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I bet the ball on the dorman parts were actually induction hardened and then finidhed ground to size.

Just FYI for folks about to buy these tires. The new AT4W is starting to roll out.

This kind of build is pretty inexcusable but I also can't help but wonder how people can't tell that it has happened until they look under the vehicle. Once a reservoir falls off it would be a very short amount of time before the shock pumps all of the fluid out and you would have no damping...

I think I'd start parking in low range. I've had to park my manual trans jeep in low range before since it would creep with the parking brake on and in first gear while in 2wd.

It's definitely not that crazy depending on how it's used and the environment. Dust and dirt can tear up seals. Heck, bad washboard roads can work a shock so hard that they melt the seals out in just a few miles. You may not have ever needed to change shocks on your vehicles, but I would bet...

I would throw a rope plug in that and move on with my life.

I have these tires on my jeep and have put about 12k miles on them. I don't get off the pavement as much as I'd like but mine are wearing really well. It seemed like they were wearing pretty quickly for the first couple thousand miles, but after that the wear has really slowed down. As other...

Just as a small note, don't be afraid to crimp. A good crimp is actually better than a solder joint. Solder joints tend to be brittle and don't hold up long term to vibration. In critical applications you won't see soldered joints at all, they will all be crimped.

I think the other really important takeaway from the bind discussion is that yes, while you can reinforce and overbuild every relevant component to withstand the forces, if you still actually have bind you're also greatly limiting the performance and articulation of your suspension.

I mentioned this in the last two threads with this issue. Notice the OP in this thread has suspension links with solid joints. The first guy to report this also did. I really do believe we are seeing proof of binding here and the plug welds on the axle are just the weakest link. The forces...

If you're not loaded up all the time then some air ride helper springs could be ideal for your situation.

I think I'd rather have tires that perform great for 20-30k miles and are then worn out over tires that perform marginal to sucky for 50k+ miles.

Yeah I don't think I would want to be on the same trail as this guy. Someday, either him or somebody else around him, will get hurt from his antics. And that's not even mentioning how many people he inconveniences when he rolls and blocks the trail.

I just want to know if the OP's suspension links all use hard (heim, etc) joints. I believe the other guy that broke his plug welds had solid joints on all his links. I still think it highly likely that is introducing a bind in the suspension that could be putting huge, undesigned for, loads...

I would also say in regards to the solid rod ends in the suspension links, if there is any binding whatsoever in any part of the suspension movement, the forces resolved through the links will shoot up astronomically and the resultant torque through the axle tube into the housing will be huge...

I mean this stuff is cool to be able to do it if need be, but aren't you guys ever bothered by the hassle of taking your bike apart, the chances of losing pieces like your axle, or accidently locking the brakes up without a rotor, or forgetting to bring your tool with you to put it back together...

How the heck do you explain your feeling of less brake dive? A sway bar should have essentially zero impact on suspension motion when the vehicle is pitching unless it has some jacked up geometry.

I don't know why they have to complicate this stuff so much. This is the type of thing that could easily be handled by a purely mechanical system without any kind of fancy links. At least on the jeep rubicon disconnect you could gut out the electrical components and replace the mechanism with a...

Two things: That panhard bar on the front looks super short so there will be a lot of lateral axle movement through the travel. It's probably a good thing they did hydro steer or else bump steer would have been unavoidable. The rest of the suspension links sure hang down low everywhere.

You guys that are against this system on technical grounds realize that on an engine that is already warm, restarting takes a trivially small effort from the starter, right? Manufacturers have even designed these systems to stop the engine at a strategic point in the stroke to make starting as...