Flatbed,35’s and Mainly Parked For Repairs

Lol you would have been further in the line. There are a bunch of people just waiting me to take the knife to the truck lol.

 

yep no matter which offroad club or friends you have we all share the waiting in line for used upgraded parts....I dont.rally see you taking.the knife to that truck..... it will be buggyified b4 that happens....

 

Lol we will see. I’m trying to have my cake and eat it to with the build. But it hasn’t worked out too well. Hoping to fix that this year.

see how it goes.

 

And it’s done. Glad I got the shocks out as I believe they could have failed catastrophically.

they are suppose to be the same length

believe that the internal stops to prevent too much droop blew out. This pic kinda shows where I believe a weld or tab ripped out.



And the rest of the suspension


Also some pics of the beefed up lowers

lower skid

and beefed up at the mount


Got the alignment at roughly 0 camber and maxed out caster with the poly cam deletes as well


See how it drives and I’ll try to dial in the toe.

not bad for a couple hours over two days.

 

I cant believe you were driving around on thoes coilovers. 10 lashes with a wet noodle.
Are you going to return to the seen of the crime? I'm not injust got lucky....
It looks great.

 

Yeah it was over due.

by seen of the crime do you mean....

 

Yes that's it.
It's the limit to my truck so I will not try again..
Great pic BTW.

 

Line choice should be better but this year I need to take it easy and slowly shake down the truck. Can’t have another expensive year.

 

@tacoma16 did Elka send you a shipping tracking number?

Or the awesomeness just showed up at your door?

I am on week 10 right now, any day.......

 

They sent tracking. Check your email. You will get two tracking numbers (one shock per box).

Going to be flying with those resis!

 

Perfect thanks for the info, no tracking numbers yet...

I went all out with this upgrade

 

They were pretty dead on at 10 weeks. The only thing I can think of is the long weekend throwing it. They were in lockdown during the time when o got mine.

 

With the new shocks and whole front end pretty much rebuilt, I decided to add limit strap to ensure I don’t have any issues any time soon. If I was running a sway bar I wouldn’t bother, but I’m not so I feel this is needed

this is what I used all from tmr customs

added some frame plates to have a bit more surface area for welding


Since I got 12” straps I went to the shock tower. Don’t look to close to my welds, it’s a tight spot with a welding helmet and what not. Should hold fine.




All installed. These will stretch to 13” and I have plenty of room to adjust them


This is at droop. I’m only trying to limit down travel a bit, and will have to readjust in a bit once these stretch

 

Are the straps there to limit travel or is it a just in case something breaks again safety measure.
After what happened its making me think.....

 

It’s limiting travel a 1/4” or so. Essentially ensuring my shocks don’t take the brunt of droop and saving ball joints. Since I’m not running a sway bar it should help a bit.

 

I think I'd go 3/4". Just for the stretch that might happen with the limit strap. Excellent idea. Better that breaking another axle tube.
Great another thing to put on the list.

 

That’s the thing, I believe my strap will stretch 1” total. But I have read conflicting information if the strap stretches while in use or over time (12” strap becoming a 13” strap). Regardless I have about 1” of adjustment.

 

Let's see what happens to them.
Very nice

 

Thanks!

 

Finally got to test out the suspension and was very happy with the ride. I am rubbing now with the caster not being what it was. Can’t max it out like I had.

also really liking the empty bed for day runs.

have to do some hammer work on the fenders and also double check my limit straps.