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ELITE Long Travel!! Thoughts Please

Discussion in 'Elite Off-Road' started by Timicha, Nov 22, 2010.

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  1. Jul 14, 2012 at 9:48 AM
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    Not running 8's they are just extended length CO's
     
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  2. Jul 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM
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    It's not about the UCAs at all, it's the lack of space with stock LCAs and coil buckets. To fit an 8" coilover into the coil bucket with stock LCAs you would have to compress it so much that there would be very little room left for the shock to work, it would be all down travel that the stock components can't even handle so you would have to strap it.

    The reason people run 8s with LT is because on the new LCAs the lower shock mounts stick out more than stock which gives the whole setup more room to run a bigger shock which is an 8". Does that help? Haha
    Edit: seems like max and jerry explained it a bit better, hope it all makes sense :cool:
     
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  3. Jul 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM
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    UCAs i thought added like an inch of down travel ususally(with right shock) and corrected alignment(on 2nd gens, not needed on 1st gens)
     
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  4. Jul 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM
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    :confused:

    I though extended was 8"

    Gotcha. Well i new it was a wider stance and mount.

    so an extended CO is just 6''?
     
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  5. Jul 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM
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    Yup. IIRC extended vs standard is only 0.25" of a difference, Atleast for icons. I could be wrong but extended is definitely not 8".
     
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  6. Jul 14, 2012 at 10:19 AM
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    Wow really? and that nets all that wheel travel? sheesh..
     
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  7. Dec 29, 2012 at 3:53 PM
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    :boink:
     
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  8. Dec 29, 2012 at 5:18 PM
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    Yes as said thats not an 8" Coilover. Usually from what Ive measured stock replacements are about 4.75-5" Im guessing a Extended travel is about 5.5 or so.
     
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  9. Aug 5, 2013 at 10:27 AM
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    Whatever happened to this idea? Did it get trashed or is it still in the works?
     
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  10. Jan 9, 2015 at 6:20 PM
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  11. Jan 9, 2015 at 6:23 PM
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    Dream on. Tim is MIA and no one has heard from him in months and still owes people bumpers.
     
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  12. Jan 14, 2015 at 9:31 AM
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    doesnt suprise me at all. i had a bumper from tim that bent to hell and back when pulling someone out of a snow drift. needless to say i said to hell with it and bought a relentless when i had my truck. hes not a very good salesmen at all. when there is a problem he trys to find everything that you could have possibly done wrong for something to happen. would not recommend to anyone
     
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  13. Jan 14, 2015 at 9:34 AM
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    Relentless isn't a much different design when it comes to the mounting plate/winch plate that bends. Mine bent too. Was stupid easy to fix that. Couple whacks with a hammer then i welded in 1/4'' plate behind the 3/16s to make it much stronger.

    That said. Not sure what happened to Tim really..
     
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  14. Jan 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM
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    yes your right doesnt take much to fix it i had to do that myself. erics that i had built wasnt like tims. i had it made different just for that reason. but when someone spends 1000+ on a front bumper and something as simple as pulling a stock tacoma out of a snow drift and the damn thing bends from hell and back? someone should stand up for their product with some responsibility. oh thats right hes gone and took everyone for their money. piece of work i see. i found this out years ago. i simpathize for everyone involved in this.
     
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  15. Jan 14, 2015 at 12:15 PM
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    When did you bend yours?

    When I talked to him he was not happy about it. Offered to send me a whole new winch mount plate made out of 1/4". But I didn't want to cut it all out. That was almost two years ago though.
     
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  16. Jan 14, 2015 at 12:22 PM
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    There's still an Elite section ?
     
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  17. Jan 14, 2015 at 12:22 PM
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    Not really. No vendor section. Just the ghost of it to keep the threads
     
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    Oh , with Tapatalk in my phone this thread is in Tacomaworld > Vendors > Elite Offroad
     
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    Odd. It's not there if you just go to the vendor section.
     
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