hydros anyone?

[twitch32]

I know this is a bag section but there is no hydraulics section. Im a white boy but i LOVE hydraulics. I dont want them to make me bounce or three wheel or anything i juss want them cause i love the way they sound and the speed at which they move.

anyone got any info or opinions about hyrdos?

[slamd98s]

Hydros suck man... My buddy had to replace his motor 3 times, and they are way to fast for me...

[joebird1515]

i dunno i got bags on my noma but all the guys in our club got dro's and they r sweet sound awesome when u go up dont let people on here tell u they r junk or suc cuase they deffanly dont maybe if u install them ghetto and not tighten the lines down then they will leak do the shit right and it'll last if u need any help ill ask the guys for ya...peace Joe

[Layd Dly]

both work gret if installed properly....jsut make sure u run accums if u want any good ride outta your juice.

[Braind3ad]

I spent a lot of time with hydros before I decided to come over to the bag stuff. One great thing of bags instead of hydros is that bags don't have to inflate straight up, any angle on hydraulic pistons would bend them or even snap them. Also the weight issue, and you get a better ride out of bags. Don't get me wrong I love hydros too, but i think I've had enough of that stuff...

[twitch32]

Aight yall thanx for ur info... does anyone know of pics of s10's on dros or video clips?

[Deez10]

I have a few, I'm on vacation right now. Can try to get them in a few weeks.

[twitch32]

thanx bro

[orange_sdime98]

hey man, i have some vid clips and pics of my lift on here somewhere. Just do a search for it. Hit me up with any questions. I love my juice

[EyePoppin]

You can get an awesome ride out of either if setup correctly. If you want to see my views...do a search, there has been many topics on this.

[ZEROpsi]

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Originally posted by slamd98s
Hydros suck man... My buddy had to replace his motor 3 times, and they are way to fast for me...

sounds like your buddy is a fukn idiot, When properly installed juice is better that air. If everything is installed correctly, meaning fittings are tightened, proper voltage is given to the pumps and you have the proper selinoids working then juice is very very reliable, reasons you have problems with hydros is usualy lack of proper installation by the owner, or they are not properly maintaining it. And i hate this common misconception about juice being messy and always leaking, if you tighten the fittings and use proper fittings the hydraulic oil willnot leak. Yes you do have to charge batteries, but oh well, i dont mind it yet. but just my opinion on the whole thing, i switched from air to juice on my s10 and i love it, i will never go back.

taylor

[EyePoppin]

Quote:

Originally posted by ZEROpsi
sounds like your buddy is a fukn idiot, When properly installed juice is better that air. If everything is installed correctly, meaning fittings are tightened, proper voltage is given to the pumps and you have the proper selinoids working then juice is very very reliable, reasons you have problems with hydros is usualy lack of proper installation by the owner, or they are not properly maintaining it. And i hate this common misconception about juice being messy and always leaking, if you tighten the fittings and use proper fittings the hydraulic oil willnot leak. Yes you do have to charge batteries, but oh well, i dont mind it yet. but just my opinion on the whole thing, i switched from air to juice on my s10 and i love it, i will never go back.

taylor

Taylor i had this arguement many times in the past and i think you were part of the thread too...people are thick headed and think that dros suck.....im on ure side....

[ZEROpsi]

one thing i have noticed is that the people that think dros suck, are the people that have never had them or installed them or maintained them, they probably saw their buddy with them and now think they suck, or saw some asshat with them on their ride that probably cared what they preformed like or anything.


taylor

[orange_sdime98]

Quote:

Originally posted by ZEROpsi
sounds like your buddy is a fukn idiot, When properly installed juice is better that air. If everything is installed correctly, meaning fittings are tightened, proper voltage is given to the pumps and you have the proper selinoids working then juice is very very reliable, reasons you have problems with hydros is usualy lack of proper installation by the owner, or they are not properly maintaining it. And i hate this common misconception about juice being messy and always leaking, if you tighten the fittings and use proper fittings the hydraulic oil willnot leak. Yes you do have to charge batteries, but oh well, i dont mind it yet. but just my opinion on the whole thing, i switched from air to juice on my s10 and i love it, i will never go back.

taylor

Nicely said, and procharger has a thing where it keeps your batteries charged while driving. Also you can get some clean set-ups with juice. I will never go to air.

[DMNTD X]

i have dros just not installed yet.. any tips on anything would be greatly appreciated by anyone

[motomullet]

I have only seen one car on juice, but its pretty cool. Except for the fact that his cylinder cup broke and it shot the cylinder up and it whacked the underside of his hood, breaking the fitting in half and denting the hood

My $0.02: buy nice cylinder cups

[ZEROpsi]

as far as clenleness, i think juice is far superior to air, i will take a picture of my pumps later, they are prohopper, all chrome tank and motor and very very highly polished pressure plates and block and motor cap. Dumps are all dipped in chreom and all the lines are stainless steel lines, very shiny and polished, the rack they mount to is all powdercoated and looks very very clean.

The only tip i can give you when installing juice is to go through a double check all your work, hell tripple check it, make sure fittings are tight, make sure you double nut your selinoids, and use lock washers whenever you can. If you do it right, you will be very very happy with the results.

taylor

[DMNTD X]

Thanx!! Im having a friend install everything. he is president of a lowrider club up in mass and he has done about 30 installs so i feel safe and i will check everything and make shure everything is tight

[bagged03s10]

i think that hydros are pretty good, i always hated them for some reason then i bought a truck that had them,i thought they were pretty good except that i didnt have accumulators and it rode stiff as hell,but other then that,they were kick ass

[dragginbalz]

Quote:

Originally posted by orange_sdime98
Nicely said, and procharger has a thing where it keeps your batteries charged while driving. Also you can get some clean set-ups with juice. I will never go to air.

www.streetcharger.com


next time you see a bobcat or excavator or garbage truck or dump truck, or any of 1000000 other uses for hydraulics, ask them how many problems they have


it's ALL in the design and installation!

