Long Travel BS Thread

I'll do hydros someday. To much money for me now. But for now just wheelers super bumps

 

I had a blast of a weekend....

 

Can you get any lift out of an 8"

 

And is it even worth it to LT if your only going with 8" shocks or would it be smarter to save the money and mid travel

 

What do you mean only an 8"?..better then the 6" one that a mid travel coil over gets you.

Do you actually know what a lt kit is?? Like..you know it's 3.5" wider or 2" wider. As in the upper and lower control arms are.

Lift is possible with any coil over.

 

LOL im guessing not

 

Sweet! can't wait to see its progress.

 

The progress so far.



The truck fought back

 

Haha! Dang.

What are you up too? Cage?

 

Ha gnarly, she didn't like being torn apart naked like that.

 

So I decided on this big boy for use at home, 350 ft/lbs, 2700 IPM, 8 AMPS and it came with 7 sockets I'll just get a gorilla wrench to carry offroad



Did the work great, took me about 3 hours to get drivers side off, thats with some breaks and dinner

 

Matt's kit was featured of the cover of Off Road Magazine on our 1st Gen Tacoma as well.

http://www.fourwheeler.com/features/1402-2004-toyota-tacoma-prerunner-time-flies/

Matt will definitely take good care of you!

 

Thanks! I will be going with him!

 

Yes I know what LT is. It's coilovers I don't really understand

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/long-travel-suspension/180457-considering-long-travel-read-here-first.html

Visit here, it explains about long travel suspension and why you run a 8" coilover.

 

I may have had a bit off misconception going into long travel. I thought it'd be like driving around on a pillow or something.. Lol

All my other cars have been race oriented on very stiff suspension.

I was just (weekends) having fun in the deserts of so cal. Now im in Portland oregon and haven't found much area to test out my newer long trave front and rear.

The ride is tolerable just fine on the street, i just wanted a bit of reassurance it wasnt overly stiff. I do notice it feels good the faster i go on rough terrain. I'll keep the valving as is until i really get the chance to take i out. The front and rear do have flutter stacks.

I thought about going to a bypass, but i think a dmz kit will be in future, so I'll wait until then.

I know you're in eastern oregon. You know of any good places to go offroad more west towards portland?

Thank you for your input.

 

There a guy on craigslist selling a new deaver sua pack that's 64" he's got it on a older Toyota pickup it looks like what would have to be done on the hangers to run it, I know the 61.5" packs use the 52.5" hanger to hanger number

 

64" springs have to be run outside the frame rails with an inverted shackle. Whole different setup than a typical 62" on a 1st gen. Need a Tundra/t-100 axle as well. That is the setup I run.

 

Gotcha thanks for the response, makes sense now he's running it that way in the pics I didn't know if you had to

 

Desert stuff? Other than forest service roads you are hosed. Look up the Oregon Trail Rally routes, those are pretty fun high speed stuff near you. It's sketch without a spotter running ahead of you with a radio though... Central Oregon has some nice desert stuff. You can run from Prineville through Millican to Christmas valley to the Cali border all offroad if you know the way. Check out the Oregon BackCountry Discovery route (OBDR). It's nothing too hardcore, but still fun at speed. Christmas Valley Dunes are a hoot if you like sand. Lots of places to go, but not near PDX. Besides, fuck PDX, too many Californians there.