What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

They were going to talk to their R&D department to see if it was viable to add stock sized mounts and a little length added to it. All I'm waiting back in, from that phonecall and a follow up email weeks later is a yes or no. That shouldnt take 3 months to determine in my mind.

 

They probably laughed at putting 2.5 performance shocks on stock mounts and didn't waste any more time.

 

Realized I had no idea which torque spec I used on my lower ball joints a couple years ago, before I had read that LBJ bolt mega thread. Bought all new bolts (the black ones), chased the threads, and torqued to 37 ft lbs

 

https://www.adsshocks.com/products/direct_fit/mesa/parts/100ADS-10115

They make em for 2nd gen's

 

2nd gens have much better stock shock geometry, double shear lower mounts, etc.

 

Fair

 

That's what I'd have done. They were probably a little more respectful than me though and didn't laugh while the phone call was still alive

 

I guess they didn't want me to send them a few thousand dollars

 

And they would have lost a few thousand on R&Ding, building, stocking, marketing, etc for shocks that they will sell one or two pairs a year. Business.

I'm surprised anyone is in the 1st gen aftermarket business, to be honest.

 

Do they move the LBJ forward at all?

 

I installed a dual colored LED dome light. Open the door again / cycle the lights power, and it will switch to red. Also swapped the glove box light to red. Now I have 14 extra of these red LED's if anyone wants one.

 

Eh I doubt it , even if they could just knock out the heim joints and stuff a rubber bushing in there would've been fun with me. But alas, my money stays in my pocket and I'll just find a different solution.

 

Finally pulled the old vapor barrier off, lubed up all the door and lock internals along with the window internals. After being busted for 16 years, it's a nice surprise I can open the door again.

More tape than plastic

 

I’m sure they didn’t want to be dicks, I think you got your answer though.

Why not do custom mounts?

 

They move the lower ball joint 1 inch forward.

 

Had to ask didn't you

 

Nice. they used to be factory LBJ position, so good to hear they changed that.

 

Full trans control by the Haltech. Yay.

The ability to monitor trans temps in the IC7 dash. Yay.

And I have use of cruise control again. Yay, Yay, Yay.

A huge thanks to Zane and Jayson for all of their efforts. This is a big deal.

@Speedytech7
@2RZNoShi1

 

Feels pretty great to have nice new plastic. Looks great! I was so happy with mine until I had to peel it back to replace the exterior door handle, had me thinking of redoing it yet again.

 

Because it's not feasible within the bounds of financial sense? At this rate my only option looks to be to have a spring shop pull a leaf out of the alcans and run it as is. I just need a longer shock to run in the stock locations but I'm baffled that there isn't a decent off the shelf option for a shock with a 3-4" lift in the rear. I would have liked adjustable ads front and rear but that isn't an option since their "direct fit" line of products don't fit. I guess it didn't seem like a crazy ask for them to weld on different eyelets on the end of the shock to allow the use of the larger diameter shock mount stud.

And based on the fact others here are getting ghosted, I think they have poor customer service right now and it has nothing to do with the what I'm asking. Are you suggesting they are ignoring @treyus30 for similar reasons?