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Long Travel Taco Build MRK 2

Discussion in 'Long Travel Suspension' started by IFS4LIFE, Jan 4, 2015.

  1. May 20, 2015 at 7:38 PM
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    IFS4LIFE

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    I have 5.29s in the diffs and a crawl box in the works but I need a little more rpm to work with lol. When I light em up, I need them to be spinning. I drive like I build, very methodical, but once I commit I need to know the red line won't be the first thing I hit.
     
  2. May 20, 2015 at 8:25 PM
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    Most v8s have a lower red line anyways. Least the ones your looking at
     
  3. May 20, 2015 at 8:28 PM
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    Toyota's are the most pissed off at redline. Anything less would be uncivilized.
     
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  4. May 20, 2015 at 8:30 PM
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    True story. My truck loves the upper rpms now more then ever with 5.29s

    It's the best.
     
  5. May 20, 2015 at 8:37 PM
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    My neighbors give me shit for it. I tell them it's the song of my people but they just don't get it. Facebook has ruined them all.
     
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  6. May 20, 2015 at 8:50 PM
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    Shame. They never understand.
     
  7. May 22, 2015 at 12:10 PM
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    All right, for ease of installation and from what I've learned, S/C is on order. If i have to up the compression to make it run better, then I'll cross that path when I get there. We'll do the 7th injection, under drive, fuel mods, and some tuning to start.
     
  8. May 22, 2015 at 12:17 PM
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    I wouldn't bother with an underdrive pulley. You can just run a smaller nose pulley on the s/c and you'll top out the s/c capabilities without affecting the rest of your accessories.
     
  9. May 22, 2015 at 12:25 PM
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    I've been told that the Smaller nose pulley likes to eat belts, but a bigger crank pulley might solve that issue and I could just re-machine the other pulleys to get them back to stock ratios.
     
  10. May 22, 2015 at 2:15 PM
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    Can't say I agree. Buy a quality nose pulley and you wont' have problems. I've been using the URD 2.2 for well over 3 years. I've changed the belt once, just because I had the engine apart, and still have it as a spare in my truck toolbox.
     
  11. May 22, 2015 at 2:30 PM
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    Nice. and I'm not sure my other source was the easiest on his motor, but it ran good and he's pretty knowledgeable so we'll see what experiences I end up with.
     
  12. May 24, 2015 at 5:36 PM
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    Spent most of the weekend working on a friends Mazda so my lower arms will be delayed until tomorrow/Tuesday. Headed to Flagstaff this upcoming weekend so I have to get them done in time bolt them on before that. I did however have time to install my vision-X rock lights. A bit more bling than I need with all the controls, but they serve their purpose and they're cheaper than anything rigid makes.

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    James Bond Remote
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    Keyport that I've had for a few years. If you don't know what these are, check it out I won't go back to normal keys after having this.
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    Solid on
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  13. May 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM
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    20150527_210728_16364abaa9563fc871e98183afa8aa2baf45f9c2.jpg Assembled Wed. night, bolted on yesterday, getting tested this weekend. Using a more traditional outer ball joint adapter slug for a comparison to the spherical ball adapter the first set had.
     
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  14. May 29, 2015 at 1:54 PM
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    Is that a stock width LCA?
     
  16. Jun 1, 2015 at 10:46 AM
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    This is another LT Control Arm, with some changes to the first one. The first set had some weird issues that I thought might be caused by the uni-ball I put out where the lower ball joint should be so I did this set with the traditional adapter for the stock lower ball joint. I also made 2-3 other changes. Unfortunately the problem is fixed, so I'm going to have to make another arm with the uni-bal on the lower ball joint again so I can see which one of the changes actually fixed the issue.

    New Arm with normal ball joint adapter
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    Clown Car it sits on
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    Blow Off Valve in action, but that's about it lol.
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    Some Misc. Photos from the weekend.

    A nice WK with a solid axle swap and a few parts I might have had a hand in
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    In the red rocks of Sedona
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    The group
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    Trying to get the spring unloaded so I could add some more pre-load (+20" of travel problems)
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    Did you make the links yourself?
     
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    on which vehicle?
     
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