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What caster angle do you want?

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Old Jul 2, 2010 | 02:47 AM
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I agree with what Eddie said and +6° is kind of the elastic pants as to where you want to be for caster with the moderate lifts netting around 3" of lift. That would serve the purposes of Dynatrac making a product that services a baseline suspension lifted JK.

I don't have a measurement on what the pinion angle is but I've messed around with adjustable uppers to get things where they minimize driveline vibration.

I think the ideal candidate would be a housing that out of the box utilized a set of stock front arms and provided proper pinion angle and caster. While those days have already past me by, I would have been all on board to buy a D44 front housing to replace a D30 and had bolt on proper pinion angle and caster for a lift netting a 3" lift, say an OME 2" or Teraflex 2.5". A front housing package that did this in part negates what would be achieved by roughly $1,000 in parts for front adjustable arms, and a drive shaft.

For those who run bigger lifts, they would already be at least half way there to setting appropriate pinion angle and caster.

In all, it brings a lot of extra value to the ProRock 44, providing some relief for the person who bought the $5-700 suspension lift without all the goodies to make it really functional.

I definitely applaud the effort of where this is headed and being a candidate for a ProRock 44 I'd be on board should the product come to market.
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Old Jul 2, 2010 | 03:18 AM
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+1 with what JPop said.

The ability to lift and upgrade at the same with the possibility of not needing a new driveshaft and/or adjustable arms would be awesome.
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