Steering & Suspension

    When it’s time to hit the trail nothing is more important than a thorough inspection the night before or even days before. We should all be checking the obvious; oil, tires, nuts, bolts, safety gear, etc. But there are times that you just can’t catch everything, and you end up doing a trail repair or two. Still other …

All of us here at 4X4REVIEW are fortunate enough to have come in contact with a few great companies in the offroad industry.  One such company is Offroad Design located in Carbondale, Co. We first met the owner Stephen Watson back in November of 1998 at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. Since then, we have had the pleasure of wheelin with him at …

     A friend of ours recently asked to go wheelin’ with us. He brought along his 1997 Jeep Cherokee with an Up Country Package. This package includes a variety of options, but most importantly a 1 to 1.5 inch lift kit from the factory. We took him to one of our favorite wheelin’ spots in the Rincon Mountains of Arizona called …

     A friend to the 4x4review staff recently bought a 1993 Wrangler. He purchased it bone stock for the reason of building it up himself. After a few months had gone by, and seeing our rigs, it was decided that his “new” rig needed a lift. We headed over to Dick Cepek in Tucson, AZ. and saw Ray Sommer who set …

T he steering shaft on any 4-wheel drive takes a tremendous amount of stress off-road. If you abuse your off road vehicle as we abuse our Project CJ, your steering has an excessive amount of play in it. The stock Jeep shaft wears out quickly when used with big tires aired down for serious trail use. The common wear point …

A year or so ago we put the finishing touches on what we thought would be the strongest possible steering system we could build for our Jeep. Just when we thought that it was as strong as it could get along came Sam’s Off Road with two more super strength parts for our Jeep. Like the Super Heroes of our …

  Great off-road ability, decent street manners and safety were our main goals when we set out to build our project Jeep. Well, the off-road part we nailed almost dead on. Decent street manners, well we came close, it stops good and tracks straight. Safety, its got a full roll-cage that was professionally installed, racing harnesses, and great seats. Everything …

“Man, I need some help, and fast!” I declared. With a single raised brow and a too-quick response of “Duh!” my fellow editors simply couldn’t resist the temptation to drive home that which I had teed up so nicely. “No! I mean, my truck needs help” I retorted. The point I was driving at is that each of us at …

 Hard on Rocks… Confidence to Explore… Dynatrac’s ad slogans are boastful and aggressive. We’ve installed and tested several of their tough products over the years, SST shock absorbers, diff covers, etc., but we had never tested Dynatrac’s mainstay – the custom-made, venerable Dana 60 axle. It was time for us to strap one on and give it a royal beat …

  When it comes to bulletproof steering there are only few companies that stand out in our off-road realm. Newcomer PSC Motorsports happens to be one of them, and their top-shelf products can make your rig twice as capable and steer better on and off the road. PSC Motorsports can equip your rig with high pressure and high volume pumps, …