Hey everyone, I have a very light 2 door with a 2.5" lift with 315/75/16 mt's on aftermarket wheels with 4.5" bs. I have read all I can find about people bending their c's. My question is has anyone bent their c's on a light 2 door. I have stock bumpers, soft top and no armor, so I would like any first hand accounts of people with 2 doors with bent c's. Or Are all the bent c's on heavy 4 doors? If you did bend yours on a 2 door please post the circumstances in which you bent them, is your jeep heavy, light, where you beating on it or babying it. I would like to hold off on these for a while if I could. So much to buy and so little money. Anyway thanks for any info I can get.
I can't tell from this post if a "bent c" is a mod you're supposed to do to your Jeep, or a failure of some part from abusive use.
If the former, by all means, I'll have to get my c's bent as soon as my Wrangler comes in. Anybody know a good shop in metro-Atlanta that can bend 'em?
Wheeled an 07 2 door on 35's with lots of heavy stuff for years and never bent an axle.
Broke a few u-joints but that's ok.
That one had the smaller D30 front axle too.
Unless your jumping dunes in the desert or abusing it I wouldn't sweat it.
Do it when you can afford to. Until then use 4Lo and common sense on the trail.
yeah - c-gussets can be welded on to an axle while the axle is on the vehicle. definitely want a good welder though. if they spend too much time heating up the axle - you'll cook the ball joints... which will lead to premature failure.
some companies that make good c-gussets:
poly performance (synergy)
teraflex
as has been said - they are relatively inexpensive and great insurance...
I was going to go C gussets and sleeves but ended up with C gussets and an Artec truss today. I figured a truss was a bit better than sleeves. Of course, I still have 32s...lift is still being furiously debated in my head.
I see the parts are cheap, what is a good labor rate for this mod? I'm not a welder and wouldn't know how long this should take and don't want to get hosed.
$600 is a bit high, i been shopping around for the past month and for a 4x4 shop $450 parts & labor is about the going rate. since i already had the parts i got a mobil welder coming out in 2 days when i do the lift to weld on the c gussets and lca skids for $150. i'm gonna have it apart anyway and replacing ball joints anyway. makes sense to do it that way at least for me any way.
if your gonna do it. do it the best way. truss is better than sleeves and only sleeves i know that will let you upgrade to 35 spine shafts are the nitro brand.
I pulled my axle and had a friend help me with the welding cause i was still learning.
EVO and Synergy gussets are very different from the Teraflex gussets. The first two are like the ones above (bracing from the sides a bit more) while the TF is a solid piece that goes along the middle. I wonder why they do it so differently.
the TF gusset is more of an I-beam, and I believe as strong or stronger than the synergy gussets. not knocking the synergy stuff, just more of a boxed c...
I figure for the price difference of just the TF uppers vs. the whole Synergy kit, I might as well do it all while I'm at it. If the TF gussets are that much stronger, I may just go with theirs (uppers and lowers). Really don't want to sleeve or add the weight of a truss...in my mind, it unnecessary for the kind of wheeling I do (nothing very extreme) and should safely see me up to 37's if I go that big.
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