Add another truck to the hoop army

[Maxvdub62]

Here are some pics. I'll take better pics once I get the 8'' co's in. You can see in one of the pics how much additional droop I will have once I get the 8'' co's.

[mike]

[Inyourface1650]

Originally Posted by Mainerunr

so how hard are you beating on your trucks to need hoops? I mean the desert thing looks like an absolute blast but you guys seem like you break more than everyone else combined.

trees and rocks around here tend to keep things moving a lot slower.

Its hard on stuff dude, really really hard on stuff. We have some open desert here that I love to open up on, and I have been afraid I have blown the front shocks a couple of times due to whoops and small jumps.

Rock crawling you generally do about...oh...4 mph, and you as an engineer can understand the forces involved here.
Now imagine the moment on the suspension when you drop a 4500lb vehicle doing 70MPH even 1 foot and it hits the ground. The stresses are HUGE. Shocks cycle several hundred times a minute, and really gets em hot.

But.....there is almost no better way to get the adrenaline going.

One helluva rush

[Mainerunr]

Originally Posted by Inyourface1650

Its hard on stuff dude, really really hard on stuff. We have some open desert here that I love to open up on, and I have been afraid I have blown the front shocks a couple of times due to whoops and small jumps.

Rock crawling you generally do about...oh...4 mph, and you as an engineer can understand the forces involved here.
Now imagine the moment on the suspension when you drop a 4500lb vehicle doing 70MPH even 1 foot and it hits the ground. The stresses are HUGE. Shocks cycle several hundred times a minute, and really gets em hot.

But.....there is almost no better way to get the adrenaline going.

One helluva rush

yeah, I do understand the difference in forces and I'm sure its absolutely wild.

[Nizmo4X2]

Nice!!!!!