well if you saw my past thread about these guys, you know what my plans are



I'm so impatient





I also got some thicker t-bars with them too, but I'm not sure if I'm going to use them as of yet; I think the flex will benifet a little more with the stock t-bars, but we'll see. If I don't use 'em, their going on eBay



man I can't wait to finish getting all the parts together and begin the install...

 

Great find. Ever since I saw this thread http://forum.ih8mud.com/79-95-toyota...936-rotbw.html, I've wondered about those.

Take lots of pictures

 

haha, that's the thread that made me look into it a lot more!

then I bought the only set of Rancho UCAs I could find from this man

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=741645

...as you can see by the last post in that thread, lol

 

Nice! Thats awsume. So what exactly do these things do? Do they work with a diff drop to give lift?

 

ummmm, they look pretty!

but aside from adding a little flash to the suspention the way the pivot point is mounted to the frame, they alow the arms to be a bit longer than the stockers, which is what the LT kits take advantage of and allow for a little more travel. Though not as much travel as an LT kit will offer, if set up correcetly, the UCA in combination with a BJ spacer, low profile bump stops, and diff drop to keep the CVs from exploding, will allow for 12+ inches of wheel travel on each side! The longer arms also change the load on the t-bars because of the leverage on them, so it easier to compress them, so on stock t-bars the flex will be improved quite a bit (hince why I may opt out of using the thicker t-bars; the thicker bars might keep me from reaching full compression)

at least, this is the theory from what I read and hear about them

 

SAWWWWEEEETTT !!

 

what would we do without the UPS guy?

One of my favorite forms of entertainment is following the tracking on items shipped to me.


I know, I'm easily entertained

 

Your worse than a little kid

 

hell ya let us know how she works when its done

 

hey, i think that the UPS guy delivered those to the wrong house... they were supposed to go to mine!

 

nice
lmao the spacers all ready to go

 

Nice man. I am looking forward to the install thread!!

 

mmmmm, me likes... can't wait to see these installed

 

x2 with lots pics!

 

nothing like LT suspension, they do the same thing as a balljoint spacer by pushing the spindle down (allowing more down travel before the upper arm hits the bumpstop). while the arm may be longer, it is curved, so the length from the pivot point on the frame to the balljoint is the same distance (no increase in leverage on the torsion bar). If you were to increase the length of the upper arm it would destroy the alignment unless you also increased the lower arm (positive camber, top of tire pushing out -> \ / ). You'd also have problems with the stock inner CV's being pulled out of the "cup".

but nice find none-the-less

 

all this talk flooding myspace with red and yet its still on your bedroom floor? hwy is it not on the truck yet???

 

cause I'm getting all the parts together first

it's still my daily driver, which it will still remain my daily driver after the install, so once everything's gathered together, I'm going to borrow my father's extra truck, a little Sonoma, and drive around in it back and forth to work while I tear my Yote apart.

 

if I'm not mistaken, they're able to be longer because the pivot/rotation point is further in on the frame, acually inside the frame

from my understanding...



of caurse this is a rough sketching with Paint



but non of that extra travel could be accomplished with low profile bump stops, and some custom CVs, which are all on the list

 

ahhh, OK. I understand now, didn't see that they mount further in. That would increase your "lever arm" and since its only a little bit further in you shouldn't have any problems with torsion bar alignment. Good job

 

haha, it's all good

I had to see a pic of them installed to understand it