35s on my Ex

[4x4junkie]

Good coils? I think the coils I have are fine. I've hit every speed bump and railroad crossing at speed and they have soaked them up like they were nothing. I know they will settle a bit but when it rolled out of the shop it measured at 6.25 inches of lift.

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I was simply speaking of coils that would allow the suspension to actually FLEX a little offroad. Their RBV TTB coils are like most... Too stiff for flexing. Having the dual-mount like that and a set of lower seats available leads me to think they might be gearing up to release some TTB kits that would make use of better EB coils.
Hopefully they've got a good grasp on the steering though, as that by itself will make the difference between a warrior to fight the J00ps with, and something that's going to put you all over the road.

 

[jims89broncoII]

seems to me like they need someone to do tech support and take phone orders. haha

 

[Mechanickid]

I await the release patiently.

 

[wahlstrom1]

I'd be up for a set of bolt on better upper coil buckets.....IF I wasn't going to push my axle ahead 2". But, it's a VERY good thing to have developed for our RBV market.

 

[97fordrunner]

I thinks its great if they get into SAS swap kits as long as they don't charge big $$$ for it like other places do, I mean when you can do it with a little elbow grease and junk yard parts they are gonna have to try and be competitive. But it is very encouraging that there is a company out there doing some R & D on anything RBV.

 

[ThatGuy]

Having the dual-mount like that and a set of lower seats available leads me to think they might be gearing up to release some TTB kits that would make use of better EB coils.

All you would need to do is open one of the holes up to a 3/4" hole. Remove the Factory bolt/stud for the coil retainer. put a spacer on top of the rad arm tab to raise the bucket to clear the knuckle. About 1.5" Replace with a 3/4" bolt of the proper length to not protrude too far past the nut in the beam.

You mean like this?

 

[jims89broncoII]

looks good man!

 

[CopyKat]

You mean like this?

Yup. But the spacer needs to be bigger in diameter. That's going to put alot of leverage on the bolt. Needs to be atleast 3" or more in diameter.

 

[ThatGuy]

All I had laying around was the 2" tube. That's why I used the large washer on the bottom to give it a bigger footprint. It's only about 1 3/4" high so I doubt it'd put too much stress on a grade 8 bolt. For the most part all the force will be straight down. I've seen coils spaced a lot higher with no problems. If I can get my hands on some stock EB coils I'll swap em out and give it a try.

 

[jims89broncoII]

so those coil buckets you fabbed up requiers no change between a rbv coil and a eb coil? just swap and go?

 

[ThatGuy]

The Duff coil buckets will accept either ranger coils or EB coils. To run RBV coils you slap it in and throw a keeper on it. To run EB coils on a RBV you slap it in with a different keeper and I fabbed the lower retainers to mount to the TTB.
The reality behind it is running the same coil bucket with the TTB lift and then if you do a SAS you can keep the same bucket and run EB coils on a 44 with the stock (or HD Duff) lower retainers.

Follow me?

 

[jims89broncoII]

got ya. i knew the duff buckets accepted both rbv or eb coils. i wasnt clear about the lower retainer.

 

[ThatGuy]

Lower retainer was all me. I don't believe Duff has anything like that. I don't really know what their plans are yet for the TTB/SAS swap. I'll find out soon enough and let yall know.

 

[jims89broncoII]

did you get a chance to test out the lift this weekend?

 

[ThatGuy]

Why yes I did. Got to go snow wheeling Sat. morning. Rode great. 2 things I noticed though, that mofo' is long as all get out, and I will be locked by this weekend. Had to squeeze around a few tight turns by doing 3 point turns and ended up having to bomb up over something I would have really liked to crawl instead. Suspension worked great, I was by myself so I didn't get any pix but maybe this weekend????
Another thing was my auto hub on the drivers side popped quite a bit. Never while under load but when I was just easing down the trail you'd think I was making popcorn. I'm not too worried about it because it worked and I'll be swapping front ends before too long.