Marlin Crawler's New Rock Crawling Long Travel IFS Suspension System (#RCLT)

You can pretty easily address that with the position and relationship of the connection to the spindle. Since they have the fabbed spindle, I bet they're pretty close to right on.

 

There's absolutely no excuse not to be dead on with a fabbed spindle.

 

The geometry design is the hard part. The actual fab work isn't too bad.

 

Exactly, haha. I started out as an engineering major and changed to geology when the math started getting out of hand. I'd love to fab up an SAS truck or truggy someday, but I'd want it to be a dedicated trail rig. There's a lot to mess up with something that needs to wheel and hit highway speeds. The 4Runner has been down for 2.5 months and I'm having some serious camping/wheeling withdrawls. But with 2 kids I just can't work on it non-stop.

 

You fit into a smaller portion of this product's market in that you knew and could do what you'd be having to do to get the usefulness out of the vertical upper uniball. I don't think most guys in the market know how being geared 580:1 makes a truck look like it's climbing obstacles easily and attributed the kit to Mike's truck having such an easy time going up things.

 

I should of been more clear on a tacoma it looses steering angle. It may be more compared to a t4r rack or fj.

 

While that is apparent now, to me at least, that wasnt clear back in Feb when they started taking orders. They touted all these "industry firsts", etc. While I am well informed now, I wasn't then.

 

That is where I am at. I dont think you will need to cut the firewall, but to clear 37s you will be basically touching the back of the headlights at 2" forward.

 

Ah, yes sometimes I forget where I’m at. Tacoma travel I believe is 170mm.

 

Fair enough.

Two months is a long time without a camping trip.

 

Big Mike's marketing tactics drive me up a wall so I try to stay away from his posts, but isnt the rack an upgradeable option? Meaning you wouldn't be able to run a stock rack first and have zero (perceptible) bumpsteer and then upgrade to the 200 rack and continue to have zero bumpsteer

 

If someone was really clever with asymmetrical spacers on the outer tie rod end it could be done.

But with a LT suspension the geometry gets less precise because all the pivot radiuses are longer. The tundra rack induces viscous bump travel in OEM width, but is apparently fine in LT rigs, for example.

 

I had the exact same educational experience!

 

I'm just finishing my thesis for a Masters of Geotechnical Engineering and I can attest to the fact that the math has been very rough lol

 

As an engineering geologist... I greatly prefer the fieldwork and the writing over the math.

 

Ain’t nobody got time for a Laplace Transform.

 

Geology school was such a blast.

I work with a bunch of geotech engineers, good on you for getting through it.

Agree 100%. I'm an EG too, but I also do a lot of well drilling and hydro work (I work for LADWP)

I don't even know what that is haha

 

I prefer Fourier, personally.

 

Ain’t nobody got time for him either.

 

Anyone else get their kit yet? It seems that only one person out of this thread has received theirs so far.