Long Travel BS Thread

Curiosity question, what was the culprit to your wandering issue?

 

Mine was a bent rear housing.

 

I think it was a broken leaf center pin, when my pin broke my truck had some the same symptoms but only when getting on the throttle and letting off. Give gas and the truck would load up and want to push me into the right lane, let off at speed and the truck would settle back down to the driverside.

 

That was my assumption the whole time as well. Just never heard back what it ended up being.

 

Agreed as I’m setting aside cash for a replacement pack because I’m too poor to switch to links

 

Shackle uniballs , and very tight rack, inner and outter plus new( UCA/LCA) uniballs in the front( all replaced at once). once those got broken in and the new rear shackle uniballs the truck has been amazing.

basically when you corrected say to the left...it stayed left and had to be physically correct by the driver.

 

The center pin was not broken, moved slightly but was intact

 

Your truck is nearly back-halved already isn't it? With all the work you've done to the rear portion, I'm surprised you haven't switched. But perhaps that's because your out using the the truck versus having it down for months of install. Plus costs lol.

Links seem like a full send in-and-of themselves. Don't really see anyone half-assing a linked build. ...Unless that's the reason some of us have gone leafs because we can't send it all the way for links

 

Honestly never would have guessed shackles causing that. Glad it’s fixed either way!

 

Links are for chains anyway! everyone knows leaf springs party harder

 

I posted in this thread a video of them clunking and moving alot, you commented it was the uniballs in the shackles

 

I probably did. Just didn’t think it would cause rear steer issues I guess. Makes some sense though

 

if you think about it, the shackle moving a lot laterally coupled with a tight front end that wont center on its own would do what my issues were. Once the shackles were fixed the darting stopped but the drifting all over the road continued until my first dirt trip.
Now down the road even with the alignment off just a touch I can drive with 2 fingers at hwy speeds.

 

Makes me wonder if the fresh uniballs were just that tight or? I know one of mine I had to make a new crush sleeve. Would tighten the bolt and the shackle was almost impossible to move. Had a buddy cut one a few thousandths longer.

 

Are you guys torqueing that Upper 3/4" Bolt the +200ft.lbs according to the bolt torque charts? I did mine at 200ftlbs plus another 45° with Blue Threadlocker

 

the bolt for the shackle to hanger? I tighten mine to "I dont want it to loosen up while driving in the desert". I use the biggest wrench I could find and a breaker bar and go crazy.

 

Ive been driving my wife's raptor a bit, and it really makes me think this. Imagine I did what I did to my tacoma, but to a raptor. Im not saying performance is all that much better, im sure the tacoma would still probably do some things better (cheaper, lighter, V8), but it would be nice to be prerunning with AC seats, and looking so much cooler while doing it.

That being said, im still really happy with my truck minus the whole 3 motors and 3 transmissions thing

 

If my truck ever gets totaled by someone else, im getting a raptor.

I could've bought a pretty clean 1gen raptor for how much I bought my truck brand new for.

1st Gen raptors with the 6.2 and a 2nd gen front clip has my name written all over it haha

 

Let me give you context that gives you the true difference between WHY you’d pick the full size truck over a Tacoma.


Center mount

other than that, the taco is fine


Cause if you do to your raptor what you do to your taco
You’ll be even wider than the taco and have the exact same issues from the taco
But now the fix is a premium because the person working on it is now working on a premium truck
Ie 30k truck
80k truck


Aside from that
Linking a taco is fun if you hate money
But otherwise it will never perform the same as a full size chassis even with matching tires, motor and wheelbase because to make a taco do full size shit
You would be stuck to a 2 MAYYYYYBE 3 seater max
And the compromises would be endless

 

Idk man, I’m sitting in the raptor right now and the interior is super nice. And big. And my mirrors fold. And I have memory seats, electronic power steering, lockers, adaptive cruise with lane assist.

I wonder how all those systems would act with a full LT setup lol. Wonder if it could still drive itself.