Author Topic: Does Everyone Need A Solid Axle? (Read 16012 times)

yotamckimboy4x4 · « **Reply #60 on:** Dec 24, 2006, 09:35:17 PM »

i would half way agree with you, i agree with the whole learn how to wheel your rig first becuase thats what i did but some there are the so called " younger crowd " out there who want to start off on the right foot and not break everything on the ifs. and when you say the "youngins" need to learn to drive there ifs its makes it seem like you are the best wheeler and that all the " youngins" cant wheel at all. i have some buddies who started with solid axels and are doing fine but i was one that started with ifs cus thats wat i had. so i half way agree with you and see some of the points you are making.

Let's ponder this question. Does everyone really need a solid axle rig? The reason i bring this topic up is we get a lot of people on this board and other boards. They see our rigs and go "yeah i want a solid axle to". But really does everyone need it? I'm going to say no. A lot of people think they need it but they don't, there ifs will work fine. It seems its a lot of the younger crowd; like 16 just getting there license. There just learning to drive and the first thing they want to do is do an sas....why? learn to wheel your rig first! I wheeled the piss out of my ifs then upgraded. The point I'm trying to make is everybody doesn't need a solid axle. you can build a nice trail truck that is ifs. lockers front and rear and a crawler and you have a nice rig. so my little rant it get to know your rig first. wheel it as is for awhile then decide if you really need a solid axle. just my little rant and

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logan · « **Reply #61 on:** Dec 24, 2006, 09:43:18 PM »

well,i guess i can get in on this,i dont really think that everyone needs to sas there stuff,my mom's bone stock tacoma is fun enough,i wouldnt know about an ifs truck though,i started w/a solid axle,and i'm learning what i can and cant do with it,so more or less,wheel what you got until you find a default in it,thats my vote

Shamb · « **Reply #62 on:** Dec 24, 2006, 10:00:36 PM »

blackdiamond · « **Reply #63 on:** Dec 25, 2006, 12:20:21 PM »

My wife might be unhappy if I were to SAS the Tundra.

6.72:1 · « **Reply #64 on:** Dec 25, 2006, 01:10:41 PM »

Quote from: blackdiamond on Dec 25, 2006, 12:20:21 PM

My wife might be unhappy if I were to SAS the Tundra.

Yeah, but it would be glorious.

79coyotefrg · « **Reply #65 on:** Dec 25, 2006, 02:58:28 PM »

Quote from: 6.72:1 on Dec 25, 2006, 01:10:41 PM

Yeah, but it would be glorious.

especially if you put rockwells and some 425-65-22.5's under it

6.72:1 · « **Reply #66 on:** Dec 25, 2006, 04:48:51 PM »

Quote from: 79Coyotefrg on Dec 25, 2006, 02:58:28 PM

especially if you put rockwells and some 425-65-22.5's under it

Especially glorious. Haha....

Stinky · « **Reply #67 on:** Dec 26, 2006, 02:40:37 PM »

ya, ill give my ifs some props(wigger talk), it went places that impressed me, and if ure 16, ifs is more of an "amatuer" LOOK n it makes "youngins" feel like a girl thingy...yet it doesn't, if u pregnant dog about havin ifs n dont do anything, you in turn are a raging girl thingy...ya being able to say u have a sas'ed truck is cool...thats about ALL it is if u dont wheel it to the point of NEEDING a sas and complain...yet if u rock ifs, and u go through the same trails i do with a sfa, then u are not a girl thingy, u actually wheel watcha' got, which how it should be, not about havin the tallest, coolest truck around...if ure into that

, then save ure cash for the chrome shop...thats how i see things.... just my $.02

and i think ALOT of ppl see it the same way as me....

BLACKDOG · « **Reply #68 on:** Dec 27, 2006, 02:14:59 PM »

If it breaks, fix it

If fixing it means going to a SA, then so be it.

