EVO Bolt-On CO questions

I had considered doing COs in the rear and not up front when I stretch the wife's Jeep, but honestly it is just me cutting corners because the fabrication is easier. I will likely just keep it on springs but if I do go COs I will have to do the front too. I don't think my OCD could deal with them being different ;)
 
wayoflife said:
You do know that if you just do one side and not the other at the same time, your ride off road will suck, right? What will happen is that your front end will be able to take hits so much faster and so much more comfortably that your rear end will constantly bottom out. While I have not seen anyone purposefully do this with bolt-on coil overs, I have known a few guys who tried doing this early on with the original EVO weld in coil overs up front and coils in the rear and it didn't take long for the guys in question to find the money to convert the rear to coil overs to match. If it were me, I would just wait till you can afford to do things RIGHT. But hey, it's your Jeep and your money and really, what would I know.
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I did not know. Thank you very much for the insight! I just figured that since they sell them separately you could do them separately with minimal draw backs. Guess not.
 
Havoc40 said:
Slight derail, didn't feel the need to start a new thread

Noroad and others that live in the salt belt...how do you or plan to keep corosion down during the winter months? I'm about to install coilovers myself and would like to keep these things in decent shape. I was thinking just soak them every week with marvel and WD.
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You mean you dont want this to happen?

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I soaked them weekly with WD and tried other stuff. So I now have a set of winter coils (ie ones shown) and will be replacing them all! Next winter I will put them back in. My one buddy uses the stuff they use on airplanes and other heavy industrial equipment, maybe I'll try that next year. Only other solution is don't drive it!
 
noroad said:
ahhhhhhhhhh my arch nemesis rust
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Oh how I love living in the rust belt. Can't own anything nice for more than a few months LOL. My favorite is a 10 min job that takes 4 hours because you cant get any of the dang bolts loose! It is what it is...
 
13_gecko_rubi said:
Oh how I love living in the rust belt. Can't own anything nice for more than a few months LOL. My favorite is a 10 min job that takes 4 hours because you cant get any of the dang bolts loose! It is what it is...
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this is why we cant have nice things!
 
Lol, wow!! That's crazy that it rusted that much in such little time. Guess I don't have to worry about that in Arizona 😂
 
13_gecko_rubi said:
You mean you dont want this to happen?

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I soaked them weekly with WD and tried other stuff. So I now have a set of winter coils (ie ones shown) and will be replacing them all! Next winter I will put them back in. My one buddy uses the stuff they use on airplanes and other heavy industrial equipment, maybe I'll try that next year. Only other solution is don't drive it!
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Good lord! :grayno:
 
Well shit...lol. That's exactly what I don't want to see next March. Might have to call the rep for our chemical supplier tomorrow. See if he has any recommendations.

Will keep ya posted if I come up with something interesting. The guy owes me some "samples" anyway :D

Update: I'm going to get some samples of Castrol Rustilo and Chemetall Antox. The Antox should also clean up the CO body if you want to try it 13_gecko_rubi
 
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