Long Travel Taco

anyone want to buy my rear shocks? they'll be coming off this weekend.

 

What are they being replaced with?

 

longer ones. lol I do one mod, then that leads to another, then more mods to support the first mod. About to be on my 3rd set of suspension in the rear. now to sell stuff to pay for new shocks.

 

How is the otto navi working for you? I think your the first person I've seen that has actually installed one of the OEM looking nav units in their truck. I've wanted one but could never find any reviews on them.

 

It's been ok so far, there's been some stuff I would have liked that the unit does not do. And I did run into some issue with the GPS once freezing. But it's been working. Here is my previous review:

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/au...avi-oem-look-navigation-tacoma-05-review.html

 

Oh damn same here I am on my second rear set up about to change it up again! looks like I have some competition selling my rear Kings.....Good thing mine are only 2 months old and have adjusters

What are your plans for the rear now?

 

not sure now, from what I've read in the mid travel thread, guess I'll have to go Shock hoops? I was just going to get custom built kings with the travel I needed.

 

the sticker and grille mod is sick!!!

 

Send me a pm with your cell and ill help you figure out what you need. And explain/break it down.

 

Thanks to Jerry @ Bay Area Metal Fab & Eric for coming in and helping out, MID Travel Rear:

Birds Eye View!


Cutting OEM Mounts:


New Shock Tower Tacked up! ( The Spot on the right is where the resi mount is )


New Shock Mounts on Axle:


Welded the other shock tower together:





Prep:


Bolted up!


Sitting Back on the new setup:




Mall Crawling it!


Also Did the Total Chaos Tower Gussets:

 

BOSS!!!

 

Nice build!

 

thanks MJ

thanks

Hoping to get the rest of the rear end figured out, going to have to switch out the shackle flip for OEM until BAMF comes out with one.

 

Damn that is a nice list of items you got on your build. Truck looks great. Subbed for outcome on the rear and future projects.

 

Yeah I sold my fabjunkie flip before install because of all the commotion. Getting an ATO flip in a few weeks when I pick up my rear bumper

 

Very nice. Beat me to the punch on this. Got one going on in a few weeks.

Edit: You sure you're not topping those shocks out at full stuff? I read on page one they're 12" travel. What kind of rear end travel did you have with the shocks off?

 

At full stuff the shocks is maxed out. Unfortunately we didn't get before measurements that I remember.

 

On my rig with the ATO shackle flip, shocks off, I measured just over 13" of travel at the stock shock eyelets. I was fully stuffed on one side, and the drooped wheel was off the ground. Travel will of course change depending on how far inboard or outboard on the axle you mount the shock. Then of course there's angle mounting as well.

If you moved those shocks inboard of the frame, you probably wouldn't top them out at full stuff.

Since the cat's already out of the back in my last post: ATO and I are going to be stuffing 15in travel shocks under my rig at the end of august. Similar to the setup you have here, but slightly different. Looking forward to comparing notes

You could keep from beating your shocks up too much by increasing the height of your bumpstops a little. Save some $$.

 

cool, sounds good, I plan on upgrading bumps, we'll see what I end up with.

 

If you plan on longer shackles at all get those in first before you buy longer bumps. I am thinking of going this direction. Once i have them dialed in I am going to cut off the excess rear holes on the bracket so the shackle will compress all the way up to the frame essentially. This will reduce some of the negative arch and should (theoretically) reduce the size bump stop I need to get. With any luck I might even be able to leave the factory stop on the top of the U Bolt Flip but I am doubting that.