The HeavyMetal Project

[Customjob]

how did your amber wind up by your tire?

[Trailer Ray]

fronts for goflex?

[HeavyMetal]

onlyyy rear facing for speed

[Trailer Ray]

sweet! however your ambers are full of lies and slander! that was no go fast flex

[HeavyMetal]

Spent a day up at Claytons yesterday and pulled out the TNT arms. The RE joints/bushings were all cut off and replaced with rubber clevite bushings (axle end) and currie johnny joints (vehicle end). Also had two Clayton LCA mounts/skids put on (way better than the currie one/stock one i had on there before).

Zullo, being on the clock at the shop, did a lot of the legwork. thanks man

The Jeep drives off road and on better than it ever did as long as I have had it modded. I have been workin to this point for a long time... It doesnt make a single noise on the trail..just the air bumps hittin the pads and the ground under the tires, and it is all smooth as silk. Steering play is non existent after swappin in a new box and steering shaft. The final pieces of the puzzle after all the work done to it this off season, it feels like a damn factory jeep and the suspension finally shines now i think. Hoping it stays like this for at least a little bit. Haha.

And cuz everyone likes pics.

Cuttin


More cuttin


What a cutaway looks like of an RE superflex joint...


Weldin


LCA mounts



Success

[ninetysix-ex-jay]

Do they have less bind than a shackle?

Where does a shackle bind? Going with sliders gives you more travel but as far as binding goes I don't see a size-able difference between a sliding motion and an arc from a shackle

[Magilla]

Do they have less bind than a shackle?

[HeavyMetal]

Will, I can always trust you to gimme the skinny, I wish I could afford deavers...

Now my jeeps driveable I've been doing much thinking over things such as this

So do these equal to stock shackle height? I'm looking to replace my old eBay shackles and these look like a good option. Also need to figure what shackles to run before I buy new leaf packs.

I will have a lift height for everyone soon. The ones I had previously were probably equivalent to stock shackle height, these now are generating a small amount of lift. Either way I will have an answer for that soon when I am able to measure it out.

[King Ricer™]

So do these equal to stock shackle height? I'm looking to replace my old eBay shackles and these look like a good option. Also need to figure what shackles to run before I buy new leaf packs.

[Hydra]

Will, I can always trust you to gimme the skinny, I wish I could afford deavers...

Now my jeeps driveable I've been doing much thinking over things such as this

[HeavyMetal]

Well I am certainly not looking to be a snake oil salesman. The sliders eliminate the need for a shackle and the usual need to "relocate" them. Changing a "bushing" (UHMW) is retardedly easy and quick, not to mention dirt cheap and not proprietary. In addition there are a lot of "in theory" statements I have on these, but I am honestly not going to comment on how great they are until I actually use them for any amount of time. As of right now I have 1 very very mild wheeling run on them, and no speed testing. The ones I had on in Johnson Valley didnt have proper clearancing/height and the potential suffered as a result, albeit didnt perform poorly based on that.

However I will say if I didnt think there wasnt a gain to be had with them, I wouldnt have put them on my XJ (obviously). I will have a full report with all the goods as soon as I can on em.

Also realize that the moment i changed to sliders is also when I went from RE leafs to Deaver leafs, so there is a substantial change there as well that I need to sort out between the 2.

[Hydra]

Will, lets be cereal... really that huge of a difference with the sliders?

[King Ricer™]

Hmmm these leaf sliders look pretty interesting, may have to look into getting a set along with some new leaf packs. My old RC 4.5" leafs are more like 3" these days lol.

[HeavyMetal]

actually to be honest i ended up just leaving them and it never become a problem because my travel is limited before they wind themselves up

[Burton58]

and theyre in.

cant wait to get this jeep wheelin again with the new goods

yes this is a quote from over a year ago
what did you do with the brake lines on the caliper end here? flip em and grind it flat?