The B. Lee's Offroad 3 Link L/A Upgrade
03-09-2016, 03:50 PM
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We're in 2016 Seems to me like you are.. and you even said it yourself, he has a small business with many orders. That tells me people like his product and are ready to wait to get it, but since you're special you should get some type of special treatment. And sounds to me like you're the one trying to start the bad word to mouth, you haven't even bought anything and find a way to complain. You're simply making a mountain out of a mole hill. me, me, me
I have his long arms, my brother has his long arms, and my friend has his steering. Did you even read the thread or just read my post and jump to a conclusion?
I bought a product, I shouldn't have to wait weeks to hear back from the company I bought it from. Maybe that's your thing though, who knows.
Again I can appreciate small businesses, but as you made perfectly clear, because I did forget, it is 2016; he could easily respond to emails or voicemails in an hour. An hour.
03-09-2016, 03:52 PM
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I'm not complaining about the product, let me make that clear, nor am I complaining about service, I simply said he should make time to respond to all media inquires. For everyone.
But according to you that makes me selfish.
But according to you that makes me selfish.
03-09-2016, 08:12 PM
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Alright
Before it gets out of hand let's leave it at this
I'll personally call Brian and have him get on here to address everything.
He has a couple folks assisting him and is well aware he is covered up.
He has kick *** products and runs a pretty kick *** operation
Before it gets out of hand let's leave it at this
I'll personally call Brian and have him get on here to address everything.
He has a couple folks assisting him and is well aware he is covered up.
He has kick *** products and runs a pretty kick *** operation
03-09-2016, 08:37 PM
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All the haste in the last post was towards the poster that read one post out of the whole thread and assumed something; apparently thinking he's above us all and that stating the year means I need to have Facebook haha.
If you can get a hold of him tell him to clear his voicemails first so we can leave messages.
03-10-2016, 07:36 AM
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I love my LA's. Everyone I know with his stuff loves it too. I recommend his stuff to anyone and everyone. Again I'm just stating he should spend an hour to catch up all voicemails/emails so more cans be left. All the haste in the last post was towards the poster that read one post out of the whole thread and assumed something; apparently thinking he's above us all and that stating the year means I need to have Facebook haha. If you can get a hold of him tell him to clear his voicemails first so we can leave messages.
03-13-2016, 12:56 PM
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Sorry guys, today is my catch-up-on-messages-and-voicemails-and-emails-and-texts day. I'll answer each question individually. I haven't disappeared, and yes - Facebook is the easiest and fastest way to have a question answered. Either my personal page or the shop page, both are open lines of real time communication for us.
We're adding staff, we're increasing production, and we're shipping parts daily. We're also dropping other pieces of the business that are too time consuming to focus on producing parts. It's a growing process, we're adapting, and we're in it for the long haul. All of this is because of your support, and I cannot say thank you enough to everyone for that!
We're adding staff, we're increasing production, and we're shipping parts daily. We're also dropping other pieces of the business that are too time consuming to focus on producing parts. It's a growing process, we're adapting, and we're in it for the long haul. All of this is because of your support, and I cannot say thank you enough to everyone for that!
03-13-2016, 01:05 PM
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I have a question for those that have had theirs a while now as well. My first upper heim lasted all of 3 days of street driving before developing a clunk. Ok, maybe bad heim from RS(I used RS heims right off the bat and saved the B Lee ones as spares), so warrantied the heim for a new one. Was doing good for a couple weeks until the jeeps first wheeling since rebuild, and now the second one is clunking even worse than the first.
I can crawl under the jeep and push/pull the upper arm and hear the clunking, however there is no visible play anywhere.
Being my first experience with heims, I don't know if it's ANOTHER bad heim from RS, the teflon liner wore too quick, not enough threads into the link(jam nut is on very tight), or just how heims sound after break in. It's obnoxiously loud in the cab, and can be heard even just driving down the road, not hitting bumps.
Insight from anyone would be awesome, I'm thinking of calling up B Lee and asking for an upper arm with a 7/8 heim, because my lowers have been SOLID ever since installing and I feel like maybe my rig is asking for too much from a single 3/4 upper.
I can crawl under the jeep and push/pull the upper arm and hear the clunking, however there is no visible play anywhere.
Being my first experience with heims, I don't know if it's ANOTHER bad heim from RS, the teflon liner wore too quick, not enough threads into the link(jam nut is on very tight), or just how heims sound after break in. It's obnoxiously loud in the cab, and can be heard even just driving down the road, not hitting bumps.
Insight from anyone would be awesome, I'm thinking of calling up B Lee and asking for an upper arm with a 7/8 heim, because my lowers have been SOLID ever since installing and I feel like maybe my rig is asking for too much from a single 3/4 upper.
I have been running the same heims in the same 3 link under my Jeep for almost 3 years now. I get a squeak from the heim in my upper link periodically, but a shot of WD-40 remedies it for another few months.
Did you already order the 7/8" bung & heim? Did that fix your clunk?
- Brian
03-13-2016, 04:29 PM
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I'm not sure you gained anything by swapping in the RS heims over ours, other than the clunking noise. I have had that noise on some of our old kits with those heims, but the heims we use now I have had zero issues with. Did you try putting our heim back in your upper link? I have been running the same heims in the same 3 link under my Jeep for almost 3 years now. I get a squeak from the heim in my upper link periodically, but a shot of WD-40 remedies it for another few months. Did you already order the 7/8" bung & heim? Did that fix your clunk? - Brian
Also like above let us know when you start working on skid options, I'd love to just be able to buy a bolt on one and not deal with fabbing one.
And another question, starting another build, a Juggy(jeep buggy), I want a winch stubby bumper and went to go look at yours, but there is only one photo on your webpage and it's very close, I can't even tell where the winch mounts.
I'd like to get a stubby where the winch mounts behind the stubby, requiring me to cut off the front crossmember, that way it's nice and tucked.
Could you post more pics of your winch stubby somewhere?
Thank you for getting back to us, like I said above I recommend your stuff to everyone.
03-15-2016, 07:15 PM
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For what's it worth, Ruffstuff Heims' quality have gone down in last few years. I probably replaced about total of a dozen Heims in last two years on friends' jeeps and they all are less than a year when it needed replacing. (All of them were 5/8, 3/4, and 7/8 Heims. So far it looks like their 1.25 Heims are still of good quality.
03-17-2016, 09:36 AM
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UPDATE:
Got the old bung cut off, and new one welded on. With the new 7/8 heim installed all noise is completely gone. The weird thing is the 3/4 one coming off had no visual play, but was making all the noise. However I do still have a noise on take off from a stop, almost like a hole is wallowed and a bolt is moving. I have checked everything over multiple times and don't see where it could be coming from. As far as the clunking though it is completely gone for now, we'll see if it stays away.
Got the old bung cut off, and new one welded on. With the new 7/8 heim installed all noise is completely gone. The weird thing is the 3/4 one coming off had no visual play, but was making all the noise. However I do still have a noise on take off from a stop, almost like a hole is wallowed and a bolt is moving. I have checked everything over multiple times and don't see where it could be coming from. As far as the clunking though it is completely gone for now, we'll see if it stays away.