Long Travel BS Thread

thats not approach angle....

 

so your telling me i can have a 90* plate on the front of my truck and i have good approach angle? doesnt matter how much shit is hanging below it? as long as i get it as close to my grill as possible..

 

Also, most prerunner bumpers have the top sticking out way farther than the bottom. So if they come up to an embankment more than crossmember tall, the bumper is going to to hit and slide the truck over it. Whereas with mine, the tires hit first, exactly as intended

 

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I'll bet that bumper drags the "W" on rutted roads real bad. Damn that sits low.

If you need a bumper to not endo you're doing something very, very wrong.

I use the skid plate for whacking bushes when trying to find my way back to a road.

 

Shouldn’t the protractor be moved back to the center of the wheel? I think if it was then the area @FlapJack935 circled would limit your approach angle like people are saying.

 

FINALLY A VOICE OF REASON. I am
Glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t face plant their truck

 

this fuckin thread lol

 

why would you go at an embankment straight on in my first question...

 

This is mine when I bought it. I had 1 desert trip and I redid the lower because I was dragging the "W".

 

Damn, I fell for it. I must be really bored. Yes I am...I'm reading trip report talking about strawberry waffles.

 

I have always read that the measure is angled between where the tire leaves the ground and the lowest point. That measurement applies well to mine because no part of the bumper sticks out past that line. Most “prerunner” bumpers protrude past the approach angle axis, making the angle to the top of the bumper worse than the angle to the bottom. The reasoning behind that is beyond me, that’s why I didn’t get mine like that

 

MY truck is a true LT cause im putting a bolt-on +2 race kit but its currently in pieces in my shop so come at me with THAT, homeboy

 

I do it because my bumper is close enough to the body that I can lol. I’d rather use both front tires instead of one. With a fat lip “prerunner” bumper you have to hit embankments at an angle and put all the trucks momentum on one wheel instead of 2

 

What the heck is the "W"

 

when I had my tundra my truck was always at my fabricator more than my house lol

 

I think he means the top of wheel ruts that drag the skid plate

 

except all that shit hanging down hits first.. using both front tires at the same time on an embankment is the number one no no of crawling..

 

Not that low lol flush with that bottom frameknob thing....4wd kinda limits ya if you want to run a skid plate

 

Good thing I don’t rock crawl... and what is the “shit hanging down” lol? You mean the skid plate that wouldn’t hit the embankment because my tires would hit it first?

 

Except they won’t hit it first.. your tires will never hit it first going straight on to it like your talking...