Haven't seen the need to yet

Rocksurfer · « **Reply #69 on:** Dec 27, 2006, 06:57:27 PM »

I think what it all boils down to is how hard you are going to wheel it and not so much how tough the terain is, I've wheeled my IFS places people would say is nuts but it only let me down twice, once I broke a 1/2 shaft on Acky Breaky and an upper A-arm on Soledad Canyon. Two very rough and technical trails, that most would say it wouldn't be a good idea to wheel an IFS rig on. If you treat it right it will hold up but if you are a hammerhead and wheel with your right foot then you WILL break even a SA. To thier credit I've never broken anything on the front of a SA rig ever...... except the frame.

FATTshack · « **Reply #70 on:** Dec 27, 2006, 07:39:23 PM »

after reading this thread I'm going down to my local "HUMMER" dealership and I'm gonna buy an H3, and put some 24" spinners on it, and then I'm gonna do an IRS mod.....then I'm gonna out wheel all of you poozles! YEAH... WERD!

Hyena · « **Reply #71 on:** Dec 27, 2006, 08:52:52 PM »

i keep breaking this SA stuff. i think im gonna cut it all off and put a total chaos long travel kit in the front. i always wanted to take it to baja and pismo and jump it a long ways. actually i think i might just buy a 2wd and put that stuff on it.

Stinky · « **Reply #72 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 01:42:44 PM »

thats my next build...taco, super'd 3.4, toobed rear, long travel front/rear....rock crawlin IS fun, but 100mph over ridiculous terrain makes the hair on ure balls stand up....after ridin in a sandrail w/ an STI powerplant n 28" of wheel travel all around....its EXTREMELY tempting....

6.72:1 · « **Reply #73 on:** Dec 30, 2006, 09:23:40 PM »

Quote from: Stinky on Dec 26, 2006, 02:40:37 PM

ya, ill give my ifs some props(wigger talk), it went places that impressed me, and if ure 16, ifs is more of an "amatuer" LOOK n it makes "youngins" feel like a girl thingy...yet it doesn't, if u pregnant dog about havin ifs n dont do anything, you in turn are a raging girl thingy...ya being able to say u have a sas'ed truck is cool...thats about ALL it is if u dont wheel it to the point of NEEDING a sas and complain...yet if u rock ifs, and u go through the same trails i do with a sfa, then u are not a girl thingy, u actually wheel watcha' got, which how it should be, not about havin the tallest, coolest truck around...if ure into that shirt, then save ure cash for the chrome shop...thats how i see things.... just my $.02

and i think ALOT of ppl see it the same way as me....

Right on, but I have Rockwells and I know I don't wheel as hard as you folks out West.

Does that make me a "girl thingy?"

Rainer · « **Reply #74 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 12:03:41 PM »

My list:
96 Ford Bronco IFS(16) Wheeled the piss out of it.
Subaru Legacy(16)DD
Looking for Toyota with solid axle(16)Trail rig
Now I am almost 17. LOL

Mark

6.72:1 · « **Reply #75 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 01:43:01 PM »

Quote from: Rainer on Jan 06, 2007, 12:03:41 PM

My list:
96 Ford Bronco IFS(16) Wheeled the piss out of it.
Subaru Legacy(16)DD
Looking for Toyota with solid axle(16)Trail rig
Now I am almost 17. LOL

Mark

Not too shabby!

Rainer · « **Reply #76 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 06:15:08 PM »

Yeah I am also at Warren Tech. were I am learning Auto tech. It is the best program in Colorado, and thats a fact. I am pretty experienced at wheeling, but I could get better and learn some more. I just need a rig that can handle it. There is a seniorat my High School and he has a like 03-05 Jeep Rubicon with a long arm suspension on 35s, im sure his parents bought it all for him, this thing has a winch and some Poison spyder customs stuff on it and is just tricked out. He doesnt seem to wheel it though, I have yet to see a dent or rock rash on his tires. So Me and my buddy can show him a thing or to about wheeling. My friend has a 85 runner on 33s with geared axles. Man I cant wait to get a toyota.

