Fitting 35’s with minimal trimming NOW ADDING LONG TRAVEL AND 934 CV’s

Drove through a crazy snow storm yesterday actually

 

I saw my first snow of the season yesterday too.

 

Well it’s up and running again. Either the new pump or the aired up tires at 40psi to make it easier to push are making steering much much easier. Only shimmied around to park so the wife could get in the garage before snow tomorrow but so far so good. I’ll air back down to my normal 15-17psi at work tomorrow and test things out a bit

 

Less rolling resistance makes for a definitive change.

 

Yeah first day pushing it in and out of the garage I was like what the freaking hell!!! When did I become a weak ass lol. Aired up and it rolled like a dream lol

 

No gains, when it's easy.

 

Aired down drive home from work. Steering is very light now with the pump. Still tough at a stop but did some testing and if I bump the idle up to 800-1000rpm it should make significant improvements with that so I may mess with the tune some. All in all very pleased thus far

 

The pumps don’t really start making pressure until about 900rpm. You have an auto right? If so I’d assume you drive with two feet in the dirt so just make sure you keep the RPMs up especially when coming into corners hard on the brakes

 

Yep it’s an auto and I go back and forth with 2 foot driving. Need to get back into it and lock in the muscle memory and stick with it. Was more thinking for in the rocks though. Where I’m barely over idle and barely moving. Shit from today I’d say anything over 2mph and 1500rpm and the thing turns like a dream and I manually shift the trans for desert stuff and keep the revs from 2-4K 99% of the time. But could also 2 foot and bring the revs up in the rocks as well which I’m always driving 2 foot then.

 

Could always raise your base idle to help in the rocks too.

 

Yeah that’s what I was saying originally. Easy to do with HP tuner. I’ll drive it a bit more and actually try to crawl it on an obstacle or two and see how it does first. There’s a nice downed tree about 40” around right when I enter the forest by me that’s been my flex tester and it always pulls the wheel hard when going up it. I’ll see how hard it pulls the wheel now sometime this weekend as a first indicator of how it will do in the rocks

 

My guess is you will want it up. I set mine at 950. I was able to get away with it for the most part but steering definitely gets tight if it starts lugging at all.

 

Just did the LCA pivots, upper arms, spindle gussets, upper arm double shear, steering double shear, front skid plate, fox DSC all around, bolt in Deavers and the TC pump kit... all I can say is wow! The pump makes such a big difference and the truck is really enjoyable to drive now. Thanks @01 dhrracer for letting me do my thing on this one!

 

Fu*king drool!! Ok, I'm definitely going down this route when I can afford it! That can all be done in stages, ya?

 

So, in my brain storming of how to make this steering even better I had a thought. What if one were to replace the slide rack with a hydro ram? You could essentially have full Hydro while maintaining the mechanical link. You could theoretically block off the flow control lines to the rack and use the flow control valve as a servo for the ram. It would make the factory rack only partially power. Am I on something good today, or is this actually a legitimate idea?

 

We already went down this road and the problem is packaging with the ram. You will have to cut out one side of the front crossmember completely in order to get the ram to stroke correctly. It gets to the point where you’re trying too hard to desperately make the rack work. If you want to spend the time and money to do it right put a steering box on the truck with a swing set in place of the rack and run the ram to the relay rod in front of the crossmember

 

Just to make sure we are in the same page. Like this?

 

Yes exactly and we even spoke with Sweet about making a specific rack for the Tacoma. There isn’t enough room for what’s available and making an entirely new custom setup was way too expensive. Again it’s just gets to the point where what are you desperately trying to save?

Think about this...a Corvette has more than enough HP and torque to tow a 12k lbs trailer but you wouldn’t spend endless time and money trying to convert the corvette into a tow rig. So just because your Tacoma has 4x4 doesn’t mean it makes sense spends endless time and money trying to make it into a rock buggy.

 

I'm really not trying to desperately save anything. I am trying to find an option for my situation that will work. I like the fact I can go grab a new rack any time I need. I don't like the fact that I'm about to do round 2 of rack seals since may. I guess that's what I'm trying to fix. Considering I cant find a long term solution to my dirt intrusion issue, the next idea was eliminating that issue all together by depowering the rack.

 

Then put a steering box on