1st Gen on 37's, Long Travel. Completion Date: TBD

Yeah definitely. Doing your own work is the way to do it. I can’t imagine how much money I’ve saved working on my own truck for everything and learning as I go as opposed to getting over charged for taking it in to a shop.

 

You. Wondering if you were comfortable with the ride height given by the spindles and no preload. Wasn't sure if no preload was a sign you were running into the same spring rate problems as before with the 8" coilovers, but since you were considering keeping the 500 tender and only changing the main spring I was fairly certain you were happy with it. Just wanted to check due to the coils not being preloaded at all. I'll probably shoot for 1.5-2" over stock being 4x4 or level with the e30's, we'll see soon hopefully haha. Good work man.

 

might be a little low. ill have to let it settle and see if any adjustments are necessary.

 

Started on a rear bumper

 

Bumper temporarily finished. Need an upper tube to give it some extra support but that won’t happen until I modify the bed cage

 

Nice work Sean - everything looks super simple (a good thing). I am pretty sure you have disk brakes in back. I got a rear disk brake kit and was wondering what mods you have made if any, to your proportioning valve and if you had to add anything to your system. Since you have an 01 and my truck is a 98 I believe we have different size master cylinders and boosters, so I may need / want to swap to the other one if my brakes are spongy at all. Hope you get to drive somewhere fun with your truck asap.

 

No proportioning valve at the moment, I need to install a manual one.
Master is 13/16 bore, single diaphragm booster. Looking to swap this for a t100 booster and fj80 master down the road

Did I answer everything?

 

Are you getting spongy brakes or rears locking up first if you've tested them out?

@Blackdawg did some research when going to the Tundra brakes in front among different masters and brake boosters and found te 01-04 brake booster and master to be the most effective of the two taco componentes and t100. Not sure about the FJ80 master.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...kensteins-helper.390488/page-12#post-14150175

 

not spongy, but the pedal does travel a bit further than i would like it to.
does the rear lock up, oh ya. definitely need the proportioning valve reinstalled, unfortunately i do not have the appropriate hardware for that at the moment.

 

try this for a master cylinder
https://sosperformance.com/products...-2006-toyota-tundra-with-rear-disc-conversion

the taco and tundra have the same booster and master, it appears swapping to the sequoia one keeps the brakes working like factory intended.
rears are sequoia and fronts are tundra/sequoia

 

Yeah if you have bigger brakes in the back now, you need more volume so you need a bigger cylinder.

 

Bed cage 2.0 started

 

More tubes added. Hoping to be done by the end of the long weekend

 

What tubing is the bedside mount made out of?

 

3/4" .060 wall (?)
im guessing here, those are long gone

 

Did you just crush it in a vise - I bought some thin 3/4" tube from HD and some 1/8" plate and was thinking of making something similar.

 

i used my press, but a vice would work.
just be careful, ive broken vices before trying to use them like a press

 

More progress

 

Not finished, but decent progress

 

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