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SPOA, cheap? Ha!
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>spring-over or 'SPOA" for spring over axle. normally the axles are set on top
>of the springs. A popular, cheap idea for more lift is to take the axles and
>put them under the springs but it takes some work and some know how to
>accomplish it.
Cheap? Ha!
Ok, to be fair, the springover itself wasn't all that expensive. But those
big tires will really wander if you don't twist the knuckles for caster,
and you really should get CV driveshafts, and since you need longer
shocks anyway you might as well get RS9000s, and you really should get
new 5/8" u-bolts while you're at it, and a dana 44 won't handle those
35's so you really need to build up a narrowed dana 60, and you need
lower gears so you might as well install detroit lockers at the same
time, and since you need to swap the transfer case yokes for the CV
driveshafts it's a good time to swap in a dana 300, and you might as
well put a 4:1 kit into the dana 300 before you swap it in, and you
probably should do a rear disk brake conversion while you're at it,
and, and, and ...
rcleavin@domain.elided San Diego, CA
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