1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

2004 Toyota Tacoma SR5
https://cars.ksl.com/listing/6733742

 

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Can i pull the shock, jack up under the lca to compress the spring, disconnect the uca, and slowly back out the lca after ive put the spring compressor on while the coils compressed to pull them?

Gonna shoot to get done over the next week finally

 

Dunno if I posted this one, but this is @Abeyancer to the T

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFq-vQQjX8D/?igshid=vo6rd0hq40g7

 

Nah. The spring is to long, ive tried

maybe if you disconnect tge steering linkageafe and the brace bar and sway bar

 

Shit, so u gotta put the compressor on and compress it down the long way but in same fashion i described? Can i get away with undoing the sway bar and uca to swap em out only?

 

Gonna be doing v6 coils not lift coils so theyll be same length (but will still lift from diff spring rate) and spacer

 

No

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson_vs._Roy_Jones_Jr.

 

only thing missing is the toilet paper on his head

 

I had to use a compressor. You can get the coil lose by doing it your way but I still had to compess to take it out

 

@Wulf https://www.instagram.com/p/CFr8Rt2MPPH/?igshid=1b2jvcapgoej7

 

This stuff is really cool. Back when I was 18/19 years old, we used to get drunk in the hills outside of the town I grew up in and there was this old military site up at the top of one of the mountains we all knew as "the Nike base". It was all gated up but there were never any signs of life up there, so kids would break through the gate all the time. There was a huge underground missile silo platform there and launch station, along with a few old run down buildings. US Government signs warning to stay away etc.

Apparently it was one of many old, decommisioned missile bases along the west coast built to defend against bombers and nuclear attacks up until the Cold War

I heard about 10 years ago the nike base got closed up for real this time, not sure if they just gated it off better or what. Haven't tried going back there since I was probably 19, wouldn't be surprised if they just closed that road off for good.

 

Okay sweet thank you. As far as disconnecting components to get in and out the spring, can i get away with only disconnecting the uca if i compress?? or expect to do the sway bar too. Ill need to check the torque specs too

 

@BartMaster1234 I found a cool article about the missile site I mentioned above, this is the one we used to go up to, "Los Pinetos Nike Missle Site"

https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/nike_la94_lospintetos.htm

 

So that's why the seat trim pieces are always broken

 

There's a perfectly good 'oh shit' handle there but he grabs the steering wheel to jump in lol

 

I think that's got more to do with America's obesity problem than it does with dudes jumping into their lifted trucks

 

@Kwikvette

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