Long Travel BS Thread

From what I have heard its pretty easy to find a shop that will pass on visual as long as everything else checks out, like no check engine light one and what not. Well see tho when I have to redo mine in about a year.

 

Don't remember one with 14's, only the one with 12's.

 

I got 14s as close as possible to the leaf pack and they are about an inch underneath the bedline.

 

Your shocks are super angled though as well, arent they? Just curious what the max travel i can get without punching through the bed and without crazy angle on the shocks, whether 12s or 14s....hoping for at least 14"

 

Not really. I punched through the bed though and if my mind serves me right I got 16.5" travel. Kept most of my bedspace. I loose very little with the spare tire out.

 

Where do you want your lower shock tabs to be ? centered on the axle ? Do you care if they have to hang down super low like the OE ones ?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/white-knight-fixedtrd-build.126828/page-4#post-3706731

I would think that if 14's would fit Tim would have used them when he built Will's truck. Just do a canti if you have to not go through the bed.

 

I dont mind if they hang down a bit, as long as they arent lower than the leaf pack. If theu do hang below center, id want them hella gusseted and boxed. Basically what TC did on their project tacoma, but i cant find their travel #s.

 

however he built that truck with fox's tho and a 2.5x14" sway away is only 2 inches longer extended than a fox 12" also looks like its tabbed pretty high up the axle so i bet you "could" fit a 14" SAW without cutting up the bed.

with that being said, regardless it seems like excess work id just cut thru the bed, not going to loose hardly any bedspace some of the low pro bed cages people are doing take up like 1%

 

Yea i know, I'm just keeping my options open and looking around for ideas. 99% sure ill be going with 16" 3.0 triples, but i want to find travel numbers from people that haven't punched through the bed with the DMZ kit. At the very least Id like to be even with my camburg kit up front

 

3.0 16s and I didn't punch through the bed I got rid of it all together.

 

What exactly are your plans for the truck? I know you're up north now, but are you building it with all this with expectations of coming back to SoCal? Lots of work and money, don't see many people start a build like that up there?

 

You are the guy with that truck. I can't even count how many times this picture pops up in a Google image search

 

Hahaha ya I took a few years off the boards and from the truck but I still have it and am starting to put some $$$ back into it.

 

There are plenty of places to romp up north other then just SoCal. Probably more fun even...

6-1 by Marc Mayer, on Flickr
10 by Marc Mayer, on Flickr

 

My plans are to build a truck that can have fun up in the mountains, but also keep up with the boys down in SoCal. What does it matter what I do to my truck? It's MY truck. All these trucks are "lots of work and money", you can't take it with you, and I'm doing it how I want to. Shoo.

 

I read through the whole LT thread too, I'm pretty sure I can build a TT now on my own.

 

Lol