diegotheslinger

Thanks for suggestions everyone, going to mess around this weekend with it. Theres two new gls up north of me in the junkyard going to see if I find anything useful. Little bit depressing, but I'll be on the hunt for some used OEMs. Like the idea of maybe spacing the crossmember up and see how that works out. In any event I'll post back with some info and pictures when something comes of it. Thought I just had something terribly wrong with the lift. Not even against taking lift off, was doing great in dunes and light trails up at walker valley on snow tires. Just have alot of hits to oil pan and underside.

Yeah, I know its never going to be a crawler, but I have a blast taking it out to dunes and the forest roads. Cool looking body, light, and have taken it up some stuff that surprised me. Just wanted bit more clearance, and this first vehicle i've ever done modifications to. Would eventually like to go to smaller solid axle truck eventually, but still want to finish this up. Yep, its 3" on crossmember and 4" on the strut block. Its the standard springs for now and on 27": tires. Just trying to figure out what i've done wrong, cause I've heard of that same setup working alright for alot of people. They are blowing after like 30 miles of easy highway miles. Thats with some junkyard OEM ones and new remanufactured. I've gotten really fast at changing them out on the side of the road tho. Just looking to see if it generally looks correct, I'm a newb. Going to put new CVs on today, start trying to whats causing them to bind up. I'll post up if I find anything out.

Hello all, long time lurker here. Was wondering if any with suspension experience could give me some pointers and a look over on my lift. Car is an EJ22 swapped 1992 Loyale with the 4" lift that SJR offers. Got it on last summer for the Oregon Gambler500. Did a test drive and blew inner passenger side CV boot. Figured it was from heat of exaust so made a heatshield and threw another one on. New one seemed to be holding so started heading from Seattle to central Oregon, blew through four more on way down (OEM and REMANNED)..... really wanted to go so just beat the axle off of two of the blown ones and and reinstalled in hub. Put it in 4WD and did the rest of it with just my rear wheel drive. Drove it for a few months like that till winter. The inner CV definitely was getting hot as hell, then blowing boot out. If i remember correctly, had some shaking as well and tire shook when turning sharply. Both sides blew out. I'm going to install my last set of CVs tomorrow, and see how everything looks. Maybe get another set of eyes on the lift installation and see if anything looks off? Worried maybe got stut blocks switched. Trying to rule stuff out. Anything to look out for? Has new ball joint,tie rod ends, engine mounts, tranny mounts. Maybe tranny and engine not seated well? There is a bit of space on the tranny cross member that I had to use a spacer for. Thanks, these forums have helped alot with the project.