Long Travel BS Thread

Easy way to tell if your caster is none or negative, when turning the steering wheel should comeback on its own, if not you need more positive caster. It's perfered to have more for pos. castor for that reason and handles better offroad. You might be able to align it completely off the cams if not you might have to adjust off the upper hiems. And always make sure your toe is good, toe is the main thing that wears your tires besides camber, and make sure you do the alignment on flat ground. Check out Jberry's thread on how to do it.

 

A little cage work on an 08 tacoma double cab at American Motorsports

 

ok i was wondering why my steering wheel wasnt coming back! haha..yeah im going to do a alignment tomorrow....my steering wheel leaves more cooked from firestone then it came in !



EDIT: it says "if you want to add more positive caster, you would rotate the front cam “shorter” and the rear cam “longer.” wont that make it more negative ?!z

 

Well actually im dumb, you have the spec sheet. lol Yea looks like neg caster on both sides. Two ways to increase Pos. caster, either unthread out hiem on upper control arm , the hiem closest to the front of the truck. Or push the cams "ones on both sides closest to rear of the truck" out. And try to align camber with front cams, but you might have to play with both.

 

I hate leaf springs. Too low, too high, too low, too high...

A.I.I.Raciing, you may have f55 rear springs? the arc looks kinda flat

 

the low caster bugs me but then i also kinda like it...so if i rotated the front cam tab to make it more posotive...then rotated the rear cam the other direction...i would have more posotive camber...and posotive caster ?

 

hmmmmmm.... think ill stick with black or go graphite though...

 

problems with the 50Ts?

 

Speaking of leaf packs keep an eye out for some f67 or 50t packs for me guys. Starting to try and piece my rear together.....

 

There F67's at least that what I think they are and the pic I posted before were when they were 1st put on the truck back in 07 and it sits exactly the same now. And from what I'm told they were brand new back then.

 

I ran 67'sbon my black truck and they flattened out pretty quick. Dunno why but I got maybe a year of abuse outta them before they needed a re-arc. Just posting my experience with those springs to help others decide.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puD63EwwFqg

 

I got an extra 50T leaf pack off my truck I will sell for $450 if anybody is interested. I also used to run Deaver F-67's but switched over to the 50T. I noticed the F-67 Deaver flattened out fast from racing (had to re-arch after every race). My 50T pack last longer. But both springs worked well

 

Hmmmm

 

Hey back off Alex

 

I'm starting to think my f67's were rearched at some point. I bought them used off a member that bought them used but nobody ever ran them. They seem to have more arch than other f67's. Ive run them for a year now and still havent even settled much more then when I installed them. When the packs were laid side by side one had about a half inch more arc than the other too, I put that pack on the gas tank side

 

Aren't u running a deaver pack? F67s?

 

Heres my F67's just sitting there, no droop, no weight.



They look flatter

 

U should take em off and selling to me