Long Travel BS Thread

I replaced the carrier bearing and all 3 u-joints with spicer OEM so that's all good, I'm still ruling out some other gremlins as well (gonna see if tire rebalancing and u-joints on front shaft help). I have a good setup for SOA so I'm gonna stick with it and tune the shit out it (hoping to attain 6"-7" of bump travel after some modifications).

 

Thanks for the quick response, Jason. I read about the length limitations, I thought that was strange. Oh interesting, making sure I understand this right, you cannot gear higher than 4.30 because of the increase in driveshaft speed to wheel speed? I'm already on 4.56s, and most I ever hit on highway is 80mph and ironically that's where I don't have any vibrations. I get a harsh harmonic drone right at 50-60 mph.

 

To quote Tom Woods when I asked about 4:56’s for my short bed “ at 70 mph your drive shaft would turn into a jump rope “

Quite a few guys have added a double cardon joint to their two piece drive shaft which seems to be a great solution to drive line vibes

 

Good info there. I'm thinking that might be my problem on the drivershaft if it is transmitting this kind of feedback through the new carrier bearing. Before the carrier bearing everything was good, driveline was super smooth but the bearing was shot so no feedback.

 

How much lift are those spindles?

 

Those arnt probably lift spindles, those are for a long travel kit.

 

They’re for sure both. That’s a long ass spindle to have the lower Uniball still below the hub and not in line with it.

 

Yeah I get that but I’m running 4” maxTrac right now with my camburg kit but switching it out for the bolt on LSK kit but you it’s hard to believe that big ass spindle is the same as his factory spindle on the right

 

These will provide some lift, I forgot how much. The uni-ball sits behind the hub as a Maxtrac spindle does. Also, I have completely different shock and UCA mounts.

 

You know you're going to lose your lift when you put on that LSK kit, right? it's not compatible with that Mactrac spindle.

 

Yeah these are 2.5” lift and it comes with fabricated spindles so getting rid of the maxTrac

 

LSK’s new 2wd race kit ?

 

No, a completely new Tacoma LT kit

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/zona-motorsports-2wd-tacoma-custom-long-travel-kit-build.651321/

 

Right right, I’ve seen you post it here before.
Looks like it’s gonna be a nice kit !

 

Thanks, I think so too. I'm pretty excited.

 

Are there any differences between the high angle miss alignment spacers for uniballs out there? I'm working on my mid travel arms and I think I can squeeze some more travel out if switch to high angle but wasn't sure which set to get.

 

Not sure if you have yet, but make sure your coilover doesn't bottom at full jounce as well.

 

I'm actually going to remake the arms and this time the shocks will be mounted to I can check for clearance and binding

 

Depends on your uniball cup, if its like the total chaos cup they have some special shaped misalignment spacer for them, and if its a standard cup they just have a simple taper and you use standard misalignments.
Like so , https://www.kartek.com/parts/17-4-s...r-1-heim-or-uniball-for-34-bolt-2-34-stk.html

 

Ahhh ok so if I'm going to use Camburg cups this time I should look at their misalignment spacers.