Long Travel BS Thread

"Private"

 

His build is private on here wtf or private meaning he keeps pics looked up under his bed with his nudie mags.... Hmmmm

 

Who's is this?? If my 4Runner wasn't solid axle id do this in a heartbeat

 

Dude at tuff trucks. The runner didn't race but once. Driveshaft snapped the other 2 times.

 

Geez, it only took one prerunner build to empty my wallet and you want to build another one!? lol

 

What do you guys near the beach do to care for your shocks? There was a race in Sierra Blanca, TX this weekend and I went to chase for my pops. We got rained on and the mud was very salty clay. I didn't realize until I rinsed the truck down yesterday and now my shocks have these faint black spots on the coating. Any way to fix this without having to send them out to get recoated? I know it is my mistake but I am used to the local dirt and sand that doesn't do much to finishes.

 

I just bought 2 cans of fluid film and in 2 weeks im doing a full breakdown and retorque on everything and dousing the whole underside of the truck

 

Corrosion X or ACF50, are great corrosion preventative spray films.... I know it doesn't help after the fact tho

 

Yeah once corrosion has started theres no quick fix, just inhibitors.

 

Noticed a couple black spots on mine from my first winter. Would've been nice to know from King or sellers of the shocks before hand. Going to buy corrosion x, like $20 or so off Amazon. Thx for the heads up and tip guys. Wondering if some super light grit wet sand paper will take it off. I'll give it a try. I'm thinking it will.

 

Do you know how long it took to get the shocks? I'm STILL waiting for my custom order (2 months+)

 

holy bypass!

 

anyone got the hook up on bump stops?

 

What do you need? TW pricing all day everyday

 

lookin at front bumps.. was lookin at fox since they are a tad cheaper, 2.0.. 3" stroke (which i believe is a shortened 4") since i will want to bump off the top eventually once the engine cage is built

 

Yeah, it sucks that the coating doesn't fully protect them. I was told on my first truck to coat the Bilsteins with WD-40 after every wash. A few washes went by without WD-40 and saw no difference. We hardly ever have snow here, so there's no road salt and all the local off roading spots cover all terrains of Baja, but again with no salt. So I stopped doing any preventive protection on the Billies and never did any with the Tacoma's SAWs. Took 5 years to bite me in the butt though.

 

You're always gonna get corrosion, faster in areas with salt content (near the beach or salted roads), as I said before, once corrosion starts, theres no quick fix to get rid of it, you have to sand it/scrub it off and then coat it with something that inhibits corrosion. Once you've got corrosion you can spray stuff on it to stop it from getting worse, but it'll always be there. I deal with this crap at work all the time, old ass oil refinery, EVERYTHING is rusted. When we get new valves/pipes in I always hound the higher ups to get them coated and actually had to get permission to do minor maintenance on some stuff. (When I first got there I was told I wasn't allowed to do any maintenance whatsoever because I'd be 'stealing' a union brothers job, and then when a minor valve leak turned in to shooting steam over the course of 6 months because nobody came to look at it, I got permission from my boss 2 bosses up to fix stuff like that since I have experience in it from the navy) Point being, oxygen is corrosive, even if you clean the things up every day, its gonna find a way.

Example: my SA 1911, I keep it in a locked case in my room with some desiccant in the case and it's always put away oiled up...left it out once for 2 days after going to the range so I could clean it...found a liiiitttle spot of corrosion forming on the upper part...son of a B

 

We use acf50 and corrosion x religiously on the helicopter especially before we go fly retardent which is extremely corrosive to aluminum, if it's good enough for a 25 million dollar helicopter is good enough for a lil truck shock lol

 

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