Long Travel BS Thread

95# for DMZ

 

So I knew stock was 70 something. With my new axle I figured 80 at least. Bent the brand new big ubolts that came with it

 

This is frickin brilliant.....I haven't seen this one before.

 

The DMZ bolts are 9/16”
I had to retorque them quite a bit initially and drove around with my tq wrench for a while. Then before and after my first offroad trip.

Edit: do you you think they bent from doing too much at once on one side?

 

This is what I’d be afraid of with using anti-seize. May be too slippery and I have to keep retorquing them.
Also wet torque numbers would be different than dry.

 

I have to use anti seize. When I removed the stock bolts and Alcan bolts the threads pretty much came off along with the nuts. I probably could have boiled water with the u bolts.

Once the leaf pack settled they were good. I check them on occasion and no loosening. The nuts I’m using have around an inch of thread engagement.
A regular grade 8 9/16” bolt is good for 115 ft lbs according to SAE.

The wet vs dry is an interesting argument. Someone should take bolt stretch measurements one day to see what the difference is. I wouldn’t split hairs over ubolts though.

 

Torque values are typically "dry" unless otherwise stated by some form of manual or instruction. The difference between "dry" and using a friction modifier can be significant (25% +)

Heres a quick read. https://www.antiseize.com/PDFs/torque_specifications.pdf

 

Cool thank you, exactly what I was loooking for.

 

JD fab went wild with making all new lca mounts.

 

There’s a thread on it in here. A different option to Fit bigger tires.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fitting-35’s-with-minimal-trimming.626274/

 

I’m back halving and linking my crawler with an exo cage, roll cage will be 1 3/4 .120 dom. Thinking of doing the bedcage out of 1 3/4 .120 hrew to save money. Good idea? bad idea? Would save me about $300 over all dom. Asking in here bc it has to do with a 4 link, and some of you are back halved

 

For the amount of time and effort involved I’d just buy dom for everything, coil over bed cages need to be a good deal stronger than a sock medcage as the cage is what’s holding the weight of the vehicle unlike a shock hoop.

 

Nice got some catching up to do

 

what do you guys think about the DK lt kit? really thinking about switching out my BK +2 KIT. should be up for sale soon

 

Absolutely love my +3.5” kit. Been running it a little over 2 years now.

 

did you go with bushings or heims?

 

Heims. I got mine on one of the first few batches before bushings were an option. After 2 years the heims and uniballs are starting to get noisy, but I like the extra alignment adjustability. Running about 4.8* castor which makes off road handling quite nice. Not going to be able to get those alignment numbers with the bushing kit.

 

Are you getting a new kit?

 

Which one is the long travel kit with the most "advertised" travel Nowadays?
For the 2nd gen

 

No just saw someone doing new lca mounts and found out he's on here