Long Travel BS Thread

Wife’s off-road damn near kills me every time I drive it. Drive into a corner hard? ABS. Brake hard, ABS. Sneeze, ABS.

 

Remember the ABS sound every time I'd come up to an intersection with any amount of icy snow on the ground back in the day in my family's 1st gen Tacoma. Don't think they actually improved on the system for the 2nd gens.

 

Maybe the 3rd gen ABS is less sensitive than the 2nd gen but my ABS has triggered exactly once and it was when the 101 went from 85 to a dead stop in a quarter mile. That was the day I decided to upgrade my brakes, relatedly. But wow, experiencing ABS regularly sounds miserable.

 

you are correct, no issues and ive had it on the truck for years now. im a firm beliver ABS will put you in the ditch

 

Been like that for 6 years now no problem.

We used to use it in motocross applications as well. Bumps do not extend with any great amount of force so the pvc isn’t experience a large shock load or anything either. Not like it’s taking the compression hit

 

Abs kill switch was the safest thing I did for off-roading when I'm trying to stop from going over a sand cliff and my foot kept getting pushed back lol

 

Exactly what I did.
I liked the ABS for freeway miles when it was a daily... under normal conditions, average drivers, and relatively stock cars you can't beat ABS.
Offroad 100% however, no ABS is superior. Best of both worlds!

 

Front end is a wrap! On to the rear corrections!

 

Eh, the ABS in my truck is way too eager to engage prior to lock up. Someone pulled out in front of me and it almost killed me by engaging prematurely. Also did it on an uphill off-ramp just with normal smooth slow braking.

 

What kind of front spring rate/length is everyone running? I’ve been on 600’s but always thought it might have been a little too much. And now I have a bunch of weight gone from the front. Considering a 500lb.

 

I don’t hate my ABS?

Do a lot of city commuting and 75mph to 0 during rush hour, but it hasn’t tried to kill me?

 

My front end is pretty minimal.
I’m still on 16x600. Camberg gives an option of 18x500 for my kit. When I had talked to accu tune a while ago they recommended I stay with the 16x600.
I’ve never had an issue that I’d attribute to too-high a spring rate. Maybe if you most do lots of crawling I could see going low spring rate ? Better flex from IFS that way.

 

I was fine with my 16x650 on the +4 kit.

 

How much preload on the nut? Mine is up as far as it will go before it hits the fitting.

 

Just pulled this off last weekend.

 

Are you on 18” 600? Im on 16” 650s (2.25) and am very similar preload wise to ronron

 

maaaaan you know I love the 18”x500.

 

I love my 18” 500 too.
When I first drove it fast in some scraggly rocky trails I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. No slouch in the flex department when I’m crawling for sure.

I am putting in a sway bar now since the body roll can get a little excessive on road and sketchy on side hills.

Getting updated weights front and rear in a couple days so I’ll post when I do.

 

I need help.

Got my tundra booster installed, but they didn’t ship me the master cylinder. I took the sequoia master cylinder from original Tacoma booster and took the adapter plate and extension off, and bolted it up to the tundra booster. Tried bleeding the brakes tonight and the most I get is a dribbling from all 4 corners, and my pedal is still very soft and just goes to the floor. Idk what’s going on lol.

 

Is the push rod / push rod adapter from the booster engaging the master fully?