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Old 12-16-2015, 11:42 PM
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Haha, I've considered it. I just really love the look of those stock 16" rims, though.

To be honest though, with everything I'm doing I'm set on keeping as many stock parts as possible. I threw out the 4 link idea, I threw out the LS swap idea, I even threw out the 1 ton axle idea simply because if I did all those things... then it's just another Jeep. I'll leave that stuff for the Wrangler guys, but I'm trying to keep as many things that keep my Land Rover a Land Rover. Hell, even if I break my axles and blow up my 4.6 I'll just save up for HD axles and one of those lovely Cannibal 5.0s and do all the same crazy stuff again.
 

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Old 12-17-2015, 08:31 AM
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Honestly, if you lower it 3" and correct the pinion, you may be able to run the rotoflex.

The issue is not torque here, it's the angle. There's a reason so many people that lift D1s need to convert the rears to U-joints, they're not radius arms so the angle increases dramatically.


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Old 12-17-2015, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ZGPhoto

The issue is not torque here, it's the angle. There's a reason so many people that lift D1s need to convert the rears to U-joints, they're not radius arms so the angle increases dramatically.
Forgot about the angle. Yea, most applications I work with, it's not much of an angle.
 
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Old 12-17-2015, 09:41 AM
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Definitely, yea. The angle would be too much once I got a set of castor corrected arms. Right now the angle at the diff is almost the same as stock, but that would change drastically.
 
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Old 12-17-2015, 10:41 AM
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Also I doubt the heat from the engine bay would be helpful to the rotoflex.
 
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Old 12-17-2015, 10:52 AM
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you only need one rotoflex for the entire drivetrain if the cdl is open. if you put 2 rotoflex on you are going to have one noisy jerky vehicle as the driveshafts bounce around like a pendulum
 
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Old 12-17-2015, 11:03 AM
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Huh, I didn't really think about that. Makes perfect sense now that I do.
 
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