Random things you hear that tell more than it should

mrblaine

Crew Member
Supporting Member
Joined
Nov 20, 2015
Messages
28,747
Location
Quail Valley, CA
If you know how to read between the lines.
Yep, we're gonna start using them fancy new tie down points on builds and hopefully we can get them to work with a suck down winch.
Put another way, not something you hear about a build with correct geometry. ;)
 
If you know how to read between the lines.
Yep, we're gonna start using them fancy new tie down points on builds and hopefully we can get them to work with a suck down winch.
Put another way, not something you hear about a build with correct geometry. ;)
I see what you did there. 😆
 
So you're anti pull down winch?

20190725_132900.jpg


20190725_132924.jpg


20190725_132938.jpg


20190725_132946.jpg


20190725_132953.jpg


20190725_132959.jpg


20190725_133005.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: TJ Starting
Met a Cherokee dude who said "I custom fabbed my long arms so they'd be longer than any of the bolt on kits" which he indeed had. This was before I really knew anything about suspension geometry, so I thought it was cool at the time.
 
Do you find it odd that you posted up a rig with 250 lbs of weight in each front tire?

Added or weigh that much? 250 doesn't seem unreasonable for a beadlock/tire combo that size.


I know that you were refrencing the hillbillies that don't know how to properly build a vehicle, but suckdown winches do have their place.
 
Added or weigh that much? 250 doesn't seem unreasonable for a beadlock/tire combo that size.
I have personally helped Cody demount one tire bead and pour in 10 bags of lead shot.


I know that you were refrencing the hillbillies that don't know how to properly build a vehicle, but suckdown winches do have their place.

What is their place? On rigs with good geometry that climb well or on rigs with compromised geometry that don't climb well?
 
As an option to help if needed.
It can reduce the effects of bad geometry or improve on the good in certian situations.

In small scale stuff i found them more usefull in off camber situations than hil climbs. Mostly as an adjustable shock limiter than to try and change the cog.
 
I'm more less "anti" if you don't know why you have or need a suck-down winch. Plenty out there incorporate them into a build which most of the time tells me you haven't tested your geometry, your ok with it working bad, you just like to tell people you have it, or you don't care why. One of my 2 rigs here had it, the other doesn't need it. Both can climb some stupid stuff, one better than the other.
18921036_10209435401303620_6790275777981037137_o.jpg67800069_10214889615855575_8574927808764051456_n (1).jpg