1 ton first gen Tacoma

That’s drivers side pics I have Buddy on my phone

 

Seems about like mine. I’m assuming my fox shock eyelets are a hair closer I suppose, compared to kings. Cause they look very similar.

 

I can tell you one thing my coils are close as shit to my radius arms that’s why I had to use the 2.5s it’s Less than 1/4 inch plus when I cut the old panhard bar mount out i installed new one and I had to cut the adjustment bolt down to make front axle centered in front of truck

 

That’s a pic of my new panhard bracket installed during the build if you can move it further over to the passenger side so you don’t have to cut the bolt like I did just a heads up

 

That’s something I noticed as well. Mine are about a half inch maybe as well. And that’s good to know on the pan hard! I haven’t welded it in yet due to not having any weight yet. But I’ll make sure it’s good before final fitment.

 

What was it actually hitting? You have a closer pic of where you have it mounted to axle?

 

Ya man where your bracket is welded to frame for panhard bar is maybe a half inch from where my steering rod hooks up to steering rod everything is so tight but I haven’t had any issues I doing high steer this summer but I’ll tell you one thing with the stock steering without the dual stabilizer kit I added drove like shit death wobble throwing you out of the truck status I ended up ordering the dual stabilizer kit through bds this thing with the beadlocks and 42inch iroks not even balanced drives like a Cadillac no shimmy at any speed and tightened everything up like a brand new truck night and day difference

 

Wasn’t hitting anything just front axle was not centered to the vehicle and my passenger side coil was leaning towards the radius arm way more than the drivers side with it not being centered and it pissed me off so I cut adjusted bolt down to pull front end center of truck

 

Also I cut the back of bracket out to make it so it fit better with the rounding from my radius arms cause solid back without notching it out had the bracket shoved forward to where my steering rod and panhard were almost touching here’s a pic how I did my brack if you want to copy it I used a skinny wheel drilled two holes where I was cutting to to round everything

 

Trying to help out as much as I can man I just don’t want you to run into the troubles I had but I will give it to you straight everything that I did has turned out for the best and no complaints or regrets

 

I appreciate it greatly man. All this makes it worth the build. And it puts the knowledge out there for others in the future! I’m really anxious to get moving forward. Only downfall is the single digit temps this week. But I will be hot and heavy with updates on everything soon, as I go.

 

So that’s how they sent the bracket, and I tacked it on. Looks legit, just very minimal amount of places to weld it on securely. How far back and more passenger did you go with yours?

 

Yours looks high my rounded part goes around my axle flush

 

I grinded the parts I have circled in blue flush to round with axle housing and my bracket sits lower but is straight up and down flush against the radius arm bracket and is flush again against housing it’s a bitch to grind the big thick piece you cut off but I cut as much as I could towards axle housing with skinny wheel then ground the rest

 

Hope that helps buddy I think you should mount it lower so you can get more places to weld in place around axle housing

 

I gotcha my friend! It sorta fits how I have it, but with minimal weld area. Makes more sense to cut it clean and do what you did. Love the insight, other than the - temps this week. I’m slowly getting out and piecing it together! Thanks man!

 

Not a problem man ya that’s what I did wanted more area to be able to weld it solid that’s why I cut back of bracket too to make it fit around the radius arm bracket if you did the same you would be happier I think and it fits very nice any questions man I’m here

 

Also steering rod is tight as hell the the coil towers any farther forward I would of had to notch those too

 

Yeah I’m not happy with the shock towers. Wfo told me they “don’t really fit”, but can be made to work. Since they have them for the d44 kits as well. I was like, “thanks for letting me know lol”. But hey, it’s all custom in the end. I had to lift mine up and push them way back. Been a nightmare.

 

That’s the only way I could get the shocks to not be in a bind...