What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Keyboard? You must be on mobile?

Patent laws are super crazy hard to follow. I know a company was supposedly going to buy the patent and start remaking them. There was a thread on ExpoP i found while looking at them.

I really think will some modern updates they would be awesome.

 

Thanks this will help for sure!

 

Here's my hoist. Gets it just high enough to drive the cab under. If it was my own garage I'd definitely make a nicer setup but for $100 and an hour of time it works.


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Yes mobikem

I think i remremem reading that thread. I think it was fairly old though. I can't remremem when the patent was freedf up.


Maybe my phone is drunk?

 

Something is drunk

yeah it was not new. Be interesting to try and get it back though and to tweak it.

 

Is there a way to remove the ucas without removing the shocks?

 

Just remove the shocks, 4 bolts and it take like 5 mins. You could remove the ucas but they're not easy way to put back with the shock in there. Also it would spring apart pretty violent depending on spring rate.

 

Not really.

Well..

actually sure.

You can undo the UCA bolt thats at the spindle and separate it there. Then remove the mount bolt. Swap in the new UCA and you'll have to press out the old ball joint to put in the slug adapter for the uniball.

Then use a jack to up the LCA to mate the spindle to the uniball.

Id just pull the shock though. Easy and only 4 bolts..Be easily to work with IMO.

 

Good to know thanks I thought there might be some secret trick or something I will pull them off.

 

Why not thats what I did when I installed my new uca's

 

It's not a hard "no" but it's not the easiest or safest way to go about it either.

 

Yeah nothing wrong with it. But the shock is easy to pull and will be easier to manipulate the suspension to where it needs to be to line up.

 

Ah i see

 

Ordered a BAMF BPV relocation bracket. Quick question, since I plan on using stock size coils and 5100's on the middle setting, should I need diff drop and sway bar drop brackets? Going for 1.5" of lift.

 

It's like reading one of Monte's posts, honestly.

 

Nah its not that bad.

 

Ben your not much better haha

 

I'm six beers and three margaritas in but my phone does a good job policing me haha.

 

I meant he isn't near as bad as me.

Not that im not bad haha