San Antonio

Morning y’all
Warming up the truck to a little Sunday morning jams....



https://youtu.be/8vvg6_vrOQU

 

Thats cool!

 

Morning Fellas

 

Morning, more tournaments today?

 

No, thank god lol have the day to myself might go wash the truck very dirty

 

Cool, thought about washing mine but haven't made up my mind about that. About to go out and work on the shop again, still tons to do to it.

 

What are the benefits of going with a Deaver Medium Pack over HeadStrong Add a leaf or any of the add a leafs?

 

Nice, ordered ram mount swivel and touch up paint from Amazon came in yesterday now waiting on the xgrip and 1 inch ball on Monday for pillar mount

 

David, will try to answer this based on the information I have learned. The add a leaf only bolts onto your existing pack, mine were sagging so bad I can't imagine it would of helped in the end. The deavers can be ordered in several different versions depending on your overall goals.

Here is an email I got from @HeadStrong Off-Road as it give some good information as Marie deserves the credit for this, just sharing.

here are quite a few options for full leaf pack replacements. I find it helpful to provide my customers with a comparison that I created of the different ones we offer. This way they can see which one may suit their specific needs. We can also have a custom Deaver pack made as well.

There are two different OME leaf packs: the EL095R which they consider their light/medium duty leaf pack and the EL096R which they consider to be heavy duty. Either of the OME Dakar full leaf pack replacements will provide quite a bit more hauling, towing, and off-road capability over the stock pack. However both will be stiffer since you are adding more steel out back. The EL095R will affect this less since it has one less leaf spring in the pack. ARB spec's out their light/medium duty EL095R pack to provide around 2.75” of lift over stock on an 05-15 running 0lbs to GVW and around 2" on a 2016+ running the same amount of weight. The heavy duty pack has one extra leaf in it and will increase the load capacity by around 15%. ARB slates this pack to provide around 2.75” of lift over stock on an 05-15 running around 660lbs of constant weight and around 2" on a 2016+ running the same amount of weight. With either pack the amount of weight you add to the rear end will directly affect the amount of lift you see from the packs (meaning, if you add 1000lb to the bed of your Tacoma and are running the heavy duty pack you will no longer see that 2.75" of lift) For me, I find it hard to equate things to heavy or light/medium duty. Because it really depends on how much weight is being added, if the weight is consistent or not, and where the weight is being added to. Now ARB does have the EL046XL add-a-leaf which directly converts the light/medium duty pack into the heavy duty one or it can be added into the heavy duty into an even heavier duty pack. It will add around 15mm of lift and a 15% higher spring rate. The add-a-leaf is not something that we usually recommend if you are just looking to gain lift height. There are other ways to gain more lift without affecting the ride quality like the add-a-leaf does. After the redesign I created this write up on TW in case you wanted to check it out. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/new-ome-dakar-leaf-pack-review.489540/

The Skyjacker leaf pack acts more like a stock replacement and provides a a similar ride quality but a little bit more capabilities in terms of supporting a small amount of weight in the back of the truck. They are spec'd out a 2"-2.25" lift increase but from the feedback I have from my customers most only see around a 1" increase.

The Deaver J66 leaf spring pack will provide a nicer on-road ride then most of the other after-market leaf packs and is known to perform very well off-road. It is spec'd out to provide around 1.5" of lift over stock. If you do have consistent weight in the bed of the truck, tow or haul this pack wasn't really designed with that in mind so it can be lacking in that area.

The Deaver U402 picks up where the J66 leaves off. This pack features 7 main leaves and 2 overloads and is designed in a way to help support weight and provide lift. It can have additional leafs added to support additional amounts of weight as well. The basic U402 pack will provide around 3" of lift on a Tacoma running around 300-400lbs of additional weight in the bed. If the weight is less than that then the lift will be more and the ride will in-turn be stiffer. The U402 II will provide around 3" of lift on a Tacoma running around 500-700lbs of additional weight and the U402 III pack will provide around the same amount of lift with an additional 700lb+ weight. Again the less weight the more lift and potentially a stiffer ride quality.

 

Do yall have a kml for the route yall went on? Id love to check this out when i finally have some free time! Definitely wish i couldve made it

 

Morning folks! Pics as promised of the sliders

 

Nice.

 

Thanks man! I love the way they turned out

Chris did a stellar job, as usual

 

Thanks man! So I am thinking of the light/medium duty Deaver pack. I have a bed cap so maybe 180-200lbs and dont carry much load in the back. That will give me 2” of clearance out back. Going to run Bilstein 6112/5160 with settings up front to provide 2” of clearance. Unless the heavy duty Deaver Pack will be better even though I only carry 200lbs out back with the cap/gear.

 

More details?

 

I ended up with the Dakar’s and really like them.

 

Theyre the weld on kit from 4x innovations. They were 350 shipped to my door, and then i had to get chris to weld them on for me. Theyre the kind that you can basically custom fit however you like them, angled, flat or whatever you please

 

I’m sure you spent more time driving then Chris did welding them on

 

Yeah good call, i drove about 6hrs, it only took him about 4 to fit them, weld them, i painted them, and then he welded them to the truck

Also chopped the cab mount at the same time

 

Ya I was thinking about tackeling the cmc today but not sure, may push it to another weekend.