Long Travel BS Thread

Bump location looks much better. As far as lifting the truck up, mine did the same. Not quite as soon as yours did, but I had a 200lb rear bumper at the time. I accommodated it to minimal weight over the bed and fixed by throwing my spare on like you did.

 

Look okay?!

 

If you aren't bottoming the shock out on full droop id move your lower mounts up a bit. Hell Id move the bumps up an inch at least.

 

Get everything you can out of this thing. You can always shorten limit straps/make adjustments, or on the other side raise the strike plate later. Once you fully weld the cans it will be tough to move them and cost you a new set possibly.

 

^This. There's still a lot of usable room on that shaft. If others haven't chimed in already, I think I've seen people bump with under an inch of shaft left in uptravel and as @Hawk373 said you can always raise the strike plates.

I get to do this same routine soon because brown santa just arrived with my 2.5x14 triples, so stoked.

 

I don’t really know.
Should I set to use the maximum amount of shaft at full bump? As in the is mostly compressed.
Then there seems to be a lot of unused shaft at full droop.
I wasn’t sure so I went in the middle
I can raise the shock mounts for sure.
Also I did move the bumps up more

 

Did you buy 16’s?

 

I got the axle 1/2” from the frame and set my bumps off of that position. I welded some falsework tabs just to hold them in place, then built the mounting structure around that.

 

Yes

 

usually when i setup foxes like that i leave a 1/4” of shaft showing fullbump that rubber bump on the shaft can compress some if worst case it needed to.

 

I'm currently having some woes with that kit, and apparently I'm not the only one with some... Issues...

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lets-talk-rear-lt.484437/page-12#post-18891287

 

The other guys issues are 100% installer error

 

Would ya look at all that up travel

 

Why did you have to point that out? Seen this build and didn't notice before. -1 on the cool factor now

 

I will be doing it with 2 bikes.trucks doesn't have a hitch unfortunately but figured putting one like that would make the truck to long.(once I put something similar)

I want to put like a removable bar above the fuel cell and remove the front wheels( wife's bike is a 80 and I'll have a 110 just to cruise around) and attach a mount like a roof rack for a car idea something like this idea


Works in my head just will have to see if I can make it happen haha

 

Typical sema build. Not a fan on how wide front end is either, still kinda cool

 

I was hoping the body would be left patina'd

 

Push that thing up so your axle is bout to hit the frame, I think I put my axle at a 1/4” away from the frame at full bump and had 1/4”of shock shaft showing

 

that truck is actually on an tundra frame i think. they used their tundra race kit in the front.