2" lift and the drunk dog

[rufus]

I love my Rovertym 2" lift. It does (and goes) far more than I expected. I did some reading around these parts and spotted a few items here and there about these D1 wandering about the road with lifts and feeling a bit cooky alltogether to drive. I unsucessfuly tried GCR steelies for some wider track (of six, four were not useable out of the box...back they go) so I am back to stock wheels for now. I'll be fhe first to admit it, this thing is 90% commute and %10 trail. Is there a way to counter act the sway my Disco exhibits now? Are there any sources for beefier sway bars? (no worries when you can quick disconnect). I have already decided to sell off my damn near new mud terrains in favor of all terrains to try to help the road manners (any one interested in 5 265/75/16 mtrs?)...but what else? Granted...my imput to the steering wheel has drasticly reduced I am not giving up on the lift.

 

[craig]

The wider track will help some, but you are also probably experiencing a castor problem. The lift, causes the steering angle to get steeper which makes steering the truck like riding a unicycle. The fix is to get longer radius arms. Call Steve at RTE and buy a pair. With a wider track and the castor corrected, the MTs should be fine.

What spring rate are you running, and what shocks do you have? If it is swaying a lot, you might prefer a firmer spring or a better shock.

--Craig

 

[rufus]

The previous owner opted for heavy duty front springs and medium duty rears. I am assuming and think I am right when I say the shocks are all heavy duty (its all RTE stuff). arms eh? hmmm...damn. I guess the money I'll get back on the wheels can go for the arms. I am not messing with wheels anymore. You hit it spot on when likening it to a unicycle. Are there any suspension geometry changes that can be made to the stock pieces to aid this issue?

 

[flyfisher11]

a Trutrac front diff helps too.

 

[rufus]

Well, that is probably more in depth than I need to get. I know the lift is fairly new so the springs may have not had enough time to work and settle out. In my few phone calls to the guru's and doing some more digging around here, it seems the arms from RTE are the way to go for correction to the driveline angle IF after giving the springs a good workout does not settle things out a bit. I might even try to source out a used heavy duty sway bar for my on the road adventures.

 

[batmac2k]

what kind of tires and how much you want?

or are we back to keeping the mud tires...
[don't be a tease]

 

[rufus]

No, I am not teasing about the mud terrains. They are Kuhmo Road Venture MT's. Nice tires, I can not be exact on the milage, but it's very little. I can email you some pictures in a bit. drop me an email - ruf455@msn.com

 

[Str0ud]

WTF? I wanna know about the drunk dog.

 

[rufus]

Short story made shorter: I discovered the life altering nature of having your steering geometry out of sorts when swerving to not totally pummel a dog wandring in the street. We jumped out to inspect the pooch (tagged only by the underside of the disco) and found that the dog was fuming with the smell of booze (insert "booze hound" pun here). This caused two things to occur to me: 1. There has to be a way to make the Disco be less dangerous to manuver 2. How in gods name did this dog get drunk? The dude was wasted.

Moral of the story: fix your caster angle before any emergency manuvers.

 

[syoung]

Thanks for finding my dog... can you give him a lift back home? He forgot where he's parked.