Long Travel BS Thread

yeah, that's his truck. here's his build thread from DR

http://www.dezertrangers.com/vb/dr-rides/121577.htm

 

The reason I brought up the whole truss thing is back when I used to roll full sized 4x Fords, Dodge's ,etc. we always trussed our axles front & rear not only because we used to romp the shit out of them but also the weight factor, just never heard mention from anyone about going it, it seemed logical to me that when your sub framing this & gusseting that, trussing the axle would figure into the mix, linked or not thats alot of force on axle when yer mobbin'... just my $.02

 

And what I'm saying is I've never seen an axle bend at the center, and there is not much force on the upper link mounts compared to the lowers/leaf spring perches

 

sickkk

 

Yep, and the same thing will happen when you're skipping across whoops full throttle

 

That thing is sick

 

Glad to have you here man, you have a great build and a sick truck!

 

http://jsimotorsports.com/index.php...oyota/tacoma-race-long-travel-suspension.html why aren't more people running this. 17.5 in of travel

 

hmm I don't know but first thing that jumps out at me I think I'd want to gusset the shit out of those UCA mounts on the frame...

Looks pretty sick though.

 

Assuming it's similar to the Camburg Race setup, requires more custom work. Engine cage, new Shock mounts, etc!

 

Oh yeah, I can see an "engine cage required" warning label all over that.

 

workin' on my junk tomorrow at the shop finally.

New Bushings
Wheel Bearings
Adding grease zerks to my TC kit
New Heims for steering
Maybe new uniballs

Clip will be next weekend and I'll rebuild my kings and revalve them
Week after new clutch, flywheel and carrier bearing

Its a never ending game

 

i knew that....

 

Thanks!

 

so this is what i want to do to my truck... i think it would be bad ass.

ditch my tube bumper, put stock back on, replace lower valence with the TT style black shit, all new skids under engine and tranny, and get some light bars to put in the stock grill...

 

^Been thinking the same thing. I go back in forth in my head if I should leave mine on and build a skid up to the bottom of it. I think it would look good

If you look at my avatar since its small and imagine that stock skid is all beefy, that kinda what it would look like

 

yeah... great minds think alike

i think it would look killer... i want to bring my truck kinda back to stock...sleeper status

 

This is how it looks right now



I wanna either do something like this OR tuck it just under the original bumper and keep the original on there too and put the lights in the grille with the grille cut out to fit
EDITED: to non mcdonalds colors

 

yeah, burger king colors would be better haha

that would look good with the small portion of the stock bumper still there.

i want something similar, but with the TT syle lower valence like on that raptor. that looks so cool i think