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I´ve got a tendancy to set up my rides, so they get where I´m going and back again without breaking or damaging the rides or myself.
As a starting point in reverse engineering, put a stock tire and rim on the old bathroom scale, then a 36 or whatever. Then divide one by the other, you can use this as the common stress facotor on the old drivetrain mechanical components, gear boxes and motor.
Then you figure in the ratio of stock ride highth and the ride highth after lift as a ratio. And factor this as suspension stress.
Then you figure the radius of a stock tire and then the radius of a higher tire and use this as a ratio to figure the redused braking and increased bearing stress (leverage to the front and side).
You add this together and you will get a factor many times the design envelope of the old Jeep.
The common wisdom is to raise the Jeep, then start swapping out parts that break and replacing them with 3/4 ton truck parts. I´ve got a 3/4 ton with a 6" lift (4 suspension and 2 body) with 36" and a 131 inch wheel base, Danna 60 rear, danna 44 front, 4.11`s and a V-8 that is rigth about at the limit of usefullness and driveability. Can´t really picture doing it to a Jeep or anything else, other than for fun, exercise or as a fashion statement.
I left out center of gravity on purpose, but would like to add braking distance. Stopping 38´s from 70 miles an hour has gotta be hair raising.
The idea of trying to walk cross country on stilts because you might step in a hole seems kinda, whatever. Seeing as sooner or later you´re gonna trip, fall or slip, no matter how good your balance, why try it on platform shoes. I wear wadders.
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