Old Man Emu: Questions, Answers & Pictures

Got a picture? Sounds odd that you have that. Top plate spacers wouldn't be pre-installed anyway, mine came loose in the packaging.

 

My phone is acting up but it just had the spacers put on top of my assembled coils with the nuts finger tight holding it down. I'm just curious how much extra lift the 1/2" spacer gives

 

7/8-1"

 

Hmm that's more than I want. So I guess I have a diff drop, extra trim packer and 1/2" spacers for sale then haha

 

Why do you have an extra trim packer ?

 

Good luck selling the differential drop on here. They aren't very well liked on this forum.

 

I ordered one thinking they would throw it in when they assembled the fronts for me but when I opened up the box I found one installed on my fronts and an extra in the second box I got. I guess the sales guy I spoke with must of forgotten

 

Ya I didn't get a chance to read up much about them before I ordered and it was strongly suggested by the sales guy.

 

Who did you order through? Doesn't sound like they were very helpful, or they just wanted your money.

 

Cochrane Toyota, they were pretty good just I probable should have called instead doing everything through email. Kind of a weird transaction... Just weird that I got an extra trim packer for no reason, spacers I cancelled on and a diff drop that was strongly suggested. Maybe I'll contact them again and send the stuff I don't want back to them and get my money back

 

Heads up I didn't hear anything about the abs wires. Try to be super careful with them. if the stretch your abs goes out and your limited slip does too. Unless that's just my truck. Haha but much luck.

 

I went here with ome and duratracs, very stoked on the setup.

 

Im leaning towards a Dakar leaf pack, but I dont want the full 3" lift so I would take a leaf out. How does that effect bed capacity? I throw dirtbikes in there, about ~500 lbs total and my stock springs totally flatten and rainbow a little.

 

You lose load handling performance as well as ride height

 

Yeah Im trying to figure out how much I would lose. See Im trying to get leveled out with 2-2.5" in the front. I dont haul anything, just put up to 500lbs in the bed once in a while.

 

Well the actual load capacity of the truck doesn't change by adding the Dakars , it just reacts differently to loads

My truck has 450lbs in it at all times and squats 1"-1 1/2" over unloaded with the Dakars , they don't drop at all until I go over about 200 lbs

As far as ride height drop by losing the 3rd , I would suspect you would lose 3/4"

Have you seen the Dakar ride height thread ?

 

The lower overload will engage the pack later though as it is curved downward

 

I'm just saying the upper overload is flatter so X load will be engaged earlier by the overload than the same load by the lower on it's own due to the fact that the ends of the lower curve downward

 

Why not just remove the 3rd as per OME specs ?

No AAL yet

 

Looking forward to pics of the removal