I read through a thread below weighing the pros and cons of SOA. I bought this Scout II with some kind of homemade lift, stock springs, long shackles ( 10") and the axles had been rotated. The steering was horrible, the shackles would sway back and forth. Let me add that these were not h-braced heavy duty shackles, but the ones you buy at pep boys or something. The spring perches were homemade out of some square tubing, looks like.
I ordered a 4" lift with the intention of installing it in the factory location under the axle, but my tires wouldn't clear ( 35 x 12.50), so I put it over the axle on the perches that were there. As you can imagine, it is now lifted to the moon. Now, I have a pretty drastic vibration from my driveline. I need some opinion from "guys who have been there, done that". Keep in mind I will do zero rock crawling, just putting around town and the deer woods.
What I am contemplating is buying some smaller tires, putting the 4" lift springs under the axles. This would remove the extension peg from my steering linkage that keeps coming loose, take out the drastic ujoint angles, and I feel just be less future problems as it will be closer to "stock". The main drawback of this is that it appears the front axle ends were cut/rotated and re-welded, so that would have to be fixed.
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I have read about replacing one end of the driveshaft with a cv joint. Can this be done at a competent driveshaft place, or is it a specialty? I also heard mentioned some other type of coupling, but I can't remember what it was called ( camden joint?)
like I said, I am not going for jacked up, extreme off road. It is up now, and I don't mind it being there, but I want to obviously spend the least $$. Cv joints vs. Axle re-cutting. Either way, I'm going to have to pay someone.
I ordered a 4" lift with the intention of installing it in the factory location under the axle, but my tires wouldn't clear ( 35 x 12.50), so I put it over the axle on the perches that were there. As you can imagine, it is now lifted to the moon. Now, I have a pretty drastic vibration from my driveline. I need some opinion from "guys who have been there, done that". Keep in mind I will do zero rock crawling, just putting around town and the deer woods.
What I am contemplating is buying some smaller tires, putting the 4" lift springs under the axles. This would remove the extension peg from my steering linkage that keeps coming loose, take out the drastic ujoint angles, and I feel just be less future problems as it will be closer to "stock". The main drawback of this is that it appears the front axle ends were cut/rotated and re-welded, so that would have to be fixed.
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I have read about replacing one end of the driveshaft with a cv joint. Can this be done at a competent driveshaft place, or is it a specialty? I also heard mentioned some other type of coupling, but I can't remember what it was called ( camden joint?)
like I said, I am not going for jacked up, extreme off road. It is up now, and I don't mind it being there, but I want to obviously spend the least $$. Cv joints vs. Axle re-cutting. Either way, I'm going to have to pay someone.
