Long Travel BS Thread

You are correct in wanting to be in a good range of bump vs droop travel. But your looking at it wrong the goal is not to adjust where you sit in travel spectrum using preload that is made for fine tuning adjust it with proper spring height/rate then make minor adjustments with the preload. Hopefully that makes since and I think everyone can agree with this. (Sometimes it takes a couple tries to get correct springs)

 

I'm not bashing in anyway. If your running a 8" coilover I think the recommended rate is 600# but I'll let others chime in. My vote is to cut up a brand new truck and go all out. That's what I did so don't be a pussy and go to town. Oh and bypasses or get the fuck out

 

Comparing to trophy trucks is apples to oranges. Tube chassis with tons of travel they can can have a low ride height but still have 12" of uptravel left, bolt on LT doesn't have that option. I would shoot for 60uptravel/40 down. Gives you enough travel before you hit bumps, but you still have some down travel.

 

If you want the 50/50 or 60/40 up vs down travel make that your goal and then think of it as making large adjustments with springs and then once your close to where you wanna be then fine tune with preload to get it perfect.

 

Once again your argument is invalid. You can't use the dirt bike setup argument, The tire is directly connected to the shock. Not the case on your truck, just because you only have 4"of shaft showing that does not mean you have 4" of up travel. See what I'm saying? 4" of shaft could equal 8" of travel, obviously you want the most amount of up travel and a 60/40 split is ideal. But on a kit you have other factors to consider, tire clearance at bump, ground clearance at bump etc. does that help?

 

I have to admit Im still a noob when it comes to LT theory to say the least, but with that being said I gather that its like have your axle and the shock being two independent items that work in tandem to a limited degree?

 

litterally just crank the coilover s until you like where it sits. It will be fine.

I know what your going for, but you are wayyyyyy over thinking it.

 

im running pretty much zero preload on my setup.. tie rods sit parallel to the ground

 

Your forgetting one thing: alignment.
If it can't get a proper alignment it's either too low or too high.

My truck has this problem, if I want 60/40 my alignment would suffer as each truck is a bit different.

 

since nobody answered... National leaf springs good bad ?

 

Well, we appear to be back on track! Axle is back in the truck, new body bushings have been installed, front diff is out and getting re-geared, the remaining mounting points from my leaf springs and panhard setup have all been cut out along with the spare tire bracket, 4-link getting dialed in, new beefy coil buckets coming together, there is also talk about a rear sway bar.





My hopes are up that I'll be out in the back country again soon.

 

Why does it say that I need to update my account to third-party hosting?

 

If you are using Photobucket it's toast they want 400$ yr. Google recent news about it. Get your files off there as soon as you can, good luck with incessant popup windows ads while you do. You need to find new hosting site or upload to media files here on tw, link from there

 

Does that mean everything I have on Photobucket currently is gone? I'm unable to download my photos?

 

No I was able to recover mine they are still there but I ran into aggressive popup ads and windows I was unable to back click out of. Noone is Going to pay the 400 except for few suckers it's a shakedown. Think angelcities, tripod, geocities. Too many unpaid customers an their biz model didn't work. When they ask for yearly fee people flee and the company goes belly up. A lot of old posts on forums have dead pic links because of this. Other sites still have free hosting such as flickr and Amazon, though I was unable to figure out the bbcode of my amazon files.

 

Your files are fine, they changed their policy for free 3rd party (tw, etc) hosting. Don't sweat it but I would recommend copying everything anyway and having it in multiple cloud based services for this very reason.

 

Right, haha aaa

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/photobucket-no-longer-supporting-3rd-party-hosting.498692/

 

You could just save to a computer/phone, have a cloud backup (onedrive, iCloud, google drive) and just upload from your computer/phone. I never really saw the advantage of using photobucket or Flickr...especially on here.

 

How much storage are you allowed to have on here - I've been using imgur.com, but I don't want to have to go through redoing all the stuff I've done at some point if not necessary?

 

can any solid work guys on here answer a question for me?