yes i am only making this kit for 2wd for 4wd is a waste. for what i want, you dont need 4wd. and for 2wd, No. there is no need for drop brackets...trust me.
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yes things would be different if this was a 2wd baha project. man that would be fun. I admit that any lift that i pull off will be mostly show.
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LOL. well im glad you know alot about me and my ability. i dont want to start a flame thread. because trust me. growing up around the herbst family kinda puts you in the off road scene. not to mention building long travel prerunners and buggies before. but all that aside. yes i am only making this kit for 2wd for 4wd is a waste. for what i want, you dont need 4wd. and for 2wd, No. there is no need for drop brackets...trust me.
If you are doing it for 2WD, then this would be easy to design. All you need are the measurements and go from there. Some redesigned upper and lower arms and a new steering knuckle is all that is needed. If you drop the arms 2 inches, all you need to do is keep the steering geometry the same which is not hard to do at all.
Hell, if you need anything CNC machined, send me the CAD files. I have a 5-axis mill and HAAS Lathe and over $75,000 in tooling, combined they can machine damn near anything.
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Right.
If the forum collected $20 for every "I'm going to build X Y Z" thread, we could have bought a Dakota by now, and probably modified the **** out of it.
There's just alot of talk here, and alot of people who don't really know what a can of worms they are getting into.
If you've built prerunners, then I'm sure you can draw up plans for a small streetable lift the next time you take a sh*t.
A lifted and rear-lockable 2WD is way cooler anyway.
Also, HAAS mills rule. It's all about keeping an eye on the controller screen, and being in the machine shop to watch the automatic tool changes. It never gets old.
If the forum collected $20 for every "I'm going to build X Y Z" thread, we could have bought a Dakota by now, and probably modified the **** out of it.
There's just alot of talk here, and alot of people who don't really know what a can of worms they are getting into.
If you've built prerunners, then I'm sure you can draw up plans for a small streetable lift the next time you take a sh*t.
A lifted and rear-lockable 2WD is way cooler anyway.
Also, HAAS mills rule. It's all about keeping an eye on the controller screen, and being in the machine shop to watch the automatic tool changes. It never gets old.