Long Travel BS Thread

who else looked like this when the vid was over....?

 

GUILTY. This might be love though...

 

It's amazing how mant times I've been out there of the past 3 years and I've never been here. Where is this?

 

Take the 8 freeway east down the grade and its right there. U pass it on the way to superstition

 

really? what do you have? what do you suggest?

 

I've probably passed it 30 times not knowing.

Take me here next time Tyler...

 

He knows where plaster city is, he's wondering where gypsum rd is
Matt, its in the north west corner of plaster city, towards all the mtns
It's an evil place that eats leaf spring trucks for breakfast

This is in a fast linked truck, just imagine it on leafs


http://youtu.be/KUb2Pp8yUio

 

Get a AEM dryflow cone one, you can get a universal one on ebay for like $40-50
Those autozone ones will let in ALOT of dust out in the desert

 

Anyone add a stocking over the air filter cone? I notice fine dust on my maf sensor....

 

I have a small one over the inlet in the wheel well. I don't have a conical filter though.

 

I have a prefilter on mine
What brand filter do you have?

 

K&N has them in many sizes

 

i have a pre-filter over mine too

 

How much do these pre-filters help in the dez? are they worth it when it comes to dust and what not

 

Word. Has anyone been able to tell a difference? I'm about to drop some monies on a new filter and was thinking about buying a sock for it at the same time.

 

keeps sand out, larger debris from clogging the filter W pleats, and you can clean it or change it prior to doing the main filter. mud clumps break off, fine dust is still caught at the main filter.

 

It works better for micro particles and are often made of a water repellent material to disperus water from slight splashes etc. for the $10-30 that they are, they're definitely worth it if your running no fender wells in the desert

 

Good to know! Thanks much, Duck!

 

So your coil is flexing sideways and rubbing on the shock body? Coil bind is something different.

18" spring are tall so they flex side to side more. It's normal, springs aren't perfect and they do flex like that. The shorter the spring, the less it will flex, that's the idea behind running a 16" spring.

As long as the 16" spring has enough spring travel, at least 8 inches in this case, you can run it on your 8" coilover. Don't forget to take preload into account, when you preload a spring, you are subtracting that amount from its coil travel.

16" springs on 8" coilovers don't give you much room for preload for ride height because they typically don't have much more than 8" of coil travel in the higher spring rates generally used on bolt on toyota LT kits.

18" springs flex sideways more and will rub more on the shock body, but have more spring travel so you have more wiggle room with preload.

Preload shouldn't really be used for ride height adjustment, but when you aren't a mechanical engineer with access to scales to weigh your truck at each wheel, or a budget to swap springs till you find the one that's perfect for your truck, you do what you can. It still doesn't really change ride height much though.

SAW shocks are shorter than Fox/King so they need 16 springs to be able to get the coils mounted on the shocks (unless you use coil compressors to help mount the springs) I imagine the Camburg LT Fox coilovers with the external threaded top cap take a 16" coil for the same reason, but I haven't seen a pair myself so I'm not sure.

In summary, no matter what you do, you're fcked
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