Denny
Canned Monster
Nothing worse then missing nuts! Don’t loose your nuts!
I like the logic behind air shocks, but while looking over offroad vehicles, the vast majority of offroad vehicles have coil-over shocks. The combination of Gas/springs adapt to a wider variety of forces, faster, than air shocks alone. Additionally, I plan on going to some pretty remote areas, and If I blow a seal/air line running air shocks, I could be MIA. Blow a seal on coil overs, and I still have the actual metal spring component to give me some sloppy suspension, good enough to get home.Love that long travel suspension. Ever considered air shocks? I put Monroe MA775 air shocks on my long travel front end, great adjustment and can handle anything. 15" ground clearance adjusts down to 2" whenever I want.
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Yea, good observation. I am sure I will make a few errors here and there, and I have noticed that there are scattered errors in the build plans themselves. I widened the box that the A-arms mount to by 2 inches each, and the actual a-arms are each an extra 2 inches or so long. So I should be able to get a longer travel. The picture makes it look longer than it actually is though. I am totally departing on the upper mounting setup from the build plans. On the first page of this post, a different user (ziggy I think), had a better design than Spider cats. I am doing something similar. I am putting a bumper up front, and from that bumper I am going to run a lateral(ish) bar to the front of my roll cage. That will serve as the upper mount for my shocks. As for my shocks I have them on hand. I have ones that are 14"long, and ones that are 24" long. Just debating which to use. I plan on getting that figured out over the weekend.after building my arachnid I realized that in the plans...the position of the front upper shock mounts only allows you to mount a 9 inch shock.
Certainly not long enough to be considered "long travel". If I were to do it again, I would arrange to position the upper mount maybe 8-10 inches higher to accommodate a longer shock with more travel. As is, in the stock planned location, I get about 4 inches of travel...which is probably enough for me.
Da Flash
Yup, vacuum hose snorkel, pvc air intake, up top is a shopping cart I pulled off of the highway. Extra fluids in the cart, along with a shovel and a mattock. Back is a pair of movie theatre seats I bolted in the back for my buddies who are brave enough to sit back there while offroad. Cut the wheel wells to fit bigger tires. Wherever it rubbed I just hit with a sledge hammer till it didn't rub anymore. I actually have had to use that gas tank a few different times because there are not many gas stations out in rural Central Oregon. My neighbor was a mechanic and just came over to put a few hundred stickers on the vehicle.The '99 Escort..........Pretty sure I'm seeing a snorkel up on the roof (yes/no, check one), but what's all that other stuff?
............and curious why there's seats using up the trunk while a jerry can is strapped up right beside the driver. Is it full of Koolaid instead of a highly flammable/explosive petroleum product, like say maybe, gasoline?
Yea, good observation. I am sure I will make a few errors here and there, and I have noticed that there are scattered errors in the build plans themselves. I widened the box that the A-arms mount to by 2 inches each, and the actual a-arms are each an extra 2 inches or so long. So I should be able to get a longer travel. The picture makes it look longer than it actually is though. I am totally departing on the upper mounting setup from the build plans. On the first page of this post, a different user (ziggy I think), had a better design than Spider cats. I am doing something similar. I am putting a bumper up front, and from that bumper I am going to run a lateral(ish) bar to the front of my roll cage. That will serve as the upper mount for my shocks. As for my shocks I have them on hand. I have ones that are 14"long, and ones that are 24" long. Just debating which to use. I plan on getting that figured out over the weekend.
It will be a while, probably May. But the day will come!So, when do we go for our first ride! Getting antsy to see this done.