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Old 04-28-2007, 03:00 PM
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Tuff Country sucks?

Hiya, I have seen that many of you guys are bashing Tuff Countrys kit, but I think it's pretty good,at least with Skyjacker D45 springs, it flexes pretty good for a cheap kit=)




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Ok. TuffCountry sucks, at least a little.

I was coming home and at one crossroad which I was coming a little faster than normally, I felt/heard big bang and my steering went all crazy.

Can you believe this, that sway bar drop brackets two bolts snapped!

Allmost wrecked my truck. Well... Maybe I'll survive if I change stronger bolts there...

But, be aware...

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man i had the same thing kinda happen to mine to. it has bad tire shake. i know the feeling
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Uh....that ain't the sway bar bracket......looks like the track bar bracket to me. That's really bad.....
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ya thats what happen to me. the track bar bracket broke.
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was this after you picked the right side of the truck up with the front-end loader???????
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Originally Posted by B.A.Ram
was this after you picked the right side of the truck up with the front-end loader???????
Sorry, I was talking about the track bar.

Nope it wasn't right after that.

I have driven over two tanks and several tight turns after playing around with the tractors front end loader.
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Blah... now the track bar drop blocks supporting bracket broked... Well just welded it together and little strengthened it... What a pain a one block could be. But I hope it's ok for now.

And I do not want to take the stabilizers off...
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My 5" Superlift drop bracket came with some cheese bolts, I put Grade 8's in and melted that sucker to the stock bracket!
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I never trusted those things, I went right for the solid steel 03 conversion with the 3" lift and standard 03 trac bar. When I went above 2" though I had to get the adjustable bar. I've hit quite a few hard bumps and rolls with no ill effects yet. Also like 97' CTD said most of those come with cheap grade bolts 2/5 for the stress thats on them deffintly go grade 8.
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Just wait til your coil springs snap. At least they do in the Jeep kits. I've heard way too many bad things about their lifts to ever consider getting one.
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