It's been awhile since I've had the JLU in the garage. There have been a few things that I've wanted to change and add to it and I have finally taken the time to do some wrenching on it.
First off I bought and downloaded the Mod19RC (RexRacer19 here on RCC) slider covers from Myminifactory. These slider covers cover up the underneath of the stock slider to give it a nice smooth surface. I did have to trim and modify them a tad to fit around the metal rock sliders that are on it. Trimmed and sprayed some flat black paint to get rid of the 3D print look.
Below is a before and after look at the slider covers. You can see how the covers cover up all of the rock snagging struts in the stock sliders.
Secondly, I didn't like how sloppy the shocks were out on the trail. I was getting a ton of body roll and side hilling was a struggle. I upped the shock fluid to 50wt in each shock. While I had them apart, I also re-green slimmed the packing o-rings.
While I was re-installing the shocks, I decided to drop the lower shock mount down to the link mount position. This should help a little with the COG. I'm not exactly sure why I didn't do this when I built the rig. I normally mount the shocks in the lowest position from the start.
I also want to swap out the springs for a stiffer pair. I don't have any on hand currently, but will get some ordered once I figure out what spring rate I'm going to need. At the moment, I have the spring collars turned way down to keep the JLU sitting about where I want it.
As I was testing the suspension out on the basement carpet, I snagged the Club5 Racing exhaust tips on a backward decent and broke both of them off.:evil: They did stick to far out the back and I was planning on trimming them before they got broken. I'll see if I can get them glued back on and shorten them up a bit.
Not pictured because it was late last night and I totally forgot to snap a pic, I flipped the panhard bar around and lengthened it about 5mm. Ever since I installed the straight axles, the panhard was binding and hitting the oil pan underneath. Flipping it over and around and adding some length to it, now it clears when the suspension is compressed all the way.
I've got a few more little things I want to do to this rig so that I can call it complete (for now! They're never really finished!)! More later!!
