Loco's "Brack Burrito Build" BS Thread...with some build...mostly BS.

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Are those just 2 sets of coils put together?

 

Yeah... It's the upper and lower for the dual rate 14" fronts going on the truck.

 

Das bad ass
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I guess I had never really noticed that before. I always they they were on really long coil.

Stoked to see this thing come together.

 

Cheaper and easier to get also.. at least out here in AZ

 

Dual rate coilovers operate a bit differently than the single rates you're used to seeing on IFS trucks. Where I would have used a 700lbs single spring on my taco I am using compound springs rates for part of my stroke and single rates for others by adjusting a jam nut on the threaded body. It interesting stuff with more adjustability to have a soft and graceful part of the travel and also enough spring to push the body back up after a full compression stroke.

If you ever need to kill some time read through some tech info on dual and triple rate coilovers.

 

Will do. Thanks for learning me something today.

 

So many soccer mom SUVs.

 

Don't worry it's a huge black hole. I only know enough to be dangerous at this point and get this truck on some wheels so I can start from tuning wise.

 

I'm just starting to dive into the rear shock mount relocation with extendos.

That's pretty big for my lil PreRunner build.

 

As I learned by fucking with the King 12s and BAMF mounts I literally had 1 extra inch of travel and I had to modify so much shit to run them it was a waste of time.

Ckeene had the best setup. 11" of stroke being fully used with no frame mods minus the shackle flip...

 

Damn, this is good to hear.

He just did a flip with extendos?

 

Check his build. I think he was running the XJ shackles like mine. He was basically the same as mine but I had the shock relocation and gained 1 inch and I had to pull a lot of leaf spring retainers to get that travel!

 

The upside was my travel arch was lower meaning I was running a longer bump stop and had more droop and less up travel which was nice in the rocks.

 

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I've got some research to do then!!

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When mine was all said and done with the XJ shackles I left the spring clips in place and let the leafs stop the droop vs the shocks. Ended up at about 11.5"

Loco giving solid advice, but I did frame stuffs.

 

How Toyota should have done it the first time!

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Stuffs looking good Phil.

 

Thanks Adam... she's getting there. Couple more weeks and she's a roller I hope.

 

Got my rear shocks sorted out yesterday. Ordered up a set of Fox 2.0 12" remote resis with the DSC Knob. Got a smoking deal on them through accutune since they had some they ordered/tuned and then had the guy cancel. Not a huge market for a stem topped 12" shock apparently because they were more than happy to get them off the shelf and under my truck.

Just gotta get the extended bumpstops sorted out and the rear is nearly wrapped up.