Long Travel BS Thread

might just have to swap motors and give me that turbo

 

where did you get those brake lights and turn signals?

 

They are kc lights cyclone lights.

 

Thanks for the info. Did you have to modify/grind the cup for the extra travel of our suspension or just put the boot on and go?

 

Anybody's bedside fiberglass make their actual bed narrower?

 

??

 

By how much? A 1/4" due to the thickness of the fiberglass lip?

 

So I missed the leaf spring convo BUT does anyone have experience towing a 6x10 enclosed trailer (or similar) with LT?

Currently with a dirtbike, coolers, gas and camping gear the thing rides about 2" off the bumps (old F67's) and with a Cali stance that would be the sickest back in 2000. I'm thinking maybe towing a small enclosed would help take some load off the suspension and make dez trips with the bike more convenient to load and better then tent camping. I don't think pulling would be terrible considering I can do 75 up the grade loaded, and braking should be more then enough with trailer brakes too.

Opinions/alternatives?

 

6x12 with hardly any sag. Didn't even come close to the bumps.

 

Thats just a little more level then my truck sits with a WR in the back. How does it handle towing?

 

At first I had to much weight in the back and it swayed bad over 45mph. Moved some stuf and it towed awesome. It was super heavy though. It was jam packed .

 

Nice, I might have to rent one and try it out first, but it sounds like it would help as I had thought

 

what does everyone use for fasteners for their aluminum panels and stuff like that?

 

Zeus fasteners are thee shit

 

Mine do not

 

Tongue weight is the important part. Familiarize yourself with it and it will help you answer your question. Anthony learned the hard way about how it can affect stability haha, especially with LT.

I know very little about towing but I do know tongue weight is usually between 10 and 15% of the GTW. Chances are you aren't pulling more than 3k lbs, and even that would put you at around 300-400 lbs of tongue weight. Probably less than the weight exerted on your springs from a fully loaded bed.

TL;DR: if you have a setup with a lower tongue weight than the weight of all that shit in your bed, it will sag less.

Hope that helps!

 

Solid advice right there

 

Some one should buy this and become my best friend:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/5616437269.html

 

Who made your rear bumper? I'm digging it.
And how did you attract the rear mud flaps to the glass?

Since personally installing my fiberglass bedsides, my actual bed (the tub) is about a 1/2 inch narrower. I learned this the hard way from installing a bed rail tire carrier my buddy gave me.

I had to use a crow bar to wedge the carrier into the bedrails.

Not stoked.

 

I made the bumper. The mud flaps are mounted to a support that runs from the glass to the frame