ETxTacoma's Dynatrac ProRock 60 Rear Build and BS Thread

I really want some of those for my truck. My stock hangers are all sorts of fucked and bent to shit.

 

May have time to get some before Jambo!

Not looking forward to removing the stock hangers though... not looking forward to it one bit.

But plan of attack will just have to happen and will have to get it done!

 

That's why you should send then to me, I've already done the prep work so it will be quick

 

Ehhhh I am just going to get it done. I know it is going to suck, but I will just have to bite the bullet and not mess around and get it done.

Then the rear end will be pretty much done and taken care of for a while and I should not have to worry about it.



But I blame you and you selling me those Icons.

 

Steven, do you still have your swr meter? I may get you to tune my antenna at jambo if you still do. Should get it hooked up by then.

 

I have been unable to find the one I bought or I would let you borrow it at Jambo, I currently have @Naveronski and will be returning it at Jambo.

I either let someone borrow it and they did not return it, I took it on a trip and left it somewhere, or it is hiding in a box somewhere and I just cannot find it at all in my house.

If I find it before Jambo, I will bring it though.

 

Ok right on im sure @Naveronski wouldnt mind helping me out if he has to.

 

I've got one too... but I'm not sure if it works properly. I had Steven help me using his meter last year at Jambo and I went to check it a few weeks ago and the meter I got for the 4R is reading way out.



So I'll probably try another one of y'all's meters at some point to check it. I have beer and high fives as currency...

 

I’ll help y’all if I can. If I’m busy, y’all are still welcome to use my SWR.

Craft beer is always appreciated.

 

I will have his SWR, unless I find him and give it back to him. I still have not even used it yet as I have not had time.

I need to find some instructions on it as it is a little more complicated than the one I have...

 

Best kind of payment.

I'm sure i'll have plenty.

 

Got the @ARCHIVE Garage Hammer Hangers installed yesterday, last major project finished before the Lone Star Toyota Jamboree. Only thing left is just minor stuff. Also did an oil change, threw on a couple stickers, and installed one more rock light on the rear of the truck.

With the help of @Zac of all trades we did the install in about 6 hours or so, as this was our first time to ever undertake something like this, it was a learning curve on what to do and how to do it correctly.

First off, jack the rear of the truck up and place jack stands as high as safely possible on the frame so the rear of the truck is off the ground. Put jack stands under the rear of the axle so the rear tires are barely off the ground I would suggest. Remove the rear shackles from the shackle hangers, I would also suggest remove the shackles completely from the leaf springs. Honestly, at this point, you could remove the jacks from under the axle, or leave them, up to you. But just get the leafs as much out of your way as possible.

Honestly, the safest way is to grind the rivet heads down flush with the stock hangers, I would also suggest going ahead and cutting off the stock hanger so you can get to the bottom rivet heads as well. Once they are all smooth, take a center punch and put a punch in the center each rivet and then drill a small pilot hole through each and then go through with the drill and start drilling to say 1/4" or so.

Side note, once you have the pilot hole drilled in all of them and they are all flush, you can pretty much go ahead and take a pry bar or a ball joint tool and try to pop the bottom of the hanger out of the rivets and then pop the top out as well. Then taking the grinder again and grinding the rivets flush with the frame once more. You can then take a punch and 3lb sledge and push the top rivets out pretty easily, but the bottom ones should be drilled out to 1/2 to be safe as it will bend since the washer is there. Then go through and drill all the holes to 1/2" and make sure all the holes fit well with the supplied bolts. Then grind the frame rust and the give it a good coat of paint and let it dry a little bit before installing.

Take note as we did not do the above on some of it and it was a pain in the A.

We also found the easiest way to install them on the truck was to remove the jack stands from under the axle and let the suspension fully go down, install the hangers onto the frame and then using a hilift jack or floor jack, raise the rear of the truck using a attachment point at the hitch or under the hitch to bring the rear of the truck up so the hangers go up enough so that the shackles drop down to be able to get the bolt through the leaf bushing. We ended up having to do it one side at a time, so lift it up, get the driver side bolt through, lower the truck a little and then go to the passenger side so we can get the leaf bushing into the shackle and then lift the truck again so the shackle will drop enough to be able to get the bolt through as if you don't do that, the bolt will hit on the Hammer Hanger.

I would do it again, but I would at least know what I would be doing next time around to make it go a lot smoother.

So far, the ride to me is a lot smoother over bumps in the rear and not as harsh, there is a little more lift in the rear from what I can tell, we also had a hilift jack maxed out and the shocks were at 10" and the tires were not off the ground and the shackles were not even drooping down yet, so there will still be some more droop to be gained that I will find out how much on Wednesday when I put the truck on a 2 post lift again.

I also know that my rear brake lines are not long enough, so I already have some +6 brake lines waiting to go on instead of the +3 brake lines and those will go on Wednesday.

But enough text... here are the pictures that were taken yesterday.

 

Looks good!!!​

 

Thanks man, it better look damn good for the amount of work those things took to get installed.

 

Lol, those energy suspension bushings?

 

Negative, OME ones in the leafs and stock bushings in the shackles still. Will see how they hold up.

May end up swapping the shackles down the road with Archive shackles depending on the flex and droop of these.

 

I will be selling an SSO front bumper and 2005+ Tacoma front diff at Lone Star jambo in gilmer, TX for anyone who is interested. I will be camped at Xterra camp. Look for the lifted coyote brown tacoma and expedition trailer to come take a look.

 

Those hangers look really good.

Why did you do them instead of a shackle flip?

 

Talked to Eric with Archive Garage and he asked me what I would be doing with my truck both offroad, on road, and what I had on the truck right now and he recommended the Hammer Hangers over the Shackle flip. I decided to go that route based on his recommendation, down the road, I may end up going with his shackles instead of the OEM ones that I have now to get a little more out of the leafs, but will have to see how these do.

That, and I do plan on adding a cross bar brace down the road to help with bed and frame flex and help tie everything together and all that would entail would be having someone weld something up for me and I now know of someone that could weld something like that up for me pretty easily for a good price.

 

I put the truck on a 2 post lift yesterday at a friends shop to check the full droop of the rear end, check to make sure I have enough slack in the lines, and to check the torque on any bolt I could get to.

But here are the measurements before and after the Hammer Hangers.

I measured on flat ground from the lip of the fender well to the ground both passenger and driver side.
Before HH - 42.5"
After HH - 43.25"

Difference = +.75" in the rear approx.

Travel measurements
Before HH - Icon Shock Max Travel - 10"
After HH - Icon Shock Max Travel - 11.5"

Difference = +1.5" Travel





I have enough slack in the Diff Breather Line, ABS Wiring, Air Lock Liner, and with adding some spacers on the bottom bracket for the brake line, there is enough slack in the brake lines that there would not be an issue. I had a set of +6 brake lines to go on... but looking at it, they are going to be too long honestly at no droop, so I am going to try and sell those and get a set of +4 as they should be pretty much perfect.