n16ht5

I have a 1.5" lift and it works out great, but Im not sure how much is too much on the cv angle. how much angle do you all have?

fillsrunner4

Your not going to hurt yours with that small of a lift. I think CV's go to about 35 but a stock toyota U-joint can reach 45 no binding. Not really recomended to do that but it can be done.

FredTJ

Easiest way is to jack up the front such that the front wheels are at full drop and then spin each one by hand and see if they CV's are binding.
You should also check and much sure that they don't bind when totally stuffed, however that's going to be harder to do.





Fred

n16ht5

OK, i did that and theres no binding... Im worried too that I will wear boots out a lot (dont have hubs)

FredTJ

Get a set of hubs... Problem solved




Fred

machabees

What Fred said. Hey that rhymes.

n16ht5

I hate putting on hubs when ADD works so well :-/

hmm...

Jay351

Leave the hubs locked, and its like ADD. When you wheel you lock them when you air down. Or in winter time just leave them locked for the duration of the snow, thats what I do. Really helps on hwy driving to have unlocked hubs.


Anyways, im running about 1.5" total front suspension lift over stock. I have 0 binding at full droop. I wouldnt see you having a real problem untill you got to around 2-2.5" over stock.

dirtoyboy

Til your ADD fails and you have to walk 3 miles barefoot thru the woods to get help.....



dont ask why I was wheeling with no shoes

n16ht5

HIllbilly!@! haha


ive broken a lot of hubs and Ive seen a few exploded toy hubs.. either or can fail. I will keep the ADD on for now, see how eveyrthing holds.. so far so good after 4 months. if I had it any higher I would def get hubs though.

machabees

dirtboy what actually failed. was it the add system or the hubs?

Beaniam

Weird, I've seen a lot of people say with 1.5" BJ spacers they don't get any binding at full droop. When I put mine in I couldn't even turn the wheels from the binding at full droop. I added 1/2" of spacers to the bump stops and it only very slightly binds now at full droop. The 4crawler 1" diff drop helped a little.

thook

How old are the CV's? Maybe they are worn or just need fresh grease.

Beaniam

The left CV which actually seems to bind sooner I replaced less than 6 months ago, the right was on the truck when I got it 1.5 years ago.

thook

Okay....rule that one out....

Sorry, don't know what else to tell you, then.

FredTJ

I won't ask that question.
I'll ask the much, much more serious question which is "why were you wheeling alone" ?




Fred

Matt16

I can't tell the difference whether my hubs are locked or unlocked when I'm driving on road. I unlock my hubs to limit wear on the boots.

thook

Same reason he didn't have any shoes........foresight!