Long Travel BS Thread

Same for mine, had to stack some washers to close the gap between the heim and the mount

 

Top 100% I love method nvs

 

Where was your profile pic taken? It looks super cool

 

Cloudbreak, Tavarua

 

Hopefully one day I’ll be good enough to surf cloudbreak... or even justify a trip abroad to surf. Cool shit

 

To all those that installed their dmz kit. How difficult is it to properly locate the shackle hangers? Ive read a lot about bushing issues because of them being installed slightly offset. And basically just getting everything in alignment like spring perches ect. My brothers a fairly proficient welder/fabricator/ car guy who’s happy to help so im lucky there. But he’s got a new infant besides everything else on his plate so want to gauge what all we’d be getting into. Probably have a local shop build the cage if I don’t end up buying the dmz one and do all the shock angle stuff/ bed cutting. Just trying to save some cash on the install and seems like a good amject

 

I don’t know shit and I did it myself without any problems.
I made a story stick to help keep things even and accurate. Party on man! Good luck!

 

Cool thanks man. Still gotta order more stuff just doing my homework like a nerd

 

@Tacomoto23 @snowsk8air2

I'm guessing as long as you go by the directions included in the kit and email pics to Tim if anything is confusing, you'd be able to take your time and do it.

 

The rear took me forever. I was by myself and like I said I don’t know shit. Prolly took me 100+ hours. I’m sure you guys will burn it up and run titties

 

Speaking of directions. I copied a guy the did it wrong.
It wasn’t included by Tim.
The spring perches are mounted opening toward the front of the truck

 

Ok cool wasn’t sure if there was gonna be instructions. Ive talked to tim a buch over email and like people say hes real cool to deal with. Don’t see customer service like that from most companies any more

Yea my bro does real solid work but tends to move fast sometimes. Especially he’s working for free lol but he wont take my $. Just dont want to rush it and fuck something up

 

Did you have to remove them or get them to work as is?

 

I left them backwards. It’s fine.it does affect how you mount the shock, was designed to have one leg inside the perch. But I didn’t need it. Geometry was fine.

 

Install is not bad. Just follow the directions and keep measuring things over and over to make sure they are straight and where they need to be.

As for the perches being backwards, the instructions included don’t mention anything about orientation so I did them backwards as well. Only issue was I had to trim the inner shock mounts to sit flat against the spring perch instead of curving around the axle. Super easy fix and doesn’t affect anything.

Edit:
And as others have said, Tim is super great to work with. Answered my call on a weekend because my weld on sliders covered the reference point he uses for locating the front spring hangar. Within about 20 min he emailed me pictures of two other reference points that I could use for my situation.

 

Actually the install is pretty easy. Its a single measurement for the front hangers. Then another single measurement from the front hangar to locate the rear hangers. The biggest pain in the ass is cutting off all the stock hangers and shock mounts. My suggestion would be to either rent or buy a plasma cutter. It will save you tons of time IMO. I also put my perches on backwards and it made no difference because they way I mounted my shocks the lower shock tabs located outside the spring perches anyways. My shocks (16 inch triple bypasses) are only about 3/4 inches aways from the frame.
I'm also a long bed so i'm not sure if that changes things compared the short beds.

Bunch of pics in my build thread if you are interested

 

I’m short bed and did the same shocks location as you.

 

Right on im also long bed. Ive already cut the rear hangers off for different ones and that wasn’t too bad. Imagine the fronts are just riveted on as well but im sure plasmas nice. Just trying to figure out order of everything. Forgot about shortening of the drive shaft. Follow you on Instagram one of the trucks that makes me want to persue this

 

Thanks! And about the driveshaft...I was told that it is possible to run the stock driveshaft without shortening it as long as you dont droop it out. That was not the case for me at all. It was an inch to long at ride height so I had to get it shortened in the middle of the project. Which in reality is perfect as you need to give the driveline shop the measurements at full droop and at ride height. Measure from the center of the carrier bearing to the face of the pinion flange. It cost me about 450 for the addition of the slip yoke, all new ujoints and labor but they did the work in 3 hours with no appointment and on new years eve, which was pretty sweet. Inland Empire driveline if anyone is in the SoCal region that needs work done these guys are the best. Tim at DMZ also uses them.

 

Drove up to BTF today and picked up my order. The time has come.