Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Hit me up if you have any questions. I’m LT front, doing SUA at the end of the summer.

 

Those look nice.

 

Have you considered a link kit instead?

 

Yes, a ton of them. The fab work to do a good link kit is a significant amount — if you can do the labor yourself, you obviously offload that cost. Doing a 3-link + pan hard is fine, but you are going to get axle movement laterally through the range of motion, which is not optimal. Doing a 4 link is obviously more geometrically appealing, but now you get to move your fuel tank and do a fuel cell, which is a pain.

Also, if you are building a link kit, you probably want to start to have a serious conversation about robust frame reinforcement and an actual cage. The travel numbers from a link kit get you into the danger zone of fun that a truck with no cage is gonna hurt. SUA will get you less travel numbers for sure, but not *that* much less.

This is assuming you’re building a link kit for go-fast stuff. If you’re looking for crawling, there’s maybe more of an argument for it, but the fab work is still going to be a ton in comparison to a [nearly] bolt-on SUA option.

 

Here's another option for stock length LCA that moves the LBJ 1" as well and is about $250 cheaper. https://btffabrication.com/collections/toyota-1/products/15-21-tacoma-high-caster-lca

I'm running these along with a few other guys on here. IMO the JD Fab pivot is probably better all around and lets you keep your OEM LCAs which are pretty freaking stout. I just learned about the JD Fab kit too late.

 

At a certain point, you could just pick up something purpose built
https://www.moneypitclassifieds.com/Classified/4800-ultra4-ready-to-race-listing-2213.aspx

 

I think the $250 difference is the uniball conversion

 

Yeah just a few extra dollars over an LT kit

 

About the same dollars as a taco + mods though

 

I’m still hoping for @LarryDangerfield to get his portals before he trades off his truck on a new one

https://motorsports.74weld.com/product/4-gear-tacoma-4runner-portal/

 

+another bigger truck and trailer to pull it everywhere

 

Has anyone been to hocking hills? Is it worth a stop if I’m going to be within an hour or two of it anyway?

 

The JD fab kit looks promising

Plenty of UCAs that'll move the ball joint for better caster

*Technically* with the sway bar removed, the stock suspension is mid travel....

 

Yeah I’m already running a Camburg uca which does greatly increase my caster but paired with an LCA that moves it as well it could be a really nice recipe.

 

True story. My cam tabs are all broken or mangled anyways.... I should look into an lca kit of sorts

 

Or just go sas and then you don’t have to worry about it! Cant break it if it’s not there

 

This..... Is......


Not wrong

 

This was at the IGA today. Florida plates. Nice look

 

I'm more amazed there's still IGA's out there.