Long Travel BS Thread

I didn’t mess even with the spot welds. Just did trimming and fitting after dropping the outer panels.took Some forcing. Both the passenger and driver side were completely different in terms of fitment

 

Yeah I figured it’d be a pain in the ass with the fitment, How long did it take you? I assume you used a cutoff wheel for cutting?

 

yeah cutting wheel and a sander occasionally to clean up certain areas. I don’t mean to discourage you but it was a huge PITA. Took me the better part of Saturday to figure out the first side. Testing and cutting. A lot of taking on and off. Once I got the first side done I kinda had an idea of what I was in for with the other side and it went a little faster the next day but it was still different in the way the driver side fit. You just gotta play around and hope you got a good set of glass.

 

posted some new videos and pic of the truck on IG dillon1904

 

@RUSSELLTACO

 

Hey guys looking for a silver shortbed driver side bedside if anyone close to va has switched over to glass and would like to part with one pm me!

 

@manesfesto what caught your eye enough to get you to sell your truck?

 

2nd Gen folks, Anyone here who has switched a 1-piece drive shaft, why did you switch and was it a worthwhile improvement? Like to hear your thoughts if anyone has done it. Trying to educate myself after fiddling with my two-piece shaft for last two months.

 

Couple questions - is it the carrier bearing or something else and do you plan on going sua soon?

 

Extra Beefy Taco Supreme > original soft taco | A comparison of the new fabricated uprights against the OEM Tacoma spindles.

 

Home made v. Taco Bell

 

I have one and love it, solves a lot of driveline bs...but I don’t think you can do one on a long bed due to length limitations ? The other limitation is gearing and how it translates to drive shaft rpm’s, with a dcsb i am limited to 4:30 gears if i want to be able to drive over 80mph

 

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