Blocks in the back bad?
06-07-2013, 01:12 AM
#91
Are you guys old enough to drive jeeps? Holy cow I have never seen such immaturity . LOL
ANd demonoid369, what in the world are you carrying on about. You are like in your own little world. LOL
FOr those out there lurking, please ignore this nonsense and ask a professional in your area who knows what he is talking about.
Someone who does more than read and post things on the net for the sake of arguing.
ANd demonoid369, what in the world are you carrying on about. You are like in your own little world. LOL
FOr those out there lurking, please ignore this nonsense and ask a professional in your area who knows what he is talking about.
Someone who does more than read and post things on the net for the sake of arguing.
06-07-2013, 01:33 AM
#92
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theres your answer caveman, care to counter that?
hmmm what did you say caveman about experience?
so lets cut all this B.S. aside and get one straight answer from you since you are all knowing.
are you saying that your short life experience is truly and utterly true and that hundreds of years worth of testing and calculating and refining physics from highly intelligent people is false? just answer me that
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theres your answer caveman, care to counter that?
hmmm what did you say caveman about experience?
so lets cut all this B.S. aside and get one straight answer from you since you are all knowing.
are you saying that your short life experience is truly and utterly true and that hundreds of years worth of testing and calculating and refining physics from highly intelligent people is false? just answer me that
You will find 10times the amount of spring failures on the net than block failures. Even a guy posted up in this thread of how his RE leaf pack was toast in a year. Mine are not nearly that bad. And my rc coils are broke in a year.
SO you are trying to post an argument that blocks may prematurely wear out your spring?
WHo cares! People who wheel hard are lucky to have good suspension in a year.
YOu have an on paper argument that does not mean jack in the real world.
"But pick ups are not used off road" Are you serious?! You whole rant was about axle wrap
What do you think hauling heavy loads on tarmac causes? A heck of a lot more axle wrap than playing in the dirt!
I have blocks and unstrapped leafs. And don't have any problems with axle wrap. Yea I most certainly have axle wrap. But I don't care. You can not even notice it. And I already got more than a year out of them.
06-07-2013, 02:17 AM
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You are a special kind of stupid huh?
You tell people on the interwebz that open diffs, short arms, and now blocks is the best setup to have.
06-07-2013, 03:01 AM
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I've been running rough country full leaf packs with no issues at all and so do a lot of people. I think they get a bad name simply because they are cheaper. You don't always have to spend a ton of money. cheap doesn't necessarily mean it is junk. heck most of us are driving cheap old jeeps and they definitely aren't junk. I wouldn't be afraid of rough country at all.
06-07-2013, 06:32 AM
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Trucks with blocks from the factory are designed for them. They have leaf packs that barely flex and have much thicker leaves than our dainty 1/4 ton xj leaf springs.
I have come to the conclusion that anyone who thinks blocks are fine on an xj for offroad use sticks to easygoing trails where wheelspin is non-existant, and doesn't beat on their junk on the pavement either.
Flip flops are fine for a walk in the park, but if you a climbing a mountain you want some hiking boots.
Bastard packs are just as cheap as lift blocks and work MUCH better. Even if they work great first time out or it takes an hour of trial and error.
06-07-2013, 07:08 AM
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My information is compleatly false and I enjoy making stuff up
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06-07-2013, 07:12 AM
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You posted a video a while back saying how much easier your set-up climbed this hill better than the others. Let's see that video, please.
06-07-2013, 07:43 AM
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06-07-2013, 07:47 AM
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06-07-2013, 07:55 AM
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I've seen several of your wheeling pictures. I won't say that you don't wheel (I've seen it at least once) but you don't wheel to the same level as several of the folks that are giving opposite advice.
You posted a video a while back saying how much easier your set-up climbed this hill better than the others. Let's see that video, please.
You posted a video a while back saying how much easier your set-up climbed this hill better than the others. Let's see that video, please.
NO matter what I post you guys will twist it and make an argument of it.
06-07-2013, 08:34 AM
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I think most people will agree with me on this but you will obviously deny it. but almost everything you post seems to be an attempt to stir up some feathers. I mean look at your Sig lol.
06-07-2013, 08:37 AM
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I run blocks, they work, but not very great. Off road more than most, but i wish i could do harder trails with out wrecking my wimpy springs, i can't afford to buy nice new ones....I have been threatening to go back to coil spacers in the front, and lower my back end an inch or so...I will have to lower my back end an inch and a half but I am not losing the blocks. They don't work great but i don't beat on my jeep hard enough for it to matter, i won't destroy anything and it's the cheapest way to fit my tires. 1.5in blocks mind you. Not huge ones. I wheel constantly, but can't afford to break stuff. if you want to do it the cheap way, follow my advice, i have a lot of experience installing cheap lift kits. There are a lot of guys on here who know better when it comes to blocks, so my advice is really pointless if you are looking to upgrade your rear suspension at this time. People with better experience than me are going come into this thread and discredit pretty much everything i say, I will warn you.
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