daily doubler build

[merch]

whew! that took like 4 hrs to read this post! great read,nice truck,congrats on UA,love the build!

 

[Bray D]

whew! that took like 4 hrs to read this post! great read,nice truck,congrats on UA,love the build!

Thanks! It's been quite the journey.

We loaded up the rig once again and headed to Chicago on the 4th. We went to a concert and saw fireworks all over the city from our room on the 30th floor. It was awesome.

Then we woke up Saturday morning and headed to the Cliffs in Marseilles on the way home.

We beat on the Ranger pretty good. Multiple single low 2nd gear hill climb attempts. We ran around solo for the majority of the day, but we ran into a fun group in the afternoon. One of the guys flopped coming down into this ditch. Passenger side tire caught a tree and sent him over on his driver's side door.

I winched him over and he was good to go. Fired it up and drove off of the trail.

All in all it was a good day. We aired up and made it home by 8p.

 

[RangerSVT]

Looks like a good wheeling spot. Have you come across a bad wheeling spot yet? Lol

SVT

 

[Bray D]

If my diffs are locked and I'm in 4low, it's a good wheelin' spot.

 

[RockRanger]

What axle shafts are you running in the front 44? Would you do them again or go a different route?

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[Bray D]

Yukon chromos with Spicer 760 joints. I've broken a long side inner, a stub shaft, and wasted the passenger side shafts/joints. I attribute the last one to a lesser joint though (Alloy USA X-joint. The 760's haven't failed me yet).

It depends entirely on driving style though. I wouldn't expect the front end to hold up if I was a throttle jockey. I crawl everything if I can. If not, I'm not afraid to give it the necessary throttle to get up an obstacle, but I'm not going to bounce it off the rev limiter trying to make a climb. If it takes that much, I have an inadequate vehicle for that obstacle.

Looking back, they've treated me well, but I wouldn't mind having a set of RCV's. They'd be smoother ,stronger, and I wouldn't even carry spares. I keep a complete set of replacement front shafts with me when I go on long trips.

 

[Josh40601]

Wow. Never thought you were running 760 joints.

I love the Yukon shafts and the super joints. So much that once the ranger is back, I'm putting them in it as well. 1/3 the price (even at wholesale) of RCV, and after all the abuse myself and the PO of SGT Ex put them through, they have earned my respect

 

[Bray D]

The shafts do well, but my two failures were strictly due to the shafts. The joints remained in tact.

I'd have to go back through my own thread to know for sure, but I think I was just rebuilding my front end and decided to go with the slightly more expensive Alloy USA joints because they were greasable (zerks on caps; solid crosses). I've replaced a few 760s because they've dried up (mud bogs are hard on joints). The first serious trip on the Alloy USA joints left me replacing shafts/joints in the driveway of the cabin at FlatNasty. I've run the 760s ever since, and don't plan to switch to a different joint anytime in the near future.

 

[Josh40601]

Good to know.

 

[RockRanger]

I have busted 5 stock shafts and 3 hubs. Time to upgrade the front end and am trying to decide which way to go. A 60 is out of budget right now.

 

[PlumCrazy]

Yukon shafts and 760s have done well for me as well. Only twisted the ears on one shaft when the ujoint cross snapped.
I grenaded my first Warn premium this weekend.

With stock shafts and 760s I'd pop a shaft twice every trip out in rocks.

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[Josh40601]

Good to know.

 

[Bray D]

I've grenaded a warm premium too. Broke every cog in the thing. Only happened once though.

I thought my hubs would be the fuse in my front end, but it seems all of the components are sized pretty well relative to each other.

For what it's worth, I never ran stock shafts. I built it with Yukons from the start, and I've been running this same setup since 2009.

 

[PlumCrazy]

^I thought the same thing about hubs...but I was wrong lol.

When I broke one, I shattered every component in the damn thing too.lol

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[Bray D]

Kage has me on a video kick. I threw together a compilation from the Cliffs trip during the weekend of the 4th. No music, just engine sounds, so put on your favorite tunes and enjoy 8 minutes and 50 seconds of first person wheelin'.

There's some boring spots, but there's also a couple slick climbs that make for good viewing. I wish we had video outside the truck; we were taking some pretty big hits at times.

Link to Vid

I'll get better with the video thing, but this one will do for this trip.