Solid Axle Swap BS Thread

I was more than generous and I was still over. But my issue was due to the constant adjustment of “oh, I forgot that” to “crap, I had to do this because I did that” or “I want that more” mentality.

At the end of the day, the builder is the only person who will understand the sweat, stress, and pain with building one. Especially with a turn key built from the home garage.

 

Wish I could be a tiny bit lower but I think its a reasonable compromise. If i can make the steering fit, the limit of up travel will be the u-bolt plate/u-bolts meeting the frame. At that point the spring is 2.5 -3" negative so I probably don't need to hunt for any more lol.

 

Who’s got some engine cage photos? Need to get after mine since the rad support is cracked. This is probably a good place to start getting some motivation.

 

Check both my builds under my name. My white truck I did one. The red 4 door I did one as well tied to a cab cage. The red extra cab is the same idea as the 4door.

 

Will do! I’ve been following your work on Instagram, getting lots of good ideas!

 

How elaborate do you want to get? Here is what I did on my old silver double cab. Everything was mounted on tube even the headlights, grill, radiators

 

Just gotta say......... That's some nice work!

 

He's back!

 

Eh kinda, in a 3rd gen now but itching for a project truck. Not sure what yet

 

Glad you replied to this, your old truck is the goal eventually haha. That’s exactly what I want to do, but I’m not ready for full interior cage yet.. so just planning how to build the engine cage and leave it easy to tie into once the interior cage comes.

 

Anyone with air bumps running Perry Parts Hydro Silencer noticed a noise impact reduction and did the compression length changed at all compared to the derin pads?

 

For those that don't follow my build thread hear is a short video of my solid axle swap. It highlights a "budget build" SAS. Of course not even close to the calibre of truck builds on hear, but we work with what we have and its the Labour of love we all have for our trucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxJdqTZs4Ck&t=24s

 

Now that's a true Frankenstein Tacoma, full send. A first for me to see someone utilized chain as a limit strap.

 

I’ve only read posts about them, but seems as if they just fail quickly. I’ve been using a hockey puck and it’s way quieter than air bump on metal pad! It’s lasted a year already with no problems.

 

We've had our hydro silencers on Ultra 4 race trucks and dozens of customer's trucks with no field failures. We've also pushed a hydro bump with a silencer to failure, and the silencer was just fine. Can you please let me know what posts you're referring to where they fail quickly? As that doesn't align with our experience of our product.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwF5ZQz3S8/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

My main concern is the overall length and compression ratio compared to the Delrin pad. The air bump I have is in a fixed position and I would hate to buy your pad to find out it compress more and the coilover end up being the bump stop while there is still gap for the air bump.

 

Thanks for correcting me, I just meant “silencers” in general, not yours in specific, my apologies! I was very curious when I came upon yours on Instagram.

 

That's a great question - yes, the silencers are less stiff than the hard delrin strikers on most hydros/airbumps.

I design ours to compress to an equal height as the hard striker under 1500lbs of force, as that is the peak force they'll see in the rear (1:1 motion ratio) of 6000lb truck in a 2G impact. A 2G impact is seen in light jumping - leaving the ground by 1-2ft.

(Assumptions: no damping from shock (shock damping would add margin to my math, by reducing suspension speed prior to bump contact), and springs support full vehicle weight (1G) at static ride height. Essentially the bump would have to support 1G of acceleration in addition to the springs of the vehicle supporting 1G.)

If you're racing, you'll hit them harder. The way racers set up hydros is actually to set travel without any striker, (as even the delrin striker can break/split.) then the striker adds just a bit of extra buffer on top.

Let me know if that makes sense!

 

That makes sense. My truck is definitely not for jumping, just crawling. But I don’t see why it can’t jump, lol.