NW WA Meet / BS Thread

@JeffRoyJenkins @James Lee I asked him about sliders before and he said $60/hr and probably less than 2 hours to get them zipped on.

 

hahaha grown ass man driving to his mom's to get his mail that's great! @JDAM tried to use straps at my shop a few weeks ago, didn't work well so he made a custom one.

 

Only week in 5 months I'm working monday-friday!

 

Would you feel differently about it if we did something off of I90? I'm all by myself, so not hard to change the plans

 

Doesn't work unfortunately.

 

Hahah it still like 3+ hrs away from me. Don't think it's gonna happen. Hahah but thanks for trying! Concrete or Darrington is what I was thinkin.

 

I'd stay away from Darrington area. Warm weather = avalanches and mud slides, thats one of the most prone areas in Washington for land slides. We gotta take a trip to the land slide @Greddy and I found last year this summer, Bigger than the Oso one but hardly any one knows about this one

 

Yeah I just want to hit a FS road not looking for too crazy shit. Hahaha but I'm down when the snows gone!

EDIT: I gotta get runs in idk where I'm going in nov might be moving to Okinawa. Or everett or San Diego again. Ect. Hahaha

 

Yeah, worth a try. No way in hell I'm gonna drive from Auburn to Darrington at 10am.

 

Looking like oki in November! !

 

Good luck in Japan. Enjoy the weather there... not much different than here!

 

I didn't try the ratchet strap thing. I bought these spring compressors and found that the claws wouldn't fit in between the thick coils so I grounded them down to fit. They work for making coilover adjustments but I wouldn't try to replace springs with them.

$84 ATD Tools 7550 Master Spring Compressor Set

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004I6RQFO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00

 

Zip ties. Big ones, and lots of them.

 

I've done the ratchet strap method before but that was for an Acura my buddy was lowering, not putting 700lb springs on.

 

That's it, I'm done. No more Tacoma!














As a daily driver...

 

I tried a setup like @JDAM had and like he said, it wouldn't fit between the body of the strut and the coil.

My buddy had one that had little rings instead of hooks that worked really well, but I have never been able to find those.

Last time I did mine I just took them to TorFab where they have a Branick wall mounted compressor. Makes quick, easy work of it. I imagine if you go up there for work ever you could arrange to have them done while you waited.

 

Heh, I'll be driving by torfab in an hour or so, but don't have them with me.

 

@northwesttaco seems to have quite the report with Mule. Maybe he could get them done there for a good price.

 

At $125 an hour since I didn't get the springs through them :thumbdown:, I'd rather do it myself.