Marlin Crawler's New Rock Crawling Long Travel IFS Suspension System (#RCLT)

Yeah at time I ordered, I didnt know. Even now if you look at their website it says they are currently shipping the kits.

 

Lol to Influencers and shit

 

Just got my shipment notification! Wooohooo!

 

Me too!!
About damn time!!
We’ve been forever!

 

Nice! It's only took 203 days for them to ship, but not like I was counting or anything...

That's 6.5 months or 29 weeks... for everyone else not counting.

 

Seems right on track with their original. Will be shipping in 4-6 weeks as soon as we get enough orders

 

Just put my hat in the ring on this.
Been following along for ... well it's been a few years since the first proto...
I've got the shop scheduled for next Tuesday to install it. I'm kinda a big deal influencer so I already got tracking info.

Spoiler: bwahaha

Exercising my old pirate4x4 trolling skills here.

On a serious note, by time it does show up and I've got all the other long lead time parts sorted, I hope there will be some good builds with lessons learned, problems, solutions, hey watch out for X type deals.

 

Here's another update:
I got it aligned and it aligned perfectly. After the alignment I had to clearance more of my motor mount, which really sucked. It's a pain in the ass job in a hard to reach spot. Here's where it was rubbing my shaft :



Here's the motor mount after the re-clearancing. I drove it around for about 30 min after this was done, hit some big dips and bumps, flexed it out and it didn't rub. Make sure when you do this you take more than you think. Mine cleared until I started driving it around.


Also got my limit straps done. 10" straps will work better than the 11" that Marlin provides. They stretchered to 12" immediately when I put weight on them. I didn't want to move the limit strap clevis back any further, so that it's pulling as straight as possible. I communicated that to Mike and they are sending me some 10" straps and are going to use 10" straps in their kits going forward. Other people (with GXs) had the same experience with the 11" straps.


The test drive after it was back together was great. It was also the first time driving it with the Anti-Rock sway bar on the rear, and that made a big difference. I hit some big dips going fast (40ish) and it was butter smooth. I got 1" into the front bump stops (of 2" total) and 2" into the rear bump stops (of 3" total). The rears were only charged to 50psi since there's no weight back there yet. The flex test was encouraging as well. I'll have to dial everything in once I hit the trails. I painted the rear axle and frame over the weekend and will be getting everything put back together ASAP. I'll be gone for the rest of the week, but planning to build sliders next week and start on the rear bumper. Here are some pics of it flexing from different angles. Preliminary estimates are about 12-13" of front travel at the tire, but don't quote me on that yet. That wasn't measured, just a best guess.

 

Just to throw in some updates on my install. We had issues with the engine mount / gusset clearance of the steering shaft. Also a supplied bushing for the steering rack needed to be machined down to fit properly. Marlin said they would get back to us about the bushing issue, but never did. Hopefully things are smooth from here.

 

2 yrs of r&d and you'd think they'd have their shit together.

 

with being in the industry for 20 years, you would think they would have their supply chain figured out

 

Touche that too

 

I emailed MC to find out where in line I am. Currently, I am 15th. I was 25th on August 19. This is painfully slow.

IG: bigbri_taco

 

Maybe they should update their crawl box gearing pitch to help those that don't understand the ratio numbers.

"How slow is our crawl box, you ask? As slow as our rclt production!"

 

When did you order? It took over 6 months to get my kit and we called about a few install issues but they never got back to us so we had to come up with our own solutions.

 

If you want big mike to reply to you just go on the Instagram posts where he claims to be the first to do everything and say he wasn’t. He’s quick to get back at those.

 

His followers will come to his defense.

 

They must be slow also.

 

The slowest

 

Like the world's first triple cased Tacoma slow.