I am probably going to juice my next ride.

t

[Something Different]

The only thing that I don't like about dro's is you lose your complete suspension and the ride is terrible and just the fact of all those batteries taking up all that space in the bed of my truck. (just my opinion)

[GriMSysTeM]

Thats what accumlators(sp?) are for.

[ZEROpsi]

Quote:

Originally posted by blazed4x4
The only thing that I don't like about dro's is you lose your complete suspension and the ride is terrible and just the fact of all those batteries taking up all that space in the bed of my truck. (just my opinion)

WTF are you even talking about man, first of all, you dont have to load your bed of your truck up with batteries, i run 4 batteries, and their physically smaller than most vehices batteries used to run the cars, but still is a whoping 1200CA and 400min reserve time. The battery only measures 8"x5"x5.5" come on that takes up way less room than a decent sized tank like a 9 gallon, and way more than a 12 gallon. oh yea, and i could make my juice last much much longer than your tank full of air.

And man the ride is not terrible, accumulators make a hydraulic suspension ride much much beter, its compares to a bagged vehice that rides on shocks all around. I dont understand how all these people can not line hydros when they know nothing abou them.

taylor

[91sdime]

You dont have to run accumulators to have a decent ride either...Most people who run accumulators dont run springs....You could just run a softer spring (granted it will make it go up slower), with a decent set of shocks and the ride is great...Oh and lets see a bag setup that gets the lift cylinders get...or the flexability...

[orange_sdime98]

Ya i know, got lift? And I only have the front done, wait till the back is juiced Ill get a pic of the lift i get on my truck...

[Mystik]

umm how about a true canti system

[pOrk]

Hydraulics are for farm trucks :-P

I am still debating air or juice on my next vehicle, and a friend cant decide to do air or juice on his astro. I told him air on the astro, just cause he doesn't want to cut open the floor in the rear. But then again, anythign is possible

My guy Ryans Sdime

[pOrk]

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This dime is fully shaved, including the entire rear end :-) Used to have air ride, but he hated it and switched it to juice...

His is dirty as fock cause he hops it all the time and doesn't use the correct lines. He uses come cheap ass ones...

And why do droz blow solenoids all the time? Is that becaose fo incorrect voltage?

[ZEROpsi]

lots of times when selinoids blow, (and i am sure i will get some conflicting opinions here) i believe it is one three things, one, the nuts they used to attatch the wire to the selinoid, they didnt tighten it or anything, they just got it finger tight, and when drivind down the road it hits bumps and what not and comes loose and sparks all to hell, two, the selinoid the person uses is just a cheep ass selinoid something they picked up from the local auto parst store. Three, they arent using enought for their total voltage, there is a general rule of thumb when calculating your volatage and your number of selinoids.

I double nut my wire that is attatched to the selinoid, and i allways use Accurate selinoids and i use two more than reccomended for my voltage/pumps.

taylor

[pOrk]

Taylor, your on juice now? Would you mind postin some pics? I'm interested to see how you did the install.

[ZEROpsi]

i will post pics, but i wont be postin the pics till i am totally done, right now its all tore back apart, battery rack and pump rack are all at the powdercoater, my bridge is still at the powdercoater, and my 4 link is almost done gettin chromed, very little left to do but its the little things that count the most.

I can tell you what i am using tho, I got 4 stinger SP1000 batteries, they are little powerhouses, 1200CA, 400min reserve, all stinger 0 gauge wire, and all allen set screw platinum terminals. Each battery has a battery terminal on it from stinger that displays the voltage of the progressive load. once again all platinum connects. Two prohopper all chrome pumps, Stainless steel braded lines, chrome dump bodies, all chrome fittings. All lines are steel braded not those ugly black ones. 8" chrome cylinders in the front, and 10" chrome in the back, the rear will sport a coil-over setup, with 3/4 ton mini-coils. All visible lines to the cylinders are stainless steel hardlined for reliability.

the install shoud be bad ass, im very excited, the batteries are all ina diamond and the pupms float next to them,

like i said i will be postin pics when i get it done, prob wont be soon, but i will post pics.

taylor

[pOrk]

Very bad ass man, I didn't think that truck could get much better! I'm still debating between air and huice, ahh the choices...

[orange_sdime98]

mine's gettin all redone...

[cab]

Quote:

Originally posted by ZEROpsi
i will post pics, but i wont be postin the pics till i am totally done, right now its all tore back apart, battery rack and pump rack are all at the powdercoater, my bridge is still at the powdercoater, and my 4 link is almost done gettin chromed, very little left to do but its the little things that count the most.

I can tell you what i am using tho, I got 4 stinger SP1000 batteries, they are little powerhouses, 1200CA, 400min reserve, all stinger 0 gauge wire, and all allen set screw platinum terminals. Each battery has a battery terminal on it from stinger that displays the voltage of the progressive load. once again all platinum connects. Two prohopper all chrome pumps, Stainless steel braded lines, chrome dump bodies, all chrome fittings. All lines are steel braded not those ugly black ones. 8" chrome cylinders in the front, and 10" chrome in the back, the rear will sport a coil-over setup, with 3/4 ton mini-coils. All visible lines to the cylinders are stainless steel hardlined for reliability.

the install shoud be bad ass, im very excited, the batteries are all ina diamond and the pupms float next to them,

like i said i will be postin pics when i get it done, prob wont be soon, but i will post pics.

taylor

damn, THAT'S how ya do dros, the right way!