TERRIBLE TURNING RADIUS AFTER 6" FABTECH INSTALL??!!

I noticed right off the bat.

My buddy went and had his fixed right after he fingered out my joke with him.....he said his tracked and turned better since

 

so after all your feed back and answer about my problem i decided i'd pull the trigger and just start cutting sh*t left and right

i added some pictures of my entire process for those who decide to follow my route











i measured to show how much i cut off on mine, if you cut your stoppers, you dont have to cut off as much as i did.

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this is after cutting the stoppers i ran into a little problem on both driver and passenger side next to the coil spring the i had to move over so that my tire did not rub when turning
Its a brake line extension after getting the 6" Fabtech Lift
Had to do the same thing on both sides (driver and passenger side)







---Thats where i moved the brake line i attached it to the arm-----------



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This is something i found in the shed, came with a free diamond blade which i used




now i can finally turn normally like how i did before the lift.
thank you again for all and everyone's help, hope my problem ended helping somebody with the same issue

 

Glad it worked out in the end for ya!

 

also for those who have a sway bar in the front after a 6" lift, rip that f**ken shit off and toss it before its too late!!!!!!!!!!!!
cuz i went to the beach and went off-road.
30mins in i start hearing and weird thumping noise under the front end
once i decided to check it out this is what i find....









it was so much force that 2 bolts that hold the sway bar were ripped out with no thread left at all to rebolt the bolts
had to drive home with a strap holding the damn thing up so it wouldnt hit my CV joints

 

what do you think??

 

wow this thread is a god send,,just bought a truck with a 6" fabtech lift and holy cow you cant even turn the damn wheels its that bad..i was wondering what the problem was and what a solution might be and this thread covers it all
hey OP if your still around i was wondering you mentioned you didnt need to cut off so much off the stoppers,,it looks like you cut it back to 1 3/4 if you had to do it over what would you say would be adequate like maybe 2 1/4 overall length?

by the way nice truck

 

In case this helps anyone else you dont need to hack off the stops to 1 3/4 you'll just rip the sway bar off i cut mine to just a tad under 2 1/4 long and if i turn hard the tires will just barely brush the sway bar not hard enough to do any damage and the turning is much better..

 

That's some fucked up shit bro, I'd remove that in a heartbeat if my rig couldn't fit through the drive thru !

 

Anyone think about the combined lift and turning angle on the CV maybe was causing them to fail and that's why they made the block bigger?

 

This will help me big time. My turn radius is awful. Has anything mechanically gone wrong since you cut your stops?

 

nope so far nothing..granted its been less then a year since i cut them..the good thing is you dont have to cut very much off at all to achieve a wider turning angle..its just a sliver so i cant anticipate it causing too much damage

 

Has anyone had problems with the wear on the outside of their front tires after shortening the stops?

I bought a 2016 Tundra with a Procomp 6" lift and 35s. The outsides of the tires were worn down so brought it to a truck place for alignment. Yet, in a hard turn the tires would seem like they were grabbing and scuffing still. So, today I just discovered the steering stops had been completely removed, obviously to help the turn radius. Mechanic thinks this is the prob with the tire wear. Only 25K,and the outsides are down to the tread wear indicator lines. We were planning on welding stops back on! After reading your posts I'm not sure. I don't want to be replacing tires every 25K though. Anyone without steering stops having this type of tire wear?

BTW your trucks are awesome! Gonna have to work on my Tacoma next.

 

Any long term updates? I have a fabtech lift on my DCLB and turning is horrendous.

 

If you trim the stops,you will get bad tire rubbing and tire wear.

 

Do you have experience? I need to know from someone who has done this.

 

If worried about tire wear leave the truck stock for best results. But I can’t see how shortening steering stops would effect tire wear unless the rubbing is the cause of the wear..

 

I’m not worried about tire wear. I’m worried about other components failing. Doors the OP have any long term feedback?

 

Gotcha, miss understood. The OP hasn’t logged in since 2015

 

Actually i was asking @ShOwStOpper since he also modded his to be shorter

 

But it looks like someone asked him on his profile and he said its safe down to 2 1/4"