I-Beam Flip?
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two wheel drives are funner off road cause it takes more skill to navigate the terrain, ive had 4wd and 2wd and outta both id run a 2wd off road any day, less mechanical breakage, more fun, and if you get stuck thats what a winch is for, a friend of mine swears by 2wds with 235s on the front and 33s on the back. i personally gotta agree with him ive only seen him get stuck one time and that was due to him slowing down when he should have gunned it. a 4wd drive may get through it quicker but with a 2wd you dont have to worrie about blowing the front diff out or snapping the front shaft.
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Thank you finally somebody understands that just because you have a 2wd doesn't mean that it has to be a street machine. Mine never has been nor ever will. So thanks for someone finally speaking some truth about 2wds
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I'm not positive on the camber being 0 but it's worht a shot. As for the caster - yup you would have to flip the beam sides. The thing to worry about with this is the fact the end of one of the beams is jogged a bit to correct the offset front to back of the beam hangers.
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I'm not positive on the camber being 0 but it's worht a shot. As for the caster - yup you would have to flip the beam sides. The thing to worry about with this is the fact the end of one of the beams is jogged a bit to correct the offset front to back of the beam hangers.
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I'll look tomorrow and see. That and get a rough est. on the lift amount.
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i laid under my truck for about 2 hours the other day looking at this and from what i can tell both beams look like they both may bend back toward the rear wheels slightly but as far as flipping them i dont see it changing much besides the camber. some one on here said to take the truck after your done to a big rig shop and they can bend the beams slightly to fix your camber problem.
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If you're gonna do that why not just run a lift coil and have the big rig shop bend to correct the camber after that?
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Would that work? How much lift do you think one could have and still have it corrected?
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yes it would work. That's what lifts like the one from autofab are.
They can correct for whatever lift you want - but 5" of lift narrows the trackwidth 7/8" - and I wouldn't go much more than that.
They can correct for whatever lift you want - but 5" of lift narrows the trackwidth 7/8" - and I wouldn't go much more than that.
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I am thinking that financially it may be better to just go with AutoFab kit. When you get lift springs, change out 33 yr old king pins and get beams bent for alignment, probably will be in the area of the $750 that the kit costs. Is this flawed thinking?
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If you are close enough by to do that then yeah. I assume you have looked at the prices on that stuff though - right?
Remember - you'll have a core charge for the beams and shipping this stuff is $$
Remember - you'll have a core charge for the beams and shipping this stuff is $$