Long Travel BS Thread

Yep, the strongest area on any vehicle is/should be around the driver/& or pass.

You see crawlers caged exo'd (which makes sense)

 

Speaking of cages, just painted and carpeted mine today. Still a lot more to do though:

 

Im currently in the market for a new truck

 

Very nice brother !!...

how you been dude ??

 

Not bad, wrenched slipped taking out the seats yesterday:

 

well that was just the video i wanted to see haha damm cage is lookin good all painted up, but i thought u were planning on getting the whole interior/cage covered in purple shag carpet?

 

ouch

 

lol the purple shag rag is going in next weekend along with a disco ball and a smoke machine

 

MCM did some work to my truck this week. Very clean shop.

 

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/pts/3378689773.html

 

A member here tried to buy those and the guy never responded

 

lol it looks worse in the video than how it really was haha

 

did you just carpet it or did you put any sound deadener in before hand? how much do you think it helped with the interior noise?

 

we put in sound deadener ahead of time:


my exhaust is too obnoxiously loud to really determine how well the deadener works haha

 

Always wanted to see a T-100 on a pick up frame!!!

Always listening to offers. 5-lug full long travel DMZ built! Just need to cage the cab and it will be good.

 

me to!!! you could build a front/rear end +5 over and it would just fit and look perfect

 

An 07 4runner, but I should have looked around the rear more, pretty tight for up travel back there. 35's didn't help. Gas tank hangs low... still flip flopping on leafs versus some kinda link set up, blah

 

I'm in the same boat. Not enough room to do much. I thought about leafs but the way the frame is, the shackle end would hang way too low. I'm going to fabricate real shock mounts and with some custom shocks and longer spring it looks like the most ill get is about 14" of wheel travel and it will probably have to be 3-linked to get the most out of that. Other than that you would have to go through the floor with your shocks.

I had been toying with the idea of a cantilever rear but I'm not sure I want to get that much into it

 

Sounds like a fun project. I recently saw an FJ done really well but they used links and of course had to put the coil overs thru the storage area. It looked good after they sealed everything up and carpeted everything again. They also did a fuel cell that was at the rear most portion of the cab. I know the 4-Runners and FJs arent identical rear suspension wise but they both seem to bring a lot of the same headaches.

http://www.krawltex.com/newtex/albums/album419/ed_s_fj_008.sized.jpg

http://www.krawltex.com/newtex/albums/album421/Ed_s_FJ_004.sized.jpg

http://www.krawltex.com/newtex/albums/album421/Ed_s_FJ_004.sized.jpg

http://www.krawltex.com/newtex/albums/album421/Ed_s_FJ_004.sized.jpg

http://www.krawltex.com/newtex/albums/album421/Ed_s_FJ_004.sized.jpg

http://www.krawltex.com/gallery/ind...Chaos-and-4-link/Krawltex-Built-4-Link?page=2

I know you have probably seen SDHQs full kill FJ build but here it is again.

 

I bet dude. IDK how you drive that thing.