San Diego BS Thread.

Hi Sean,
What's up:
I drove out to Arizona to visit my daughter and grand daughter... took the wife's Corolla (30-37 MPG range sure beats the 18-20 my Tacoma might get on the highway).
I posted my Easter Baja trip with a dozen other 4x4s here on TW Trip Reports/Off Roading forum. Looks like this Memorial Day weekend will be a 'stay-cation'. More rain in May than ever before here in San Diego keeps my income low (but is good for the drought condition, as they call it).
You have a great weekend, if you can!

Hey Doug (4WD), hello! Tell us about what you are doing in Nevada, please!

 

Yes I have all those and went with the dirt king LT kit seemed like a nice kit looks beefy as hell just hope it holds up and is an easy install

 

Not sure if you are just doing coil bucket gussets or if you are doing cam tabs and uprights also. But if you are that will more than likely take more than a day unless you are working late into the night.

 

I'm not sure what gussets it came with I told them to give me everything they had want it strong as possible

 

Dirt king looks like a good entry level lt kit for a 2nd gen. I like the uca heims so you can weld your lower cams in place

 

Cam tab gussets alone I would budget 4 or 8 hrs. If the cams are seized it is a complete pain, have a torch, sawzall and air hammer ready. Uprights aren't a huge burden, but breaking them down to do it right takes time. Coil buckets and limit straps are the easiest of the 3. But if doing them all that in of itself with prep and welding them up will take a whole day. Rest of the install is only a few hours.

 

Hopefully the cams aren't seized truck is less than a year old haha but that's the other reason in doing it on the 3 day weekend to get it all done no matter what problems I run into I have that extra day as a buffer zone I know it's going to take a while as I have never done this before so should be interesting

 

Thanks Gabriel I appreciate all the insight it's very helpful like I said I've never done this before and plan on taking all 3 days to install without breaking shit I will hopefully have every tool needed if not there is an autozone down the street and plenty of other vehicles to take once torn apart do you recommend starting on the front or the rear? The rear is just 5100's with icon aal pack for now till I can afford a real rear end

 

nice to see another member going with dirtkings...

 

Did you install yours and care to help a fellow DK guy out? I'm kinda freaking out with all the different things I've been told to do and have and shit

 

What kind of grease will ineed for bushings just some high speed bearing grease or some special shit?

 

Just get a lithium based grease and goop the whole bushing.

 

Thanks Mike I know your a wiz at this shit with your taco build

 

Pretty straight forward...didn't take me as long as I thought but I have my own bay at a shop so having a lift and power tools helps alot..only thing though is that the brake line they supply was short as I forgot to mention that I have a lift spindle. And it's a plus that I did my own alignment right after install...benefit of working at the dealership

 

Side job price for an alignment? Haha

 

So when am I coming to the shop for a mod day/ alignment job?

 

Haha....we'll see if I can hook it up...depends on the schedule...having 4 kids takes up most of my time...

 

Damn that's alot of kids haha but would be legit if you could hook it up with an alignment

 

I would start on the front first, as it's going to take up all your time. The rear is a piece of cake to do. Can be done in a couple hours with two guys working on it.

 

So your the one that owns that truck I see parked off Auto Parkway/Howard all the time. Also see a newer Tundra with a SCORE sticker on the back too.