Long Travel BS Thread

true story, myself included (waiting on a tundra rear now as the tacoma one is toast)

 

What’s your total weight? Did the axle tube bend or you blew the diff.?

 

Any of you dudes at the expo this weekend?

Was pretty stoked to have my shitbox amongst some rad trucks...





Had to pull a little line for the Izzy fab dudes after their winch died on them...





got truck parked then needs a little tug... so fired her back up and pulled a little more line
















And then the boys letting us hang out in their booth was just rad...









Black male ( ) for later....




5:30 Sunday loaded up and hit the pike home... no trailer needed Yea, drove it there and back haha




Good Times !

 

ha Both actually. Blew the diff in Baja,limped home replaced then something was still off and axle housing is also bent.

it's heavy. I vary but loaded up 6500-7k. Ive been looking for weight to lighten mostly likely the rear bumper and front are big killers in this. I removed my spare, all my skids and any gear I would pack and got down to 6200 (still had sliders, front bumper, rear swingout and a camper on it)

That combo and an old baja 1000 track not a good combo for the stock parts with that weight.

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx86kO2p2hd/

 

Good times indeed! Cool seeing ya guys again. And thanks again for the stickers! Gotta get stuff painted so I can add some to the rig.

Expo had tons of cool rigs. Surprisingly not too many newer tacomas. So many built rangers, my goodness.

 

Kevin with dialed finally had his truck done enough to roll out - had some cool limit strap mounts





@Supra4x4 is that better for you? Haha

 

Your battery and my ocd are very thankful haha

 

yea thing was looking good almost have nerf it to a stop getting it off the trailer.

 

No problem appreciate the support.

Hope to see ya out at the Clean up!

 

lol that's a creative way to use air cylinder clevis mounts

edit: nvmd. Saw on his page that he machines these custom. Though they look identical to clevis mounts I used to use for mounting industrial air cylinders

 

Like this….


these are for some linear actuators we are installing.

 

yea exactly like those. Makes me think I could just go get an SMC mount and repurpose it for a limit strap mount like his

 

Another 3link kit on the market

https://wicked-creations.com/wc-2005-2022-toyota-tacoma-3-link-kit/

 

This looks like another 3 link kit that prioritizes being linked more than it does travel... hard to tell because the pictures are for ants:





But those shock mounts look lower than even e.g., Archive's mid travel SOA relocation.

 

!? A 16" shock mounted that low !? If you look at the shot from under the truck it looks like it only has a few inches of up travel at the most. That is only going to be 16" of travel and it's going to be 3" up and 13" down. I do understand that crawler guys don't care about up travel as much but unless I'm missing something that kit just seems...wrong ?

 

I have no idea how they're getting a 16" shock there. You don't even get full travel on a 14" shock on Archive's relocation and they're cut through into the bed.

Doesn't seem worth it.

 

That's gotta be a 12 inch shock. My 16 are level with my bedside through the bed.

 

Look at the photos on the website, the body of the shock goes way down...

 

I think they're 16s the bottom end of them is just mounted down onto the axle. It just looks very odd.