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For those that don't lurk the so cal thread. Fixed my locker. Wasn't that bad but I knew the copper was going to have be replaced anyway so I just fixed with an ARB line kit. Turned out I just popped the line out of the bulk head and likely forgot the o ring originally when I put it in the new housing. We'll see if the new orientation lasts longer, I left a ton of clearance.

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@Airdog came over with his nitrogen tank and we checked my shocks.

Rear were at 130 so we bumped them to 170, front passenger was 120, front driver was 105. So we bumped those up too. I'll remount my resis in a few and take it for a drive. See if that stiffened things up and fixed the handling.
 

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What a difference some nitrogen can make. Might be a little too high now, but I won't know until I find dirt. Around town on dips and speed bumps it's noticeably stiffer. ADS recommended 150 when I called them, but I'm assuming that's stock weight since they didn't ask about bumpers. They were definitely way too soft to begin with comparing their recommendation vs actual psi.
 

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Been a minute since I've updated.

I've got the new lower links and upper links on. I'm happy with my pinion angle and I'm barely touching my gas skid. I'll have to address that completely at a later date.

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Replaced my rear 3" bump extension and wheelers bumps with @Plastics Guy bumps. Gained me an easy inch of up travel which means I have to finish cutting up the rear to fit the 315s. I expect I'll be chewing up my tires a tad this weekend but it'll be mostly fire road.

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No pics, but since I had them and the 400 lb rear coils still weren't handling the rear weight the way I wanted, I stuffed 1.5" coil spacers in. I won't be as fully loaded as I usually am this weekend so we'll see how that handles dirt. Also fixed my rear abs wire while I was at it.

Working on putting my front bumps in this morning while doing pre trip maintenance and bolt checking. Found my rear bolt on my front diff was a tad loose, so loctite and torque wrench came out for that. Also found a few of my front bumper bolts were loose, so fixed that and fixed two of my mounting bolts that were never properly wrenched in. No more play in the front bumper. That should make @Tetten happy since he likes to walk around my rig looking for things that need help. Haha.
 

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Front bumps are on. If anyone ever says buy wheelers super bumps tell them to fuck off. Took me 10 mins to get the fucking allan bolt out without dropping my LCA out of the way (I should have done it when I was doing ball joints but it slipped my mind) and it took me a whole minute to bolt the durobumps back up. That alone is worth the money.

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