Mark

6.72:1 · « **Reply #77 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 07:52:40 PM »

Quote from: Rainer on Jan 06, 2007, 06:15:08 PM

Yeah I am also at Warren Tech. were I am learning Auto tech. It is the best program in Colorado, and thats a fact. I am pretty experienced at wheeling, but I could get better and learn some more. I just need a rig that can handle it. There is a seniorat my High School and he has a like 03-05 Jeep Rubicon with a long arm suspension on 35s, im sure his parents bought it all for him, this thing has a winch and some Poison spyder customs stuff on it and is just tricked out. He doesnt seem to wheel it though, I have yet to see a dent or rock rash on his tires. So Me and my buddy can show him a thing or to about wheeling. My friend has a 85 runner on 33s with geared axles. Man I cant wait to get a toyota.

Mark

Of course, he wheels it, you just never seem him....

Haha....

tufsurf · « **Reply #78 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:07:27 PM »

I couldnt decide so I have an 85 4 runner and an 87 4R

Rainer · « **Reply #79 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:23:06 PM »

Quote from: Rainer on Jan 06, 2007, 06:15:08 PM

Yeah I am also at Warren Tech. were I am learning Auto tech. It is the best program in Colorado, and thats a fact. I am pretty experienced at wheeling, but I could get better and learn some more. I just need a rig that can handle it. There is a seniorat my High School and he has a like 03-05 Jeep Rubicon with a long arm suspension on 35s, im sure his parents bought it all for him, this thing has a winch and some Poison spyder customs stuff on it and is just tricked out. He doesnt seem to wheel it though, I have yet to see a dent or rock rash on his tires. So Me and my buddy can show him a thing or to about wheeling. My friend has a 85 runner on 33s with geared axles. Man I cant wait to get a toyota.

Mark

Of course, he wheels it, you just never seem him....

Haha....

Maybe he has. Maybe he washes it after the fact. Or he doesnt wheel it at all.

Mark

6.72:1 · « **Reply #80 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:28:18 PM »

Quote from: Rainer on Jan 06, 2007, 08:23:06 PM

Or he doesnt wheel it at all.

Mark

Oh my, say it ain't so!

6.72:1 · « **Reply #81 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:28:51 PM »

PAGE THREE!

Rainer · « **Reply #82 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:29:39 PM »

What do i know. It is all his choice. He has no scratches o dents so its hard to tell.

Mark

DTB · « **Reply #83 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:36:22 PM »

Quote from: Rainer on Jan 06, 2007, 08:29:39 PM

What do i know. It is all his choice. He has no scratches o dents so its hard to tell.

Mark

if theres no scratches or dents it dont get wheeled in my book

oh and to answer the original question......only the cool people should have solid axles

Rocksurfer · « **Reply #84 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:38:06 PM »

Quote from: Dirt Toy Boy on Jan 06, 2007, 08:36:22 PM

if theres no scratches or dents it dont get wheeled in my book

I have very few dents in any of my vehicles I've wheeled, now scratches come with wheeling without saying.

6.72:1 · « **Reply #85 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:51:21 PM »

Quote from: Dirt Toy Boy on Jan 06, 2007, 08:36:22 PM

if theres no scratches or dents it dont get wheeled in my book

oh and to answer the original question......only the cool people should have solid axles

Yes, only the cool kids on the block have solid axles.

Word on the street is: you get beat up in school if you don't have a solid axle....

DTB · « **Reply #86 on:** Jan 06, 2007, 08:52:43 PM »

Quote from: 6.72:1 on Jan 06, 2007, 08:51:21 PM

Word on the street is: you get beat up in school if you don't have a solid axle....

6.72:1 · « **Reply #87 on:** Jan 07, 2007, 01:50:20 PM »

Quote from: Dirt Toy Boy on Jan 06, 2007, 08:52:43 PM

Well, it happens....

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