Long Travel BS Thread

It took me like 3 years to finally start estimating tubing correctly when it comes to cab cages LOL. I'm thinking, "60 feet? That's a shit ton of tubing. That would be more than enough"....

 

An extremely impressive setup at that, beautiful in person. May or may not have influenced my build a little bit.

Wish they would have pulled off a longer panhard. I'll just have to see how much the shorter length changes things up. Fingers are crossed that wont have too much side to side movement.

I was slightly worried that the axle truss would interfere with the panhard bar but with this setup its a nonissue

 

I'm sure it will be just fine. I would however bring up the potential issue of water and dirt build-up. I'm sure they will pop in 2 small plates to seal up the void just below the heim mount.

 

Thats probably enough for a single cab haha

 

My take on that span hard link is that ride height you want that link to be as flat as possible. If you could have it parallel to the housing, that would be ideal. That's not possible in most cases. What sort of work does the shop do normally that's doing your rear suspension? The plate work and Welding looks fan-freaking-tastic. I'm just a little concerned that you're not going to get the travel out of it that you are hoping for. A short panhard bar like that is going to give you lots of lateral movement during the suspension cycle.

 

Bull fucking shit LOL. I had a hundred feet in my last cat cage and I'm sure it'll be another 20 feet in the next one. Once this single cabs done and it either gets parked in the back for ever or sent down the river, I'll be doing a full size 4 door cab and Tube chassis. Maybe I will drive the single cab for 3 years while the 4 door is getting put together. Who needs to sleep in it anyways?

 

It all depends how extensive you want the cage to be too, personally overbuilt better than underbuilt is best

 

added the extra noise maker to the truck today

 

The benefit to the shorter sway bar will be the extra room outside the frame rails to fit a sway bar. I personally won't design a street driven rear link setup without Atleast a way to add a sway bar in the future. You're gonna want it.

 

back to steering....do you just give up your horn? im gunna need to do this soon but I like my horn feature

 

Yea, I kept the wiring in tact within the colum so I may try to incorporate something later but for now it's gone

 

Any first gen guys need some double cab bedsides? Have new 7" flare like rojo got for his rebuild.

 

parting out?

 

Lol, no fucking way he's not.

 

better not be lol saw he was selling his shocks now this i was getting concerned lol

 

He's just going to run longer shocks and probably different bedsides. He's definitely not getting rid of the truck. It's a nice truck and it's going to come out fantastic.

 

This. Gonna do some different stuff and get the truck running finally.

Pic of bedsides:

 

Moving slowly, but made progress. Dropped the cage over the weekend to get to the top. Didn't need to have the rear window pulled

 

Selling my 30" Rigid race bar. Has red running lights, brake lights, amber dust lights, white work lights. Comes with wiring harness for the white light, black and smoke covers. $600 OBO in OC, CA

 

Guess Ruffstuff finally got their 55" trailing arms back in stock. What trailing arm angle would you guys recommend? Also does 55" seem about right for a second gen access cab? http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com...roduct_Code=R1761&Category_Code=dracer-prerun