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Do I need to sleeve and gusset my 30 with 35's and 4.88's with it being my dd and trails? The sleeves seem pretty straight forward, slide in when you regear. How much labor cost on C gussets ? I Don't have a welder.
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you definitely want the c gussets as without them, your c's will bend with 35's. sleeves are cheap insurance but really, in spite of all the hype, are far from necessary - trust me. you can probably have a welder get them on for you for about $200 or so.
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Originally Posted by wayoflife
you definitely want the c gussets as without them, your c's will bend with 35's. sleeves are cheap insurance but really, in spite of all the hype, are far from necessary - trust me. you can probably have a welder get them on for you for about $200 or so.
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Thx, may just buy gussets and throw sleeve money towards install.
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unless you have a really good professional welder that really knows what he's doing, more times than not, installing a truss WILL BEND your axle housing. because of this, i personally think they are a bad idea. again, nothing wrong with sleeves and they are relatively cheap insurance but, far from being as necessary as some would like to suggest.
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Originally Posted by wayoflife
unless you have a really good professional welder that really knows what he's doing, more times than not, installing a truss WILL BEND your axle housing. because of this, i personally think they are a bad idea. again, nothing wrong with sleeves and they are relatively cheap insurance but, far from being as necessary as some would like to suggest.
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Originally Posted by jkhounddawg
You really only need the gussets. I have a dana 30 with 37s. No bends or breaks yet.