what would yall think if....

[4.0B2]

let me start with the little background story..

we have a guy from rough country on my local forum (midsouthjeeps).. since he worked there i decided to ask some questions about their lift kit for the ttb axles.. he listened, did some digging, and is now stirring the pot at RC.

i simply asked why were the coils so stiff and do they know about the drop plate causing issues like busted diffs. his reply was lets look into it and i know that the drop plate has been redesigned for clearance issues, is it still causing problems. he even came over here to TRS to look at the problem which caused him to have more questions for me since he is not a ttb owner. he looked it up, the RC coil springs have a 445 ppi (10 lbs shy of an f250 superduty ) the stock b2 coil is 350ish. then we started talking about how the drop plate sucks for swapping to a d35 axle like many of us ttb guys do

enough background---
what would yall think if Rough country did redesign their lift to have softer springs and maybe an option to get a real drop bracket instead of a drop plate. i know the beauty of the RC lift is the price... so hopefully it doesn't affect the price to much.

but regardless, we've got a guy stirring the pot at RC to see if anything could be done.


regardless-- rough country has awesome customer service, and its full of really decent nice people.

 

[shane96ranger]

I tried and can't, but somebody needs to rep Ben reeeaaal good. I think this is a job where only someone like RSH will do it justice.

Nice work man. Also, nice work by the employee moving the concerns up the ladder.

EDIT: I'm going to go spread some rep and come back and see if I can't give you some lovin' (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!)

 

[countryboy]

rep given and really deserved

 

[4.0B2]

thanks guys.

it started off as a simple question.. but this certain RC employee took my concern and ran with it. he even came over here and look at "the people's" statements about RC... i think it concerned them about how fast they were marked off the list when ttb guys are looking for lifts for their trucks.. b/c of something they could fix so easily. all i did was ask... the employee at RC was the one that ran w/ it that made it lead to this. but he is talking to the people above his head..

it may not lead to anything.. but i'm gonna stay in contact with him.. and he's said he would keep updating me on anything he found out.


if this does lead to a better lift kit and i find out about it, i'm gonna whore it everywhere for the ttb guys.

 

[adsm08]

I tried and can't, but somebody needs to rep Ben reeeaaal good. I think this is a job where only someone like RSH will do it justice.

Nice work man. Also, nice work by the employee moving the concerns up the ladder.

EDIT: I'm going to go spread some rep and come back and see if I can't give you some lovin' (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!)

rep given and really deserved

I got him too. I'm handing out one more point than RSH these days too.

Now I just gotta get more posts than him.

 

[4.0B2]

hahaha yeah, good luck on that post count..

i also offered a rig for testing a new lift kit if it happened before my b2 gets its xj coils and stuff. lol.

if its after, i'm sure a test rig would be easy to find! lol

 

[adsm08]

Yeah, I have one or two that could be volunteered up for it. Don't have any plans to lift either of them, but if it was for a good cause I guess I could bring myself to lift the Ranger.

 

[4.0B2]

well they are looking into the spring rate issue... they are looking to do softer springs. something closer to stock probably. sure, its not xj spring rates, but stock ppi is better than what they offer now...

as far as the brackets, he doesn't know... i don't figure that will go anywhere b/c they wanna keep the price down i'm sure.

 

[4x4junkie]

350PPI would definitely be better than Skyjacker's @ 410 or so (6/8") or 450 (4").

They should look into providing a proper pitman arm for it at the same time (like most, theirs is 2 inches too short for a 4" lift).

That's cool they're at least examining the issue though. We need some better suspension options available for sure (even though SJ and JD are usually considered best of what's out there, they're still far from perfect).

 

[wrecking-crew]

I think my (soon to be) BroncoII would enjoy that. Well, if I get my project done.

 

[greasemonkey6886]

Repped!! Good job man. Let us know how it turns out one way or the other.

 

[4.0B2]

350PPI would definitely be better than Skyjacker's @ 410 or so (6/8") or 450 (4").

They should look into providing a proper pitman arm for it at the same time (like most, theirs is 2 inches too short for a 4" lift).

That's cool they're at least examining the issue though. We need some better suspension options available for sure (even though SJ and JD are usually considered best of what's out there, they're still far from perfect).

I did not even think about the pitman arm but I completely agree. Gonna message him about that to. See what's said. Like I said; idk if anything will happen. But I'm glad that they take the time to listen and look at our thoughts and review them. Hopefully it goes somewhere.

Thanks for the rep guys! I'm gonna keep in touch with him and keep y'all updated.