AZ BS Thread 4²0

The snow at Tahoe is insane, I saw a ski patrol guy hanging out at the top of a ski lift mast that's like 35' in the air.

 

I'm thinkin' the sway bar conversation has run its course.....

Thank you so much for your contribution though!!

 

Got a dumb question that probably doesn't deserve its own thread. Is this an excessive amount of preload difference between sides? I swear it wasn't this bad before I took everything apart and put it back together last year, but maybe I'm just losing it. It's still not even level yet, I probably need the driver's side to come up by another 1/4-1/2" and that's without me in the driver's seat.



I have a slightly heavier battery over stock (56lb) and a 3 gallon Rotopax mounted on the driver's side, but otherwise the weight distribution should be pretty similar to a stock truck.

 

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I put a 1/4” shim on my DS to solve that…

 

Everyone tries to solve taco lean by adjusting their coilovers or adding shims on top of the strut but a lot of the time you need to address it from the rear suspension. That appears to be way too much preload, look at how the spring is bending. You can confirm it by cruising fast over a speed bump to see if it tops out really hard when the wheel rebounds on the backside of the bump.

 

Drive 5000 miles a month for 2 years, never get a flat. Quit my job and stop driving and this happens. I was headed up to Flagstaff to get some pow in the morning until this happened. Only made it to i17 and Thunderbird. Heard a super loud clicking outta nowhere, clicking stopped and tire immediately went flat. My spare is getting pretty bald so I decided not to drive into snowy shitty conditions with no spare and on one slightly bald tire. Should be repairable but now its really time to start shopping for 37s.

 

I wasn't even paying attention to the spring going wonky - good call. Thinking I'll back that off and maybe drop the passenger's side just a tad until I can address the rear end. The rebound has always felt pretty harsh on this truck even when the preload was reasonable so I guess I've kinda tuned it out.

How does one address this from the rear? Shim the driver's side under the leaf pack, or have the driver's pack arched differently from passenger's side or something? Definitely need to look into a new setup back there - I'm running the original leafs with the overload swapped for an Icon AAL pack and they're TIRED. Now I'm going down a rabbit hole of looking at Archive Garage hangers and a shock relocation and debating whether I should go SUA even though I know the front end will never keep up........

 

Anything significant you do in the front will never never balance well with any sua setup. Sua makes everything better and you want the rear to outperform the front anyways.

As for battling taco lean, move any weight you can, to the passenger side. Little things add up. Also loving the battery to the middle of the truck (front to back) or even the rear of the truck takes that big load off of sitting directly above the driver side coil over.

 

I think I have my sisters fiancé down to do some plinking the next time I'm up there on some AR500 I use, and he's a bit of a city slicker...

Anyone have good suggestions to get some pew pew on? They live near Thunderbird and the 17. I know where to around Tucson, no fucking clue for PHX. If you don't wanna spill a good spot on this thread, just send a PM. TIA

 

Blows my wife’s mind that I’ll already have some friends across the country before we even get there.

 

My wife’s used to it by now. But there was a time early in the relationship that she was concerned at times.

Like you sure we should be selling catalytic converters at a semi sketchy gas station? (My stock y pipe)

 

Yeah, that's fair. The other thing is just me being indecisive about where to go with the build. It's gonna spiral into me wanting bigger tires to gain some clearance back and glass to clear them with the extra uptravel and LT in the front and a cage (it looks like you know how that goes ) The other part of me thinks I should slap a new SOA leaf pack in there and be happy with the clearance and my 33s since I haven't been doing much go-fast stuff these days anyway. Maybe I'm underestimating how sweet a rig like that would be on the rockier/more technical stuff...

I'll have to pull my "stuff" off the truck and see how it sits. I did shuffle my tools/recovery gear around a bit, maybe that's doing more than I think.

 

Check this out if you haven't already: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...&ll=33.88908306923316,-111.87802526060072&z=9

 

Looks to me that you need to evaluate your coil springs first.... swapping to a heavier and maybe longer spring should get you right. And like others have said..... The rear can have a heavy affect on the front and shifting any weight you can to the passenger side(front and rear) wil help dramatically.

 

Gotta lern somehow boy lmao

 

I had to.

Bummer you missed a sesh tho.

 

BA DUM TSS!!!

 

So fucking true. And same about my wife was weirded out by it but not any more.