about new UCA's

[JoeBob]

hey everyone.. this guy is selling his calmini UCA's and torsion bars and ive been talking to him about it. He suggests that i dont want the full 3" lift from the UCA's and that i might just want to get the torsion bars and crank them up a little and his reasoning is partly because he didnt like the full 3" of lift. He said that the lift puts the UCA's too close to the bump stops and causes loss of traction when driving on bumpy rocks and such... do you guys think that it is worth the loss of traction to have the higher lift??

 

thx

joebob

[Casey.T]

You can crank the new t-bars quite abit... I have about 1.5" of clearance on the stock bump stops, and have not encountered a loss of traction due to anything other than.... cant believe im going to type this.... STUPIDITY

 

The UCA's correct the angle on the Ball Joint so that you can lift it, via adjusting the t-bars.

 

Get them, get grease zerk's installed on them (unless you like Squeaks), I still need to do that... and play with your ride heigth....

 

At the end of this years hunting season I may actully drop my front end 1/2"

[JoeBob]

so is it actually the torsion bars that do the height adjusting? and the UCA's just provide correct ball joint angles so that it doesnt put pressure on it the wrong way right?

 

soooooo if i dont want to replace parts i should get both the T bars and the UCA's so i have correct ball join angles so things wont wear down?

Edited October 20, 2006 by JoeBob

[Casey.T]

I would have to say Yes...

 

the calmini t-bars have a 30% higher spring rate, so instead of having 2.03" showing on the adjusting bolt provided you put it back in at the same angle they came out... you will have about 1.2" for the same amount of lift, the front end will also be stiffer... I had to play with mine to make sure the adjusting bolts were recessed inside the crossmember.... There are some pictures of it on here some where... just over 1 year ago...

[JoeBob]

ok.. so how necessary is it to get the new UCA's?

[Casey.T]

if your going to be lifting the front above the stock ride heigth I would recomend aftermarket UCA... Do a Search on UCA -bounce-

[JoeBob]

ok sounds good ill get both ^^ thx a lot