Long Travel BS Thread

anyone convert their smoothies to bypasses? was talkin with a local fab shop and the guy made it sound pretty simple, get a few check valves from king, and 5/8" chromoly tube and tig em in there......idea I might play with...it seems doable

 

wouldn't bother. Just get a new shock.

 

Id run these over any CO out there right now too. ADS FTMFW

 

I've priced it out, not worth it. The price for the parts, plus you would have to get them recoated, plus you need to hone the shock after welding, just sell them and by bypasses

 

Yea I haven't priced it out, just seemed simple enough, might still do it, after I get new bypasses n stuff to do the SUA stuff

 

This! Seen people try to do it cheap... Bye bye wear band

 

Yea I could see that, hard to keep the bore true around the new holes and polished, I could run a boring bar down the cylinder? And hone it sfterwards

 

Just seems like too much work. Especially after you net money from selling the smoothies

 

Yep...not worth it

 

K fine, lol just bullshitin like the thread says to do. The place in Fresno Enraged Fabrication has some pretty cool guys there, nice built t100 an employee had, setup pretty sweet

 

Yep that's the idea of this thread, to bounce ideas around..... You might get shit for them but well that's forums for you.

 

I wish I had a picture of his half link spring under setup. Basically a link from the front leaf perch pivot to centerline of the axle parallel to the spring next to it. Same thing on each side. Kinda like trac bars. But a dual rod end and piece of DOM, super simple and no bind he could find, said it got rid of all his axle hop, super simple setup, seemed legit

 

Anybody know the dimensions of the lower arm bushings for the 1st gen total chaos tacoma kit?

 

That's not unusual, you really only need one though

 

Like this?

 

holy rust...

 

that thing is like twice as long as the things im talkin about.... short ones look a lot cleaner too

 

That's what she said.


Seriously though, are you having problems with axle hop?

 

me personally not really, but goin to the spring under stuff and 4xin im gunna do this, axle hop just murders your gears it seems like, im a nerd when it comes to fabricating shit, I love it. got my bender all setup now too, so first im doing secondary shock hoops for the front and a crossover brace to start. (I get how bending tube works I do it A LOT at work in the winter with hydraulic systems for skycranes) again total fab, tooling nerd

 

Not mine lol, but yea. Google image.