Long Travel BS Thread

Nothing, I caged it myself with a plan I did the main structure in one weekend and put the normal seats back in, drove to work for a week. Pulled the seats back out to mount them then back to work for a week. Then back to gusseting etc etc

 

Good for you man.

I've had to many project blow up to trust that. On more important parts of the truck. Like diffs.

 

Quoted for truth

 

Exactly why I don't have a front diff lol. Different things suit different people

 

Just curious, what RPMs are you at going 80? I'm wanting 35s eventually and thinking about 5.29s vs 4.88s.

 

Careful, you wont be allowed to DD anymore or the TW police will find you

 

Yep, you're probably running right in the same area I used to on my old truck. It was great!!! I'm a grandpa though, 75ish is usually tops for me on the road...

 

I don't know what it is but you're probably talking a difference of like 250-300 rpm between the two. Do you want more pep or an extra .25 mpg? These V6 motors like RPMs. I ring the crap out of our 3.4L and I know the 4.0L is the same way, just more.

 

At my speedo 80 or real 80?

 

anyone know anyone that has king 2.5x8 double bypasses for sale?

 

There's a 3rd gen 4Runner running some and a few FJ's

 

Up front I'm going to have them banging off the cab mount and fender as the suspension cycles and the wheels turn. I'm going to have to take a careful look and figure out what I can fit up there, because our snow is only getting deeper and deeper. I don't get stuck until I'm in 2-3 feet deep of snow, but I want to be able to keep pushing through that for short periods of time.

35's and 2.0 max degrees of castor problems. Cab mount is already chopped pretty far back, not really much more room to squeeze out there.

 

Run 33's and chains

 

Wtf? How can you only get 2 degrees castor??


Also I've heard that the 4.0 doesn't like high Rpms for extending periods of time.

 

I wasn't worried about mpg really. I was just curious about rpms. Right now I'm at 3k going 80 on my speedo. And I know the 3.4 love high rpms. I get a pretty noticeable 'boost' around 3.5k rpms.

What's the speed difference? And real 80 preferably.

 

Eh, we drive on snow/ice up here for six months out of the year and you see very few street cars with chains, especially AWD. A snow rated tire and a decent driver are plenty for most road conditions.

LT truck that's been wheeled religiously for 100,000 miles. Stuff happens. Cams are maxed out.

Will eventually build some heimed UCAs to correct it.

4.88s aren't going to give you stupid high RPMs unless you drive stupid fast... Like 85+

 

I'm on 35's and 4.88's with an auto Trans and I find its to high on the highway at 65 mph, would be worse with a 6 speed.

 

Peak torque and power is at 4k. 3.5k it starts going up drastically again. Thus the boost. One of the reasons I love the 5.29s. Keeps the rpms around 3k all the time practically.

80 on the speedo is only 72mph I think or so. I don't go real 80. Not worth it. 70 is the trucks sweet spot for power and mpgs.

To do 75-77mph GPS I'm at about 3.5k almost.

 

What rpm out of curiousity

 

I will watch my RPMs on the way to work tomorrow and report as well. 4.88s and 35s.