El Taco Diablo... Mall Crawlin, now with LT for tall curbs

I have a 3 wheeler

 

Lol. How's your coming along?

 

I watch your YouTube videos while I’m running on the treadmill. It makes time go by. One I saw this morning is when you’re buddy was messing around and tried to go over that big log then rolled over.

 

Well thanks for watching!

Ya, Charlie will be talking about that one at the camp fire for years.

 

Thanks for the link!

I totally appreciate the warnings from others on the vibrations with Poly (Duely noted)

But, I ended up going this direction cause 86 bucks and free shipping. lol

 

Awesome! I serviced the bushings on mine and Adam who owns the place was super cool and helpful. The mount did what is was supposed to!

 

I think you’ll be good. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be. I’ve had no issues with my similar tcase mount. Although I don’t go faster then 65 mph due to other issues…

My rear drive line is around 20” and double offset due to my lift and 14 bolt. Dumb angles.

 

I've got the 4xinnovations IFS and Trans skid... Those things are fucking beef! They have saved my bacon on numerous occasions (over what would have happened with thinner skids)

It's nice to have them under there. I haven't even had to worry on some massive hits under there.

 

Oh you mean the Fucken driveway ornament? It’s not coming along at all….

 

Let me just say...

I dislike pressing bearings a lot.

 

Gave up on the whole manual hub Tundra axle nonsense.

The outers are a BITCH... I couldn't get the one off the test axle.

 

Hit another snag on the LT side of things... But still managed to get some things accomplished.

New solenoid
New Alternator
And the new Radiator is about to go in

 

How I wish I was doing a Taco radiator install instead of a Land Cruiser

 

@theesotericone @betterbuckleup

Do one of you guys recall what the measurements of the plate you have the t-case mount on?

With it raining, I figure I can start fabricating that mount and the mounting plates I'm going use for the tcase skid I'm going to make.

 

Sorry man. That cardboard got tossed as soon as the job was done. lol

 

I don't, but can get you a measurement when I'm working on the truck later this week. It a pretty small piece.

 

Well, made a little more progress today. This Long Travel thing is kicking my ass. It's just one thing after another with this shit.

 

Details. Give us the deets

 

It's just one thing after another.

Started with the bypass hoop not fitting and having to modify it
Fox Performance Series shocks not fitting the way I really wanted them to. (I'm really not very happy with Poly Performance right now.)
One of the shocks had been re-packaged. Looks like it was used for mock up.
Had to buy elbows to get the resi hoses pointed in the (halfway) right direction.
Then the lower spring perch didn't work... too close to the CV.
Poly said the Race series perches would work, they don't... Had to call Fox and buy unlisted parts direct from them, to get the coil moved up.

Was going to try and do manual hub outers on Tundra CVs... that's a bitch. Burned an entire weekend trying to get the outers to pop off of some of the manual CVs I have... even built a press fixture to do it... ya, that didn't work.

I've bought 2 sets of salvage Tundra axles only to find out 3 of the 4 are pretty much garbage.

So, I decided to just switch to ADD hubs. Pressed the manual hubs out, bearings out... pressed new bearings in, pressed the hubs in the bearings... looked down... FUCK... I didn't put the bearing retainer clip or outer dust shield on before I pressed the hub into the bearing... So, I went and bought MORE new bearings and did it all over again.

Then I realized I don't have the bearing spacer you need for ADD hubs, because I never run ADD hubs... fortunately @foxrcing07 had them.

Now I'm to the point where the bumps are in and I'm getting the coil set in there and I can't find a way for the resi to set nice... again, because I'm sitting here trying to make these Performance Series coil overs work. (they will, they are the right size... but at this point I'm kind of fucking pissed at myself for listening to Poly. Dude was way too eager to sell me these things, It's like they were trying to get rid of them... and they have absolutely no fucking clue what they are talking about shocks, when I've been trying to figure these out).

Then there has been the rain, I've been out here, mostly by myself. It's just a bitch doing some of this stuff without an extra set of hands. Mounting the coils on the coil overs, for example, is just a pain in the ass without an extra set of hands. Mounting the coilovers in the tower... is a FUCKING BITCH when you're trying to get a bolt AND nut on the back two holes, because the top hats aren't threaded.

Overall... It's just a fucking pain in the ass. It's cool and all. But I'm still not sure it's even worth it.

I haven't driven my f'ing truck in 3 weeks now.

 

Does this fitting look like it's the type I can adjust?



I need the elbow to be at 180° from where it is. Meaning I need the hose to be running along side the resi when mounted instead of the way it is now. That would give me room to mount it.

I'm not super familiar with these types of fittings.