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

Got my 10” under seat sub today. Now to install it.

 

Doing clutch this week. Need u-joints and carrier bearing. Any suggestions, brands/place to buy? Also gonna do fluids in diffs and tcase, what to buy. Thanks

 

So uh.. Ever see someone do Chevy 63s SUA?

 

HEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL NOOOOOOO.

Terrible idea. Not enough arch.

 

Ive toyed with the idea. Ive got a pair that have some healthy arch to them. Not long travel arch but good. Mine are negative now so theres that. I know a guy who works at jimco racing who could fab me extended shackles so that the lift loss of putting them under would essentially cancel out.

 

Just a thought. I dont want the lift of the 63s but I want the rest of the benefits.

 

I'm not sure that'd work very well, or at all. They have a pretty shallow arch, although I don't see why you couldn't have them areched more. But really I don't know that they'd be long enough for you to see any real benefit either in ride quality or flex when used for SUA. SOA you could still make it pretty low slung and flex decent.

 

See the above post. I dont want to add another leaf because a thicker pack would lower it even more.

 

You can arch a pack without adding leaves, a good spring shop can modify the pack you have with force and heat. Although really you should just have deaver or alcan make some springs the proper length and specs for your truck weight and desired stance.

 

Ideally I would buy a f67 pack, hardware, and shocks all in one go but thats not happening anytime soon

 

F67s suck too.

You'd want an E30 pack most likely.

using 63s for SUA is a terrible terrible idea. They aren't long enough and they don't have enough arch even if you rearched them.

63s are not a good spring for a LT build at all. Idk what "advantages" you are talking about, but there are none for what you are going for.

Buy once..cry once.

 

Ive heard good about f67s. Never heard of E30s. The 63s SUA isnt for long travel, its more to replace the rear pack with the tried and relatively trusted 63s but with a twist. I can get myself a set of extended bilstein 5125s for the rear.

 

I'm not sure I see what that would gain you in that configuration. 63s are a good upgrade in SOA setup if you aren't actually aiming for LT performance. I think it'd be quite a bit more work for not really anything in SUA setup and when you do go to LT springs later on you'll have to do most of that work again.

 

I really dont want the lift of the 63s. Thats one of my main things.

 

They aren't the right leaves for your application any way you try to put it then. You can pull leaves out of the pack to lower the truck.

 

So, two leaf 63s?

 

63's by themselves don't really provide a ton of lift, mostly because they're pretty flat. It's the way you mount them that tends to provide lift. You would need to french in spring hangers and use short shackles to keep the height down.
I think they're awesome for ride quality, flex, ability to hold weight, and (the best part) they're cheap as hell. They're definitely not an LT type spring though, and don't be like the 3rd gen guy who spent ~1500 to get them installed on his truck.

 

Who the hell spent $1500 to have 63s installed? Damn haha

 

I wasnt gonna spend more than SUA hardware and a hanger. Ill put up a pic of the pack I have sometime tomorrow. They have decent arch to them.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-16-quicksand-trd-or-6mt-build-and-bs.500861/

lol

Think I spent about $180 total.