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

touched dirt today and nothing broke… hmm

 

Shoots my bad should have asked what kind lift you were running

 

Took it camping over the weekend. Also decided I’m gonna leave to softopper on for awhile cus I think it looks too good not to.

 

that's cool

 

I wouldn't say it's a bad design just because it doesn't add castor.

I have the solo arms and while there is some benefits to the added castor from the LBJ, it also does change how the truck handles a bit. I also wouldn't say this is a bad thing really. But some might actually not like how it feels.

YMMV

And anyways, the TC do move the LBJ forward.

https://www.chaosfab.com/product/19...eries-Stock-Length-Lower-Control-Arms-96555-E

As well as a dual shock tab and tab for limit straps.

 

Almost $1k more expensive than the solo ones tho

 

yeah that's a bit much.

I'd probably do the BTF ones if I was buying today.

 

You’ll rarely hear complaints of having too much caster, on the contrary, you’ll hear many wish they could add more…..but ok, fair enough.

Just glad that the OP got the redesigned arms.
TC seems to think that adding caster is an improvement worthy of a redesign.

 

I wish they had a limit strap tab. Otherwise they look like the way to go.

Overpriced bullshit. And if they are anything like many of their other products they will require massaging to fit properly.

More caster is always better IMO. I know some say that 1-2* is plenty, but it sure isn't for me. Jealous of your 5*.

 

I can agree to that. 2deg is the minimum, 3+ mo better

 

Sounds like a great weekend! We love hearing that you’re enjoying the look of your Softopper so much you’re keeping it on. Here’s to plenty more camping trips ahead!

 

The Softoppers do look good. Mind sits a little lower the the top of the roof wich looks a little off but its nice to have.

 

When I was looking for mine, I looked at Solo and BTF, BTF offered to weld a tab on mine for my limit strap. And they were slightly cheaper.

 

I'll hop on the Softopper train.

This was by far my favorite camping set up. Softopper over rooftop tent. Closed up for driving and wheeling, folded forward and tent popped for camping. Softopper protected the tent from the elements and hid it away from the general population. Tent over the bed kept center of gravity low, helped with weight distribution, and still left me plenty of room to store all my camping/wheeling gear.

Stealth mode:


Under bed storage:


Camp mode:

 

That is very good to know. Thanks for sharing that. That makes them my first choice.

 

I passed smog today. Not bad for 285k

 

Solo have limit strap tabs, and hydro bump strike pads which it doesn’t look like the others offer. Same price as BTF.

 

Is that new. I know they had swabar tabs. I guess you could use thoes.

 

Huh, didn’t even think that was what that would be for. Haven’t had a sway bar for 15 years, kinda forgot they existed.

It does look like the design has been updated though, the tab is sticking off the side. Definitely wouldn’t work for a stock sway bar.

 

1" body lift is probably the cheapest. Otherwise an adjustable UCA and max out the lower cams. Or hammer the hell out of things.

Start pushing things forward too much and the front of the fender we'll become a problem.