Went out to acquire a new product last night. Found one I had not used before. It is a custom, high angle tie rod and connecting sleeve for old junk IFS.

Take a close look at the angles attained here. Quite the fix for long travel front suspensions.



Some of you may be familar with this pose. The last couple times, nothing was broke. This time that was not the case.



In case you want another look.



IFS, blah, blah.

Wrong line, blah blah. It was going great until the steering went soft and I got out to investigate. This happened under the rigs power, not using the winch.

This was not extreme rock crawling either.

At least I got to be on the good end of this.

 

Haha, now that's pretty cool lookin'.



Any other damage?

 

When I backed out, it ripped in half. No damage, though I worked both bumpers, both sliders and my beadlocks.

Everything else worked as it should. The hoops got ridden hard a couple times, the skids got hammered. I even sat, both ends locked, and spun cranking it lock to lock when I was high centered a couple times. No CV's would bust.

The coilover truck did that about a mile into the trip. He had stock gears and one locker. Until I killed the steering, my truck was kicking the hell out of that truck. Gearing and lockers mean a lot more than a cool front suspension.

 

Wow...that pigeon-toed look is worse than I saw your front end do in Moab. How long to fix on the trail?

 

This was the big one. I have been fostering delusions of limping IFS along, oh well. That was a tough spot, but I was not getting on it hard. Before it was idlers bending, now with the brace it is tie rods and sleeves.

The fix was easy, less than 5 minutes to pull the parts after the sleeve tore in half. Thank God for the air gun. The long part was waiting for people to hike to the tow rigs, drive to town, strip parts with hand tools, drive back, and hike in. We were working faster on the trail than they did in the garage.

 

Well, you know the answer, down, dirty, cheap and simple. Use what you have already and save your money.

Like you said, you where kicking the thing, You need to go to the SA due to steering issues, just fix what the problem is don't build a web dream truck.

End of July I have some time, you let me know.

 

Carnage in Boulder is a fun trail huh? You have anymore pictures?

 

Decent fun, better than work at least.

Until the steering pooped, I took all the lines I thought were reasonable for a rig with a body and owned them. One place I took a spot and where I broke I got into trouble on my own. A spotter would not have helped.

I have a couple more pics. Not sure if they are web worthy.

 

Found the new week point huh?

Wow, impressive!