What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

A picture is indeed worth a thousand opinions. And then, if you had gotten shocks long enough to not over extend on the stock mounts, it would have bottomed out all the time. Or you would have lost a lot of uptravel bumping them to prevent that.

I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I never wheel my truck, so I have zero first-hand experience. Hell, there's not even a mall here to crawl. I bent the shaft on my 5100s hitting the curb too hard at the local KFC drive-thru.


Whatever I'm doing I'm doing something wrong. I guess to get more popular on TW you have to spread misinformation instead of info learned from years of trail and error.

 

I wouldn’t go #700...

 

Its okay ill pm you the address of the mall im currently sitting/waiting at. Thats the main reason I did my suspension anyways

 

Cause why?

 

I mean you can but it’ll be incredibly stiff.

Whats your reasoning for wanting to switch to a #700 coil?

 

Well I was thinking 100# bumper+ eventually a winch+ heavier duty skid was a good reason but if not that'll save me some money which is always good.

 

Highest I would go coil wise is to #650. Im running #600 coils with bumper/full skids etc (no winch) but still ride it at 3in of lift.

The higher coil you go the stiffer it’ll be without a bunch of weight on the front.

The lightest coil that’ll get you the ride height you want is the best. So if you run a #600 coil with preload but NOT enough so your getting coil bind, and get the desired ride height you want, that’ll be the best option usually. (if that makes sense)

 

if you want to do something right, send me that rear bumper

 

I can get mine pretty well on the bumps with 620lb coils and no extra weight. Full bump photo for reference.

Maybe it was just the situation where most of the weight was forward.

 

It does thanks.

Thanks

 

But according to this thread high-clearance bumpers aren't necessary on 1st gens. You sure you want cut you bedsides and add all that unnecessary clearance?

 

they installed a new speed bump at the mall.

i'm taking no chances.

 

Added more tooobes. Hoping to finish the a-pillars up and burn everything together this weekend.

 

Now you can't open that valuable side window!

 

kek

 

Haha right! It actually does open fully, by accident really.

 

Oh well carry on then haha

 

Worked a catering event at a car collectors garage. Here's a 66' cruiser. The owner must have had $300 million+ just in vehicles in this garage. Not to mention an entire WWII museum. Got to see some actual SS gear and even Hitler's actual clothes, silverware and personal items at his suicide

 

Finally got 285s!

 

Who makes IFS skids for these trucks? I found the Relentless Fab and ATO/4x versions. Are there any others?