New RRC owner

[Funrover]

Originally Posted by nickm347

I plan on going with a 3" coil spring lift, i know those tires wont fit without it! I want to go with the RTE, but honestly, Im on a budget right now, so I will probably go with the Big Blue and Procomp +2" Shocks. Not the best setup, but it will work for now. With the BB springs and +2" Shocks, what else will I need, extended brake lines?

You should save for the RTE springs at least IMO. But yes with that you will want extended brake lines

[cellulararrest]

Don't waste your time with big blue. It's not that much more to do it right.

[repete]

if a vc fails due to being sezed all 4 will have power and you will have binding in your steering wheel. if the vc fails open "free spin" you will only have power to the front. Now being you have no power to the front, and the front is limited slip, I'd look into that front end. Just the other week I was talking to the local LR dealer, and they had a customer that had a broken axle shaft in the front, not being able to afford one he had the dealer put it back together without the shaft. does youres have ABS?

[XtremeMarine]

X2. You'll be kicking yourself later.

[stolenheron]

nice RRC!

[repete]

limited yes. search the classic secton on what i posted about a month ago. my v/c failed open without my notice. then after that I lost my lt cv, and I was dead in the water! the power to the front end took the path of least resistance. and the right front did nothing. your abs does a self test every time you start and drive away. the tone rings are on the outside of the cv housings. if it don't turn your light wont go out

[cellulararrest]

No your front differential is not limited slip (unless someone put one in). Both front and rear differentials are open. A viscous coupling unit (Viscous coupling unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) acts as a center differential.

Generally, if there's no drive to your front tires it could only be a couple things. Either no front driveshaft, broken CV's or a missing half shaft.

When VCU's fail (no really very common) generally they fail in a locked state. It is pretty rare for them to fail and act as an open differential.

'93-'95 LWB's had traction control (using ABS) on the rear axle.

I jacked up the front tires, one at a time, and they spin freely with no sound of grinding or anything.

You mean you jacked up the driver's front wheel only (all three other wheels on the ground) and it turned freely? And same thing with your passenger side? That sounds like either no half shafts or no front drive shaft. You shouldn't be able to do that.

You could narrow it down by jacking both front wheels off the ground and turning one. The opposite wheel will spin in the opposite direction if your half shafts are both there an intact. That narrows it down to no front driveshaft (or something else wrong with it) or your viscous coupling. Or the fact that your drive train might in fact be perfectly fine (most likely).

[repete]

If it isn't a limited slip, then wouldn't the rt front still have power when the lt front cv goes out? Or vice versa? I was pretty shocked to see my vc fail open like that. that coupling worked as a heating element for my transfer cace. It got that atf so hot that the atf adheared to the coupling!