Long Travel BS Thread

Something to read for shit n giggles lol
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/product-reviews/259676-tag-tactical-armor-group.html

 

what??? there is more to a leaf spring then just holding up the truck? dont tell people around here that

 

are 1st gen and second gen cam tabs the same? mine is siezed and looks like this

 

damn sucks they are seized

 

yours must be seized chris! and only one of them is...i checked all the others....only the front passenger side.

 

air hammer? haha guess we will find out shortly

 

ill just buy a new one to be ready.

 

it took me 2 days to get mine off, all 4 were seized.
BFH didnt work
RBFG (really big fucking hammer) didnt work
really big fucking air hammer didnt work
sawzall didnt work to cut them out (went through like 4 blades trying to cut one)
i had to end up using a plasma cutter to get them out, it was a good time.

 

can any of yal with a LT 4x4 tacoma (preferably 05+) point me in the direction of a break down of installing the new LT Axles into factory CV's? thanks

 

How did a sawzall not cut through that?!? I have access to anglw grinder and sawzall...no plasma

 

Are you at a shop now or something?

 

If you want to call it that. I've been working in customs/racing for a few years.

First I built streetbikes and chopper/bobbers (where "Bobber Bill" comes from), some sales and even my own short run production parts.

I've moved onto other things, but metal fab is still an ongoing gig. Motorcycles are no longer my focus. Now I pit, prep and fabricate for friends who race HDRA and BITD. I am also in transportation design, I will be designing the cars you will be driving in 10 years.

I just never chose to advertise myself as a "shop." I had a few friends, or clients if you want to call them that, from all around the world who liked my work and fed me enough low key business to avoid any sort of inflated internet title/ego.

 

There was a video posted on youtube i believe on how to do it that someone posted on here a few months ago

Here it is http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5bTJRzrv4iA&desktop_uri=/watch?v=5bTJRzrv4iA

 

Very cool dude!

 

taking the factory CV axles out of the outer CVs is the hardest part of the process. Just watch the video Cory posted.

When you have tried for more than an hour to snap the stock axle out of the stock outer CV, the splines may be seized with the inner race of the outer CV. At that point you need to decide whether you are going to have to keep trying to or cut the stock axles right at the outer CV. Once you cut the stock axle, you can flip the race around in the outer CV and take the inner race out (still with part of the axle seized in it). Then you take the seized part to a shop and have them press it out for you. Clean off the factory race and CV real good and you are ready to insert the new LT axles.

 

Its a bitch and pain in the ass no matter how you do it and you'll be cursing like a drinking sailor. If you cant get it done yourself then I would recommended taking the shafts to a driveline shop and let them deal with .

 

New in the box race radio for sale..
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?376997-Yaesu-FT-2900R-E

 

is anyone else out there running that SOLO kit?

 

I haven't seen anyone with it except the original truck but that kit I pure sex