Bucking Bronco
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- Location
- Layton
Ultra ghetto DIY Limit Strap idea
- Thread starter Zombie
- Start date
One thing to keep in mind....early on in my rear-winch experience, I'd suck the rear down a LOT when coming down nastyness. If you drop off something that will pick the rear end up and make you need to punch the gas to keep it upright, make sure you leave yourself some compression travel for the landing. I bent chassis tubes and hurt my back a little when the rear landed like that after being sucked down really far. After that, I'd just tension the rope a little, so it basically just held the rear where level ride height would be, give or take.
Might be common sense, but apparently I didn't think about it at the time--so now I'm mentioning it.
One thing to keep in mind....early on in my rear-winch experience, I'd suck the rear down a LOT when coming down nastyness. If you drop off something that will pick the rear end up and make you need to punch the gas to keep it upright, make sure you leave yourself some compression travel for the landing. I bent chassis tubes and hurt my back a little when the rear landed like that after being sucked down really far. After that, I'd just tension the rope a little, so it basically just held the rear where level ride height would be, give or take.
Might be common sense, but apparently I didn't think about it at the time--so now I'm mentioning it.
Good point. And an important safty lesson. Since I have 18" travel air shocks on the back, at ride height I have about 8" up travel. So it is darn near impossible for me to compress them all the way with the winch. I guess I could, but it would look and ride weird.
Bucking Bronco
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- Location
- Layton
Well since I said I would be back to tell you all how much damage was caused by being cheap Here I am
At EJS I broke the front cable/limit strap which caused the brake line to rip in half and ripped the shock apart and bent it.
Damage
Shock $209.00
brake line $17.00
original strap $7.00
EST tax $15.00
Total loss for saving $18.00 is $-248.00
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- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
hmm not so bueno
Yes I do.
solidfrontaxle
Toyota jihad
- Location
- Casper, Wyoming
What about old winch cable as a limiting strap? Its good for over 10k and I'm sure people have hundreds of feet of it lying around when they switched to synthetic...
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
Ya but I saved like $18.00
I am sorry to hear that, man, but that is some funny postage, yo.
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
- Location
- Price, Utah
I always try and remind myself how expensive it can be to save money.
Bucking Bronco
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- Location
- Layton
I should have known it was going to break as just the day before Meat said your cables seem to be working pretty good.
And I guess they were till they broke. Though the cable did not actually break it came out of the end where it is clamped in.
And I guess they were till they broke. Though the cable did not actually break it came out of the end where it is clamped in.
Zombie
Random Dead Guy
- Location
- Sandy Utah
Hm... looks like it'll be real limiting straps for me then.
Thanks for the follow up.
Thanks for the follow up.
I believe it was "seem to be working" and I was making a "we're all gunna die" face.
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
I think that's actually much closer to real life. Seems like we talked about those at the DATC show too LOL
ps I'd like my bolt back out of your rear "limit strap" hahahahah
ps I'd like my bolt back out of your rear "limit strap" hahahahah
Bucking Bronco
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- Layton
LOL
I am sure meat said it like that as I probably was not looking at him to get the full effect.
And your stud got replaced with some Grade 8 Bling so you can have it back anytime (and by anytime I mean I don't know where it is at)
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
hahah eeeeexcellent, you're literally golden now