My 98 Taquito build

I have the 450s in the garage if you want to try them out to sorta gauge what rating your shooting for,

 

its not bad on the rough stuff, but im not always hitting it hard. im thinking about going with a 400-450# tender coil. either 4 or 6" to soften up the light running, and maybe keep the 600, possibly go down to a 550 main coil. what length coil are you running ?

 

I'm running a 18" coil on a 8" RR fox shock. Do you have a 4banger or 6? And do you have a tube bumpr or anything?

 

That's an 18" 600lb coil.

 

damn well done bud

 

its a JD fabrication 5 lug. uppers were converted to heims before i got it. i like it alot, its just the coil situation that is killing me at the moment. i need to get it figured out before next saturday's ocotillo trip.

 

After months of procrastinating I finally hooked my place up to support my 240v welder to continue working on my truck myself instead of shop time.

So the rear of my truck sat a tad stink bug so I pulled the truck in the garage and fabbed up some 10" shackles to replace the 12"'s I am running. I have Deaver F67's and already pulled 2 leafs so i didnt want to pull anymore out to drop it. I could have added more preload to my front suspension but that would have done two things 1) increased my spring rate and 2) reduce my droop (down) travel. neither which I wanted to do because my front seems pretty good as it sits. here is my shackles next to the 12"s.



and mounted...



I used 1.5" .120 wall DOM tubing mocking the 12" design and material but shortened. I welded everything together using .30 solid wire and 75% argon to 25% Carbon Dioxide.

they came out pretty good, it lowered my truck to the height I wanted BUT... at a neutral on its own weight the shackles angle is about 45/50% back (which is great) but are 1" from hitting the underside of my frame rail. I hit a road dip pretty hard to see if it would tap the frame and it does. Im going to throw those two leafs I pulled out back in the pack and cross my fingers this will give the leaf pack that extra spring rate and clearance I need. I built and installed these 10" shackles knowing I would go back to the 12"s once I finished the rear of my truck (boxing the frame, finishing my dual spare mount, more tube bracing, jack and mount) these things would def give me the weight I need to replace the 12"s to be at the ride height and forward to rear weight balance Im looking for. I was going to weld on my VHF antenna mount and more front skid plate braces but I figured I have a drink and veg out for the rest of the day. more updates to come....

on a side not holy crap a bottle and shielding gas is insane. $225 bucks for both and I only got a size 60!!! I remember in Washington a size 80 rental and gas was only $60 bucks.

 

I dont know why that pic doesnt show up as vertical, I changed and saved it under my pics as such but it wont show up here normal.

 

Should be out in Plaster City with me and Matt right now bro

 

I know.... How is it out there?

 

It was awesome, great weather. We spent most of the time messing around with the bypasses

 

i cant believe i haven't seen this build before, nice work.

 

Wow i have not seen this truck before. Another LT 5 lug 1st gen ftw!

 

did you get them dialed in?

 

thanks!

Hahaha

 

I think Matt may be getting a revalve on his rears

 

my bro just texted me, told me my truck was on the total chaos website under the pics section... stoked! http://www.chaosfab.com/96-04-Toyota...Kit-98000.html

also in off-road magazine-http://www.off-roadweb.com/readersrides/1203or_off_road_readers_rides_march_2012/viewall.html

 

are you away for work right now? havnt seen the truck there in a while...

 

I'm back now