What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Its less about amplifying the weight in the bags but making sure you don't over amplify the weight behind the axle. Too much weight behind the axles lifts the weight on the front of the vehicle causing the front tires to push when turning and going over bumps instead of steering. Proper or heavier amount of weight over the axle is always safer from a stability standpoint than overly heavy weights behind the axle. Not everyone is a mathematician or physicist so its always recommended to people to just throw the weight over the axle. If you are one of the select few who can calculate max weight + down force at the weights position behind the axle as to not lift weight from the front you are a smarter man than I. Since I cant I throw weight over the axle.

 

well to each there own, no offence but maybe a little more schooling in physics iis needed, putting 500#s near the tailgate would make that front end a little squirrely on ice, distributing the weight over the bed is the way to go. you certainly want weight over your drives, not unlike loading a trailer. However what ever works for ya (maybe your post was for humor)

 

Yes,
Loading past the axle would create a lever that pivots at the axle.
Loading on or before the axle would weight the axle.

 

Finished my de-badging over the weekend. No more Tacoma badges on the front doors, and I took the pinstripes off, too. All that's left is "Toyota Tacoma" on the driver side of the tailgate.

 

I did the exact same thing to mine this weekend.

 

First off, nobody said to put 500 lbs of sand in the bed for traction purposes. 200-250 is plenty. Secondly, the tongue weight limit when towing is around 500 lbs (*give or take) so you could safely put 500 lbs near the tailgate and be fine with regard to steering. Remember there is a pretty heavy engine up front. Your not gonna pull a wheelie.

 

Weird how yours is a different style. Are they different for the 2.5 gens?

 

i looked at my ODO the other day. i dont know how i got to 190k miles so quickly. i called a mechanic friend and he is gonna flush my transmission for me tomorrow.

my mechanic is in another town, but i trust him..he said he will do it while i wait. he bought the fluid already. i'll get some chinese grocery shopping done while he does the work.

 

OK, so you're saying since its a pivot point that there would be no additional downward force at the wheels on the ground? That's makes no sense. Additional weight in the bed, no matter where it's placed, is going to make the back end of the truck heavier. There will be more downward force at the wheels the further back the weight is placed. Period.

 

Anywhere weight is place at the back end is going to have a lifting effect on the front end. All I'm saying is you can carry less weight in the bed, say 200 lbs at the tailgate and have the same effect as say 220 lbs at the cab end of the bed.

 

archive flip kit and I used a 4Runner bump stop kit. The Tacoma bump stop kit has the tabs that go under the square u bolts. I wanted something that had holes that would line up with the holes on the flip kit.

 

Just different manufacturers, his looks to be Archives.

 

Nope that is incorrect. The rear axle and the front of the truck is what would be considered a first class lever. Weight applied at or before the axle (fulcrum) keeps weight on both the front and rear of the vehicle, weight after the axle would cause lift on the front. A great amount of effort is needed to lift the front of the vehicle and these trucks aren't clearly going to wheelie or anything with a few sand bags in the back. However even slight effort pushing the front up is a decrease in potential traction the front has which is the greatest danger in this. When weight in the bed is most needed is when traction both front and back are critical (slippery roads). Greater increase on the rear with even the slightest decrease on the front could be the difference between spinning out or not. Placing the weight at or in front of the axle creates the most optimal down force on all four tires when driving.

Granted 20lbs of down force behind the axle isn't going to equate to a lot of up force on the front of the vehicle while its rolling on flat ground, but what happens when you hit a dip in the road and your front suspension rebounds pushing the front up and you have extra weight behind the axle making that rebound easier. The front rebounds further than it needs to creating more lift on the front tires decreasing traction. Now instead of having 200lbs spread across all 4 tires in some form you have 200lbs pulling the rear down as the front lifts.

 

Cleaned her up, debating on selling.

 

Class is in session!

 

Sorry, not buying what you're selling. Every other vehicle on the road has more weight in the back than a pickup truck. A couple hundred lbs in the bed even behind the axle is not going to send you out of control. People tow with more than 200lbs on the hitch, which if I remember correctly is behind the rear axle.

 

If you were a little closer, I’d have you price me the soft top! If you’d sell it separately...

 

I do love the softopper!

 

Would you sell it separately?