Long Travel BS Thread

Hey gents I was wondering how far should I place the top tube from the front of the grill. It's at 7 3/4" from the front of the grill.

 

Depends how deep the lights are that you might mount on there

 

Let me have a few drinks and get the plasma out!

 

That truck in the video is on all kings. 2.5 coilovers and 3.0 bypasses front and rear. The other truck(shortbed) is going bigger and fox shocks. 3.5 bypasses.

 

Definitely want the TTB greatness. Already have a transfer case, and thanks to Flaunt a lot of the guesswork has been figured out. The main dilemma for me is to decide if I want to do a bronco/f150 frame graft like him, or build mounts off my frame. It's a 6 lug frame, so it's stronger than his 5 lug frame was. It's also got a full engine cage so it would be a lot of work and money to cut it off. Especially cuz it's mostly 4130.

I think I've got the room on the frame to fit a steering box, the radiator looks to have been moved forward from stock. The only other issue is finding a rear sump oil pan. I have heard that one from a T100 is what I need, and that some other years with a 3.0 might work. Still figuring that out. I've got all the dimensions for a bronco/f150 frame that I'm gonna compare to the frame on my truck once I get off work for my weekend on Wednesday morning.

 

Ive been considering linking the rear instead of going the SUA route. Ive had my eye on the Giant dd link. I dont want to have to move my fuel tank and want to keep as much bed space as I can. Is anyone here running that setup that can shed some light on it. Likes/dislikes? What youd change or add to it?
Also on the site it says you dont need bypasses right away, why is that? New to most of this so still learning and trying to get as much info as possible! Thanks in advance!
Link to the site: http://giantmotorsports.com/content/view/89/109/

 

Shawnphoto and Landon are both running that kit

 

Ok thanks.

 

Okay cool thanks!
Anyone running links in WA/OR area?

 

If you're Washington I'm assuming this is more of a play truck that's not running extremely rough trails, so you should be fine without bypasses

 

Yeah I wouldnt be running extremely rough trails unless I end up moving back to CA or when I come down to visit family haha. If Im not running bypasses, would I need stiffer coils? New to this so please excuse any stupid questions.

 

Had the fenders color matched

 

the same coils but you'd need more valving

 

Oh okay thanks! How do you like the giant dd link?

 

Overall it's great, has some issues but it will work better on a Tacoma than my tundra.

 

His front end makes me drool, want that so bad

 

I'll be the one to say it..... TTB beams are insanely over rated. If you want them buy an old ford. Grafting them on a Toyota is retarded. Flame on

 

Awesome appreciate the info! What would you change about it to help those issues?

 

Ditch the air shocks and run a single upper link to set the pinion. I'm running 600psi in mine and it's still not enough but I have a lot of torque, low gearing and a very heavy axle

 

Oh okay I saw the single upper link on DMCtacoma's build. Yeah probably come down to trial and error when I am able to get it on and set up im sure. Are you looking at running 650 or even going up to 700?