Long Travel BS Thread

they are everywhere. Not gonna get away from them by switching brands of vehicles.

That said, i think in general most Toyota people are great.

 

every car club /fan base does. we all just need to smoke a bowl about it.

 

most of the d bag ones i see have stock 2nd gens with hooy and salt life stickers and mossy oak seat covers cause their so kuntry down in Georgia haha

 

Since you brought it up, can you enlighten me about the Salt life crap? I see them all over the place here...is it repping the beach or something?

Coor

 

It's all the cen cal scene here,big ass trucks everything powdercoated and lifted, they talk shit about how low my truck is after I did all that work.... they just don't get it lol, comical really because I don't get what they're doin at all...looks? Looks retarded.shit my truck is like stock ride hieght jut big ol tires and some squish

 

The wannabe fab shop right by my house says the same shit constantly. I stopped by again about 6 months ago because I heard they got a new mechanic that can actually do fabrication, asked about a ruffstuff axle for the rear, dude starts checking out my truck "why'd you spend all that money and get no lift? I could totally get you a good 6" lift for like half of what you spent I bet". Facepalm, just call me if you guys can source the axle and install it. No call back, figures.

 

one thing I dont get is The rubber band Like tires on huge 20+ rims like why?? How does that even look good, they probably ride like shit too.

 

4wd set em before your cv binds, 2wd before any joint binds and a lil bit for a buffer zone of strap stretch

 

Doesn't necessarily apply since you don't have TC, but TC 2ng gen kits should be set to 1/4" gap on the upper UCA top misalignment spacer and the uniball cup edge.

 

Before shit binds!!!

 

I pulled guys like that out in Pismo and chuckled to myself the whole time. Big ass Dodges with 12" lift on 37s or bigger, stuck axles deep because they're 2WD and figured rooster tails would get them out of anything. The funny one was when I had to explain to the dude parked uphill in deep sand how he got stuck

 

Yeah if it doesn't state anything specific you'll have to check for binding on the CV and uniballs, figure out which binds first and then strap it with some safety factor added.

 

I think it adds sex appeal for the bro-hos?

Coot

 

Salt life is deep sea fishing gear company. Big around Florida. but for some reason i see stickers out here in new mexico and crap is really funny. Same with the "dirty money", thats the florida stanced truck deal i guess. I dont care for the stanced trucks and crap, still gay imo. But the dudes that try to act country and hard asses with their shit box cumming with the huge stupid C on the back window and dip skoal pouches really just makes me scratch my head.

 

I think we both share similar gripes on this. Damn funny!

Coot

 

its not too bad. my brother has an ext cab 7.3 with all of these set ups and the lowered and stretched 24x14s on that little 305 or what ever rode the best, and he towed it lowered and stanced like that all the way to hammers and moab haha

 

I would suggest going with an adjustable clevis for this, either way before CV bind.

My first time around on my truck I cycled and found where it barely didn't bind and went up like an 1" then burned the tabs on. Assembled it and no bind, used it once and the strap stretched and pulled a CV apart. Ended up twisting the straps until I had no bind. Eventually that ripped the straps (lasted about 6 months of weekend use) so when I replaced them I also got adjustable clevises and adjust them every so often.

 

http://accutuneoffroad.com/shock_tuning/

Good read for shock tuning.

 

The guy who did mine had to cut my shafts as well when he was installing them. Each set is its own beast, I will gladly pass that job onto someone else.

Coot

 

I had him custom tune some shocks for me and hes been a stand up guy. going to have him do the same for the front shocks soon.