Fitting 35’s with minimal trimming NOW ADDING LONG TRAVEL AND 934 CV’s

I’ve never had an issue with stock brakes. If you want to be super duper safe add some delrin rack bushings and limit the slide rack with shaft collars

 

I prefer the term "spirited" but I digress and yes, I'm basically polishing a turd at this point so variances are bound to happen.

 

What surprised me was this most recent incident last weekend wasn't even anything particularly crazy, no different from what I was really doing the rest of the day, or even my past wheeling since I got the Tundra rack installed. The stars must have aligned just perfectly enough which is why I think knocking down that tab a bit will be the easiest solution. But yeah, the trails were definitely tight with plenty of full lock situations.

 

if your going to do that why not weld on a flat piece of stainless on the LCA

 

I look at it as one in the same I guess. Accomplishes the same task at least in my eyes. Not like it contacts a massive patch or anything

 

Locked, I’m strapped but I wasn’t conservative with the straps. Slide rack and +4. No steering stops, but I’m making contact with the spindle bracket onto the lower arm.

 

The passenger side lives a little closer but still clears.

Truck is dirty as hell, yes my cvs are seeping grease, I plan to redo the clamps this weekend for worm gear clamps that Harry uses now.

 

I really question how there could possibly be enough deflection to break off the banjo. Makes no sense at all. I expected to see much closer. @EatSleepTacos what kind of clearance do you have?

 

I’m not sure if my alignment has anything to do with it. I’m pushing the arm forward with alignment too. Rear pockets are outboard, fronts are inboard. I think I got it close to 4.5° of caster. I think my stink bug rear is hurting the ability to get a better caster number.

 

My passenger side outer cv boot leaks grease all over the place no matter what I do. I've tried a tonne of different clamps. I found that with wormgear clamps, the bolt head hits the lower shock bolt, only on the passenger side for some reason, so I can't use them there unfortunately.

I left the steering stops on. Yeah theres some gouges, but doesn't bug me... there are bigger gouges from rocks than anything else anyway.

 

I’ll snag a pic for you tomorrow.

 

Have you tried oem clamps and squeezing the ever living fuck out of it with breaker bars in the pliers? That’s what I did, no issues yet.

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Mine were done with oem clamps. I redid one of them with a cv band clamp that you tension up and fold over. Still leaked.

 

I wonder if it’s possible you did what I did on accident one time. The inner clamps are different diameters when comparing the inner joint to the outer joint. I had the two clamps mixed up and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t tighten up one enough to stop it from leaking. Once I realized that and used the correct clamps in their correct spots, no issues.

 

I don’t know @81Trekker did my axles up with a fresh boot kit from Toyota

 

The worm gear clamps work fine, just push the boot down on the axle

 

Oetiker clamps?

 

Iv had the same issue with passenger side worm gear hitting the shock bolt. And no matter how hard I tighten it it still slides up and starts hitting the shock bolt. And both outer small clamps always come ever so slightly loose and cover everything in grease over time. It’s actually completely turned me off from cv’s. I’m very motivated to go to a Dana 44 spindle with a u joint and part time hubs. Also I have steering stops on and that area where it rubs is actually dented in and looks terrible. I don’t ever recall hitting full lock hard but it must have been at full lock and the tire was forced in more.

 

Is the area between the boot and axle clean? Capillary effect! If its not clean, it'll seep. This is a maintenance/monitoring issue. Forgetting to check your shit leads to surprises. I know too well. The hose-clamps on mine like to move around. I have forgotten to check them a few times and after cleaning it up/repacking, I don't forget anymore. Moly grease...you can paint a house with a thimble-full.

 

Hey can anyone here with a double cab short bed do me a huge favor? after cutting everything off my rear i realized i never measured center of my axle to a known point on the frame... Seeing if theres anyone that can get a decent estimate of measurment from the rectangular hole in the frame forward of the front leaf mount to the centerline of the rear axle at ride height?


Thats the spot i'm trying to reference from. I'm sure i'll figure it out one way or the other but would be nice to have a baseline to start from...