There is nothing I can say to reason with you at this point clearly so I will skip your "offer". I will add this, forums are a place for fans to come together and ask questions and get answers based on user feedback from experience. Yes there is good and bad but don't write me off when you don't know my background. Don't steamroll people because you feel you are right and therfore they MUST be wrong. That defeats the very purpose of forums. My dad told me a long time ago, never walk into a room thinking you are the smartest one because most likely, you aren't.
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I don't ever think I'm the smartest guy in the room. I do quite often know that I've tested more stuff purely for the sake of knowledge than anyone you'll ever meet. See how we did Matt's rig? No one else would do that and double the amount of work it takes and quadruple the time it takes except to learn something and to teach Matt what I knew. The internet is rife with "knowledge" and very little understanding. I have understanding to go with that knowledge because I test it simply to have a defensible position in discussions such as this.
Ever see the 4 hole versus 1 hole injector bullshit? I'm the guy who paid for new ones and swapped them into a good working rig simply to see if there were any merit to the claims and there isn't.
Even see the discussions about well tuned shocks from AllTech Motorsports? I'm the guy who started that many years ago by working with him and PAYING for tunes on the shocks I was outboarding so that I would have a good working knowledge of how shocks can be set up to work on our TJ's and I spent a lot of money dialing in those tunes.
Speaking of outboarding shocks, ever see any discussions about them and why it is a good thing? I'm the guy who invented it.
My helper has a problem breaking u-joints and cracking caps on Spicer U-joints when we wheel in JV. I'm the guy who assisted Revolution with the development of the JK big joint shafts and just today I took delivery of a set I purchased just to find out if the larger u-joint and quality shafts works the way I think they will. We have a test mule with a track record of issues and we are going to fully UNDERSTAND if they do in fact work that way. I paid for them to achieve that level of understanding and they are not going in any rig I own.
I have 6 complete sets of stock size shocks on the shelf that I have put on my test mule TJ Unlimited simply to learn what each has to offer. It has also had 4 different sets of control arms on it, just so I can understand the differences.
Any time any where someone touts a brake pad for the TJ that they claim is the best, I buy them, put them on the test mule with new rotors and go testing. I have purchased and tested at least 20 different sets of pads over the years and tested them because I will understand the differences and use that as best I can.
I have built from scratch 5 different brake kits that I haven't turned into products because the testing showed me that they wouldn't do what I wanted.
I have a proven PSC steering set up for the TJ. I got it to be proven by starting many years ago doing installs. Every single time I had an issue show up, I solved the problem and then that solution got incorporated into the next kit. After doing about 15-20 of them, I got it to where I can do a problem free install and know that it is going to work exactly as I want it to.
Even see the Durango steering gear recommended? I bought one (very high quality rebuilt) when they first came out with that suggestion and installed it just so I would know what it was about. I won't install another one.
Ever see anyone talk about progressive rate springs? Ever see one, a real one progressive rate and not progressive wound? You have, we all have but it isn't the one you think most likely. The factory TJ rear spring is the only progressive rate spring I've ever seen and that is because the wire they wind the spring with is tapered from both end to fatter in the middle. An aftermarket spring made that way would cost several hundred per spring.
Speaking of progressive "rate" springs, you know many folks that take springs over to the guy with the spring dyno to find out if they are really progressive rate and not just progressive wound? I do and have done just that.
Ever see an "abrasion" guard sleeve on a synthetic winch-line? Do you understand that they are not guards nor to they work to save the line when used against the thing you most need them to protect the line from, sharp rocks?
I didn't mean to steam roll you, it is just that this discussion has been beat to death on the internet by those who don't understand a damn thing about springs and suspension and then want to run their mouth like they know what they are talking about and they just don't.
I don't know your background. I don't need to. If you believe that springs affect ride quality on a TJ with all other things being equal, that tells me enough. You have your purpose for forums and that is fine. Mine is to use what I know and understand to correct the stuff from those that think they know.
