Long Travel BS Thread

I will take some pictures tonight.

Edit:

Here is a pic from his thread where you can kind of see what it does. His just supports the LCA mounts, not the tabs. It connects the top edge of the mount back to the frame:

 

Thanks,

Being someone who already has the TC gussets, the Dirt Designs kit seems to make more sense. Can't seem to find their website though.

 

I had to PM them about it as they dont always have them around. I dont know if they have a jig to replicate the kit now, but they had to wait for a tacoma to be worked on before they could shape mine gussets.

 

Sounds like something I can do with a plasma cutter, some cardboard, a 12 pack of silver bullets, and a jar of KY.

 

So yours came bent to curve around the mount? Mine came flat and I asked Steve if he had plans to make a jig. lined it up on the frame, tacked in the corners, then slowly bent it into place around the mount. Tap with the hammer, tack weld, tap with the hammer, tack weld. Once it is bent around the mount and tacked a few times, just go back through and burn it in.

 

Kind of what I had in mind. I can cut the template and just tack and form as necessary.

 

Yep mine came curved although I think he gave me the option to have them precut only if I wanted. I should be able to tack them right on when I get the opportunity to do so.

 

Is the cam bolt exposed on the front side?

 

Yeah you still have full access to the cam bolts.

 

Bwahaaha! dont drag me back into this shit show thread. You can add sytfu510 to that list, his and monkeyproof's LCA almost ripped off. I found mine cracked after seeing sytfu510 post photos of his. I half-assed squirted some steel on there and about a year later the base metal started to crack through again on the driver side.

You have to email them to get a set. Also Toyota changed the 2019 LCA mounts so Dirt Design's kit doesn't fit right, apparently I was the first one to put a set on a 2019.

 

Marlin designed this because his truck hit a rock and ripped the whole mount off. That may be a bit extreme and something most of us will never do but I’m a shit driver and since I don’t have any gusset so far and this is the same price as tab gusset it seems like an awesome design. Didn’t realize people were so passionate about lca gussets lmao was just expecting a “oh that’s cool” response

I should be sponsored

 

Soo I heard you put on cam tab gussets, so we got some gussets to gusset your cam tab gussets.

 

I have a problem

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ks-with-b-s-talk.474632/page-15#post-17693441

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiwqvVyHANN/?igshid=7ckhhpfxtavo

 

and guess who gave that dude a headsup almost an entire year ago on the failures of the LCA and other trouble area with pics too?

 

IMO the design of that kit is seriously stupid...why didn’t they just make a piece like tc tabs ie: you knock off the oe tabs and then have a kit that is the gussett and a whole new tab surface in one ?

 

These look great.

I posted this question in that thread, but maybe some people here will have had this issue as well.

I have small cracks in a couple of the LCA mounts as others have posted pictures of that I drilled / welded, but the bigger problem is my driver rear LCA mount is bent back to the point of not being able to get alignment 100% in spec... Anyone have any recommendations on how to get it back to straight? I don't want to weld the gussets on only to find out that its not straight enough.

 

Well this part sucked




Finished disassembling them, reassembly soonish

 

I think they were going for the "If your LCA mount is completely stock i.e. no cam tab gussets then this kit is all you need and can put on without taking anything apart. Just hold it up and burn it in" which is nice because then you dont need to get an alignment or tear down the bottom half of your suspension for install.

 

I thought the same thing