Long Travel BS Thread

i know for a fact that came out of a shop here in SD i just cant remeber which one,that pic is around 5 years old or older

 

lol, thanks. 7 extra bucks and almost everybody going to the show walks by it , cheapest advertising yet...

if i was baller status id be parking inside the first building. maybe next year . but my trucks cousin made it there



Defined SUA FTW

 

Ok guys, I have a stupid Newb question for you long travel guys. I just bought Kevin's from ATO truck, and I love it, and its awesome, but I'm used to quite of rear travel and was wondering what I could to do to improve rear articulation? He has made a awesome set of shackle flips on it and some 5100s on the back, but I want more! LOL
Here what it looks like now...


and I'm thinking something like this... This was done with no shocks in it.

This is what I'm used to




any ideas? I wont be jumping it or anything, more for crawling so if I'm in the wrong area, feel free to slap me. LOL

 

like this?

 

Triangulate the shocks

 

wtf kevin sold his truck?

 

Tacokid, Yes, just like that! What have you done?

cummins dude say what? LOL Is that what you did tacokid? if so wtf does that mean and look like? I salesman, not a mech. (hence the reason I bought kevin's BA rig. LOL )

And yes nofords08. Its only been on sale for a yr or so... twice! LOL

 

if you like what tacokid posted then your looking at a SUA(Spring Under Axel) kit. long travel for the rear

 

hahah all i did was post a picture. this is the man behind the beast. and from a first hand experience and being in the passenger seat for quite a bit, this thing is fuckin mean.

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/138220-jasons-long-travel-toy-taco.html

mine isnt that mean




once i stop being a lazy ass and get a job, this is the SUA (spring under axle) i will be getting.

http://www.definedengineering.com/products.html

 

What are your plans for the truck? High speed desert type stuff or low speed rock crawling and trails?

 

Thanks for the info, or the word triangulate at least, its lead me to quite a few pages now.

More low speed stuff as the truck is more set up for it IMO, and thats what I'm used to, what I bought the truck for was to be able to travel around to diff. states and not worry about my landrover having issues (even tho mine never gave me any troubles, but you know what they say about LR if its not leaking, its out of fluid) so I bought kevin's to take me up to colorado or az or anywhere else and be able to explore trails, tow our dirt bikes and stuff, and most of the time we travel by ourselves so I want the most capable truck I can have will still being a DD. When I wheeled it today for the first time, I noticed that it was lacking in the rear flex dept and just wanted to see my options. I dont know how much more $ I want to spend on it right now, but hey if its not that bad i'll do it.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

If you're going more for low speed I wouldn't waste your money on a bed cage and long shocks. Just look into triangulating the rear shocks and run some 5100's

 

with out even looking up what triangulating the rear shocks, is that the set up JLee is running?

 

I believe so

 

triangulating your shocks will not do you good going high spped. not at all

 

triangulating your rear shocks wont help you flex it out on the trail and its even worse for high speed stuff. where do you guys get this crap from?

 

Triangulating your shocks allows you to run longer shocks without punching a hole in the bed in turns allowing more droop then the stock shock location. It helps a lot with 2nd Gens seeing how the stock shock location limits the rear spring travel. And yes Triangulation of shocks for high speed sucks because you reduce the shock damping. Ideally you want the shocks at 90* or close to but if you want droop and don't want to cut holes in your bed and run a bed cage triangulating your shocks will allow more droop.

 

so i guess that scammer guy is coming to my house on monday
i hope he knows the gun laws here in az are WAY different than ca.
i know hes not actually coming, but still lol

im up to about 2,000 messages from him. i cant block him cause its not coming from his phone, its coming from like 10 different emails

its not really pissing me off tho lol.

 

Yeah that's pretty much what I said