Malburg114's 3Link go fast SAS

Shock towers are tacked in, suspension cycled for the last time and filler pieces are cut. Should have it on its own weight tomorrow.

Driver Side
2016-05-10_04-06-23 by Harrison M, on Flickr

Passenger
2016-05-10_04-06-39 by Harrison M, on Flickr

Something different from most Tacomas.

 

Drove it around the block a few times today. Seems to drive well. Had to rebleed the brakes a few times and checked all the fluids. Now to double check all hardwear and touch everything up and install the shocks. Then to flex it out and break everything in.

2016-05-11_04-17-37 by Harrison M, on Flickr

2016-05-11_04-17-48 by Harrison M, on Flickr

New frame height is just shy of 24 inches now. Pretty happy with how it came out.

 

Looks good! Where are the bumpers? lol

 

Thanks. Rear bumpers still on, Front bumper was a prerunner style bumper that mounted to ifs sooo it had to be reworked a little. Plus adding a winch.

 

Looks great!

 

Dude hell yeah!!!

 

Thanks guys pretty stoked on how it turned out. Now to just finish the little things and do the bumpers and such.

 

Looks sick!

 

Sad part is no driving it for a while. Still have a pretty big list of things to do before I can daily it. And still have to break everything in

 

You're gonna daily this thing??

 

He didn't build it just to look at it!

 

What he said! Nahh can't afford insurance on two cars and it was my daily before and will be for a long time. But when I can afford two cars, new daily will probably be a little old toyota regular cab pickup.

 

Well no shit haha. I just figured he didn't wanna rack up the miles on this thing unless it's off-road

Ah gotcha!

 

Sweet! What hubs are those? Those lockouts dont look toyota.

 

Sub sub sub.

 

Truck just hit 125kkk right before I started all this. Racking up the miles sucks especially since I drive almost 40 miles a day to work but it is what it is.

 

Lockouts are AVM. They where on the axle when I got them so I'll use them till they break. But I do have a set of ifs asin lockouts and also got a set of 4runner lockouts that make it so they are always in 4wd for if I ever break one on the trail.

I'll gladly trade my ifs lockouts for some solid axle ones! haha I wish. If I ever break an axle shaft, I thought I read you could get chromoly ones with 30 spline inner and 27 spline outer so you can use the ifs hubs? May be wrong and won't happen for a longggg time cause they are crazy expensive.

 

Its all in the small details for me. Passenger side is done, bed is bolted back on, all eletrical is secured, everything is painted. Should be able to go for a small cruise tomorrow to start breaking in gears and maybe get some flex shots finally.

If you guys have any questions about the swap, let me know. No real secrets in my build and I tried to post as much as I could. Hope some of this is able to help someone else do theirs.

2016-05-13_06-46-51 by Harrison M, on Flickr

 

Truck is all together and I think finally done except for armor and some other small things. Drove it down the street and hit some bumps and went to the usual mound to flex it a little. Still has some more to go but im pretty dang happy with this thing. Now to break in gears and make sure it doesnt have any problems. Should be back to daily duties next week.

DSC_0699.JPG by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0695.JPG by Harrison M, on Flickr

 

And now for some final pictures and specs.

Front frame height is 23 3/8" and rear is 23 1/2". Front has about 3-3 1/4" of uptravel and rear is at 6 1/2" of uptravel.

DSC_0705 by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0706 by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0711 by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0712 by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0696.JPG by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0700.JPG by Harrison M, on Flickr

DSC_0702.JPG by Harrison M, on Flickr