Long Travel BS Thread

16"

 

Correct
But with new hangers and shackles it can perform more. At least to my understanding

 

Are you sure it was cycled?

 

yea I wouldn't go out and "test" it out like that.....damage those pretty new shocks of yours

 

Yep
At current set up
I get 11-12" of travel
Which obviously means I still have unused shock length
But my limiting factor here on travel isn't my shocks it's the SUA set up.

The designed intent was to put shocks in that matched anything I would ever do to that truck short of trailing arms, which I won't be doing any time soon.
The shocks and bed cage can grow with the truck as I upgrade other things in the rear suspension such as new hangers and shackles or cutting my frame.

 

at ride height how much shock shaft is showing? and how much up travel do you have to full bump?

 

After the debacle with my front suspension "issues" the truck has been picked over with a fine tooth comb by
Erik Moore of Moore metalworks
Ryan at kibbe
Tommy at TTmotorsports
And Kellan meadows at Envy

 

I’d like to see a pic of it at full bump showing the shock shaft

 

Mind you it's 1am here lol
I will check tomorrow for you with a measuring tape and pictures

 

The only way to do that (as my tiny brain is aware) is to purge the pressure out of my shocks and bump and I currently do not have a way to recharge them.

If you can teach me a simpler way I will take pictures tomorrow

 

If Erik set it up your good to go. If kibbe did then your probably pulling 39" of travel. It's a win win!

 

I know! Gonna shorten it to 2.5 or 3" stroke hopefully in the spring once I buy a nitrogen set up and am not busy every single weekend. I think I am currently booked every weekend through New Years with plans or travelling

 

2.5 or 2”

 

Ya I plan on it. Just trying to get it all setup and then will work on shocks and bumps etc

 

Erik is the one who built, installed, and cycled the whole back end of the truck
While jarrod did all the slave labor install on the front

That's also why I say stuff like "if my installer/fabricator can build darron parsons truck he's good enough for me"

 

Well my faith in Dirt King just went down a little bit here... got the spacers in the mail. They were gracious enough to overnight them.

However they only sent me two... and they are just plasma cut 1/8 sheet and spray painted. There is still a little slag from a rushed clean up so I will need to sand them better. I’m going to go to the hardware store and see if I can find a better solution to get me on the road. Then I am going to make my own weld on ones at my cousin house with his large when I find some time. We will see what I come up with today...

 

Okay, so thanks to you guys I realized I messed up my bumps when I last had them charged haha

Where the Oring is; is where they were on length

And then all the shocks got purged and whatnot for the mounts and cage to be powdercoated.

It's raining like a mofo so measurements will have to wait. But here is another picture I took just as it started to pour

 

So True Value for the save. They had some grade 8 5/8 “thick” washers. They are 3/16 thick. One side is perfectly flat and sits on the machined surface of the spindle perfect. The other side is slightly crowned on the edge from the manufacturing process. However it sat nice and flat in the machined surface and you still get a good 80% contact. If you welded these in place with the crowned side welded I have confidence they would work great for the long run.

As for my situation. These are a short term fix. They gave me the clearance I need to move forward with the install. However i plan to replace. I found bolts on Fastenal’s website that are high strength and 55mm long with a yellow finish. They are pricy at $45 for bag of 5 haha. But I will be getting those for sure on Monday. Longer term I want to machine some 1/4 spacers (or find some to buy, McMastwr Carr had some stainless ones I saw but I want to weld them in place. So I will be machining some the right way when I can find the time to do it (cousins lathe is a 3hr drive). As for now, time to move forward and try to get this thing on its wheels!

 

McNeil does that conversion clip-its a 6"+ kit, I believe.

 

They should offer a clip for the 3rd gens to convert it to the current 4runner - that would look great.

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