Long Travel BS Thread

I think you’re missing something there.

 

Oops

 

When fiberglass

 

Whenever I fix my inner fenders. After this trip my core support has decided to split off the rest of the truck.

I see an engine cage in my future

 

Solid desert trip

 

Perhaps more than just engine

 

Still pretty crude. But I’m sure you get the idea.

 

Kinda looks similar to what I got going on

 

The pivot gusseting is sexy AF!

 

Of course. When that time comes it'll be tied into a cab cage and then the bed cage.

 

Yea earlier trucks are lucky to have easier packaging on that one haha

 

Other than costing a lot, how bad of an idea would IRS be? Thoughts?

 

https://www.race-dezert.com/forum/threads/2008-toyota-tacoma-sema-irs-truck.138282/

 

I think about this a lot. IRS or a dedion setup is in my 5 yr plan for my truck.
The major hurdles are: yes, costing a lot, and getting the truck balanced and light enough that your spring rates aren't ridiculous, shocks are actually tunable, payload doesn't go to shit. Packaging the shocks is a little tough as well. Other than that it'd be a relatively easy job for a decent fabricator since there's so much room. The way Toyota did theirs (posted above me) looks like it would work really well and is fairly simple

Easiest way i've thought of so far is Sequoia or Tundra front end; like diff, spindles, axles, then flip the diff upside down and fab up the rest. You could probably even get away with buying an off the shelf Tundra LT kit and just fab up the mounts. Very surprised nobody has tried that yet

 

The guy behind the Raptor apparently worked for TRD, bumped heads with toyota, left to give ford the raptor idea. Which we've seen how that went, and it got toyota to tuck tail and do this + all the trd pro stuff

 

Where did you hear this? I would like to know more

 

instagram post from one of the other guys there. Wish i remembered his name on there but it was just one of the random posts on my search page

 

Now look the TRD Pro. Yo dog, we puts shocks on your seat Yo! They must of been on a Xibit bender designing those. Plus, oh lets make any and all back seats completely unusable in the Tacoma and 4runner and the "rebooted" LC

 

There is a guy building an IRS first gen single cab on fb. I think expedition rear suspension?

 

Won’t lie, the pivots do give a dang nice base to get creative with.