RCLT HD 2.75" - Travel Numbers and Notes

The 8.4 disagrees, I've had 2 people in my group blow them this summer. One on 35s (bounced up soup bowl) the other kind've an outlier on 39" stickys

 

I’m kidding, if I bounce something I do so thinking it’ll be the time it goes. Nothing’s broken yet, but it’s only a matter of time. I haven’t accumulated a lot of hard wheeling trips yet, but will take being pleasantly surprised over disappointed any day.

 

I went from breaking 35 spline 60 stubs to not blowing up stock ifs with a rig thats 2x as heavy, so pretty much my mood every trip

 

I think that is what this all comes down to. You can be slow and methodical or your can be wild and throttle heavy. No matter what you are running the chances of breaking things increases with the later method.

 

True. It’s fun to goose it every now and then, but anything will break. I wheeled with a full built bouncer on Rockwells etc. He cracked his bellhousing that day. Said that was the sixth one. One quick flick of the pedal. Over in half a second. He didn’t seem disappointed but damn I think I would have been. If something breaks on the Tacoma I’m like wow I can’t believe it lasted that long

 

They are all shitboxes... some just happen to start out looking nice. its just a generic term for anyones rig. My LX470 and Taco used to be pretty. I loved snow wheeling with heated leather seats, then set the cruise for 90 on the 80 back to town. Doesnt mean i didnt hammer the living dog shit out of it on the reg. Some guys need $20k in just axles to handle the abuse plus hundreds of labor hours, and their truck may or may not "look" new or nice. Most crawlers cost waaayyyy more to build than any kit someone could buy. They still shit boxes too

 

I just wish my shit box was a Toyota

 

I think the one on 39s is just a 8.0 elocker.
I heard that guy is a douche too.

 

Total noob driver

 

Goddamn. I stepped away from this thread after my response... I have nothing to add but I'll keep watching for entertainment purposes.

Whatever, the 39's look sick on that Dbags truck. I love it.

 

Dang. I didn’t get on TW for a month and missed Mike actually responding to someone spouting off too quickly and again making sure that people who frequent this site don’t want to spend money with him. Weird. “Heir to rock crawling” what a douche!!!

Humility is strong with @BigMike

 

Marlin Crawler 2.75” here. I can’t say enough good stuff about the MC kit. I could nit pic shit apart. I am not a skinny pedal guy. The difference in ground clearance on 37s compared to any other LT kit on the market was reason enough for me. My brain hurts from trying to follow along with every internet mathematician and physics professor on TW. I travel 2000 miles, wheel for a few days in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Washington and a few places in between. I beat this MC stuff up and drive home. I clean it up, grease it and drive my MC equipped 2019 Tacoma 48 miles each way for work 4 days a week, travel all over (currently) South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia to see family and friends, wheeling in between with jeeps on 37-40” tires at Gulches off-road park and Windrock. I have limited up travel a bit, I want to keep my fender flares. (Begin the roast). I haven’t measured the angles, up travel, down travel or the degree of sun to earth to moon angle of incidence. This kit is badass, there’s shit I would never try with even gusseted spindles and stock arms, or anything else stock. I’ve had camburg and total chaos mid travel, it’s very clear when you have lower control arms of total chaos in one hand and MC in another. Total chaos IS way lighter, way better for go fast applications. MC I’d say would be great at this too … I mean there’s a reason the Sherpa guys switched… but this is definitely miles and miles better for piece of mind when I am 30 miles off in the mountains beating on my suspension. @Taco05 awesome truck @BigMike thanks for making this product. I am your audience. Any person that walks in to this thread will have the same thought as I did. There’s too much time and brain power trying very hard to hate… some are SAS guys and will never love an IFS. Some are just here to fan the flames of a bandwagon on fire. I read the first runaway thread knocking the RCLT HD and still bought the 2.75”. Peace

photo for the stuff

 

Thanks now I had to go back a re read his word salad written by a 1st year marketing major to find that sentence LOL!!

 

I didn’t even know you could read!

 

Barely that's why I'm dreading it!

Buy your truck back to wheel next weekend then sell it back to conner, he cant read or add so you can up the price.

 

Deal, but if logistics don’t work out, I’m riding with you.

 

This thread wasnt about the strength of the MC kit. It was about the marketing lies, the smoke and mirror shows, and dishonest salesman ship.

We have seen the sherpa truck wheel in person, right along side our trucks.

But we are already seeing MC stuff fail, and yet we still have big mike saying that this is the "The Ultimate Reliable HD IFS + Integrated HD Steering System Upgrade" but yet guys are blowing steering racks not even a year in. I used to get 6-9 months on a 60$ ebay tacoma rack. Not a 600 lc200 rack with custom bushings that i cant repair on trail. Oh but on the MC website is says "No more broken steering racks" yet amg_t4r destroyed one.

Oh and " Flex equal to wider LT kits yet without requiring fiberglass fenders" but no mention of trimming inner tub to run the advertised 37-40inch tires with the advertised travel numbers.

Or how about "Unmatched IFS steering strength", im pretty sure my full hydro steering on my IFS truck is stronger than your rack and pinion.

Or lets go back to big mike claiming to be the first through pritchett canyon on IFS, yet several stock width and LT toyota trucks got through before, so he revised it so that he was the only one on 40 inch tires. The others were only on 37s and 38s even 35s! andy went through with 40s but he winched a couple obstacles.

 

I went through on 35s, that was a day.

 

Not wheeling in pic though.

 

I just blew my steering pump and replaced the pump and lines. When I got to the rack I was shocked and horrified to learn that part of the RCLT rack install involves removing the high pressure flare fitting bushing from inside the rack and replacing it with a marlin adapter. This adapter requires grinding down the stock high pressure line fitting to fit inside their replacement bushing. When I removed my stock line, which had been modified and installed into the "marrack" the o-ring was crushed. I did not do this part of my original install because my truck was at a shop for regear and I figured there was no point in removing the diff twice, just do it all at once. But when I was replacing my lines and discovered the install process literally compromises the rack I was pissed. Why didn't Marlin just provide a 16x1.5 flare adapter to screw into the stock rack? The instructions have you pull out the inner bushing and modify the stock fitting but to be careful to not get metal shavings into the rack. THIS is why racks are failing, the seals are getting destroyed by metal shavings. The rack is compromised and I dont see how to replace the removed stock bushing, it seems the only solution is a whole new rack.

In my humble opinion Marlin should have left the rack alone and provided an adapter so the stock high pressure line could bolt right up. Like you said, how can this be fixed on the trail? Apparently Marlin has revised their install and they have a new bushing that doesnt require grinding down the stock fitting, however, it still requires removing the factory flare bushing from the rack.


Here you can see the ground down fitting with it's crushed o-ring on the right vs the stock fitting on the left: