Okay, after getting Moby back home, I found that his rear axle was just sitting at about 1/4" more out to the passenger side. I then adjusted his rear track bar so that his axle will be sitting approximately 1/2" out to the driver side and then took him back out to flex him out. As you can see, this is full droop on the driver side and stuff on the passenger side. This is where we were having problems before but with the track bar adjustment and removal of the one gas tank skid bolt, all is good now - no more driveshaft contact.
So, this is where we were most concerned - full stuff. Being that we no longer were running bump stop extensions, there was a very real possibility that we'd slash the tread of our tires when crossed up. Mel had said that running 500 springs should prevent that from happening and what a surprise, he was right.
Pushing further ahead to cross Moby up the other way showed us that things were still good.
As you can see, Moby's limiting strap is taught and if you can believe it, his air bump isn't even making contact with the axle.
Upward resistance is all being done by the heavy spring rate - no rubbing.
Now, I should note that what you're seeing in this pics are static shots of opposing flex. This is kind of what you would see if you were to ramp your Jeep on one of those trailers with table jacks. This is NOT the same thing as what you would see when MOVING through an obstacle where things like force, gravity and inertia are added into the equation. With me taking on something like this obstacle like normally would on a trail run, the rear did stuff more and enough to the point where the driveshaft did still make just a bit of contact but down the smooth side and not to a point where I'm concerned. Also, the tread got real close to the rear corner of the wheel well but it did not touch. Of course, these are a worn set of Cooper STT Pros and a new set might reveal a different result.
Time to get more work done before the JKX
So, this is where we were most concerned - full stuff. Being that we no longer were running bump stop extensions, there was a very real possibility that we'd slash the tread of our tires when crossed up. Mel had said that running 500 springs should prevent that from happening and what a surprise, he was right.
Pushing further ahead to cross Moby up the other way showed us that things were still good.
As you can see, Moby's limiting strap is taught and if you can believe it, his air bump isn't even making contact with the axle.
Upward resistance is all being done by the heavy spring rate - no rubbing.
Now, I should note that what you're seeing in this pics are static shots of opposing flex. This is kind of what you would see if you were to ramp your Jeep on one of those trailers with table jacks. This is NOT the same thing as what you would see when MOVING through an obstacle where things like force, gravity and inertia are added into the equation. With me taking on something like this obstacle like normally would on a trail run, the rear did stuff more and enough to the point where the driveshaft did still make just a bit of contact but down the smooth side and not to a point where I'm concerned. Also, the tread got real close to the rear corner of the wheel well but it did not touch. Of course, these are a worn set of Cooper STT Pros and a new set might reveal a different result.
Time to get more work done before the JKX
