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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: zookiemike on February 18, 2004, 02:32:37 AM
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Do they all wheel hop. Mine has the emu kitt and it does pertty bad. Any way to eliminate it?
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Do they all wheel hop. Mine has the emu kitt and it does pertty bad. Any way to eliminate it?
Are you talking about the front end hop?
-Eric
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I had real bad rear wheel hop when I would climb the sand. I replaced the rear shocks and no more hop.
hope that helps,
Kevin
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The front and the rear hops?
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The front causes the rear to hop. We are adding a second strap over the front diff to reduce this. Here is a Zukiworld artical that has this part at the tail end of it. http://www.zukiworld.com/month_020103/feature_frontendupgradeswithhagen.htm On steel housings we have been welding a second pinion bracket on. That completely eliminates the problem.
Mike
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Zookiemike, I assume you are talking about off roading.
I know it can be because of wheel pressures.  Especially in sand.  If you have too high a pressure your wheel will dig (go down) then clime out (up) and dig again.
I've wheeled sand for 20 years.  My brother-in-law had a chev. 3/4 ton with new tires.  No matter how hard I tried, he would not air down past 15psi.  When he went onto the dunes it wheel hopped so bad that my sister (his wife) would not ride with him. ÂÂ
As for other conditions, it's just a part of wheeling.  If you tires are too high for the soil conditions, the wheels will again dig in and clime out causing the truck to hop.
It's not the same axil hop that someone with leaf springs.  Wheel hop with leaf springs is when the torque on the axil and wheels cause the leaf springs to twist until there's so much tention they spring back.  Thus causing wheel hop.
Note:  Wheel hop is the number one reason for breaking parts!  The tire or axil goes up into the air, with no resistance the tire will "spin up or spin faster" (this is more prevalent with open diffs).  Then the tire comes down and make contact with the ground.  Now if the tire grabs instead of spining, all that force that was spining the tire (torque/power) is transfered to the drive train.  Then you are most likely hear the sound of axiles braking.  ;D
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when i was running the aluminium axle up front .. i would back off everytime the front end started to bounce as i knew what would happen if i kept the power on ... bang ... and on to the next axle... it gets silly when you have to ytake a spare axle with you when you go out to play
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Im going to fab up a custom cross member in the coming months. I put it in the ditch abuot a month ago and when i did it bent the sh*t out of my cross member and mustuf cracked my diff becouse a couple of days latter it poped coming out of my yard. So when we changed the diff we had to use a portra power to bend it back it was ugly :( Now trail work is not an option.