What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Initial thought on the @TOTAL CHAOS Lower ball joints.

The alignment sleeves have too much powder coat on them for them to easily fit in to the spindle.

A special socket needed to install them? (top of Ball Joint)

I guess I can look past the boojie bolt for clearance purposes... but for a grand, I'd expect the sleeves to sit in the spindle correctly. (those are the biggest source of LBJ failure after all)

Am I being picky? Maybe. But those are my initial thoughts.

 

Looks like you have to add raptor lights now that you're over 80in wide according to the DOT

 

LOL... I've had Raptor lights since 2019 Mr FBI man.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...lt-for-tall-curbs.523955/page-8#post-20312767

 

More thoughts on the LBJs.

About 1/8 inch of slop between at the tie rod connection to the misalignment spacer (using normal off the shelf spacers)

To be fair... (to them) They say on their site that if using someone else's steering linkage a TC specific spacer set may be needed.

To be fair... (to me) I called and told them I would be using other misalignment because I'd be fabricating my links. They had no idea of any special "TC specific" misalignment spacers and told me off the shelf misalignment will work.

So... we'll be rocking a stainless washer on top and bottom of the misalignment to take up the slack.

Again... for a grand... I expect more.

 

well I guess with the LT now that make you road legal

 

I did. Picked up some

$23 dorman 610-463 rear M12-1.50 serrated wheel stud - 14.20mm knurl, 55mm length compatible with select pontiac / toyota models, 10 pack

dorman 610-463 studs of Summit Racing. They're 15mm longer than stock.

 

What's size hiem and width misalignment spacers are you running? Mine fit just fine and I bought all my stuff off Kartek.

 

Greased all my zerks. Heavy diesel column lifts help a lot haha.



probably should put the skids back but who’s keeping track anyway

 

Holy shit, he still has it??

 

I see you have a Langmuire Plasma Table also. Nice! Pro or regular?

 

Thank you, great job on your aux battery setup.

 

I probably ate 10000 calories today.

full Hawaiian spread for breakfast. Kalua pig, fried tuna, ahi poke, pipikaula short ribs, Mac salad, rice.

for lunch I had a loco moco and a huge slice of cake.

just went out for beers and all you can eat Korean bbq.

I’m gonna die like Elvis did in the middle of the night

 

I think you are lost lol.

 

My truck? Yeah, just been busy with other things.

 

7/8 x 7/8 heim kit with 5/8 misalignment spacers, from Ruff Stuff.

I'd say their misalignments are pretty dead nuts at 2 inch.




The distance on the ball joint to the double shear bracket is 2.147

2.147 is somewhere between 2 1/8, and 2 5/32. That's not a legitimate measurement. Common increments on misalignments is going to be closer to 1/4s than in 1/8s. No one has 2 5/32 misalignments. What that measurement is, is what happens when you don't have your stuff tight in your jig when you weld it.

But the main point about this is, their site says specifically, that TC specific misalaignments may be neccesary... which is fair enough. But when you call them, no one knows what those "specific" misalignments are, they don't have them available, and they tell you that you don't need them.

 

That's Nelson's @Kwikvette plasma table. I don't know any of the specs. I just know it makes magic shit happen lol.

 

150thou should be easy enough to take up with a washer or since the double sheer bracket is made out of thin steel tighten the fuck out of the bolt until it becomes 2" haha

 

Ya, I'm going to split the difference and take it up with a stainless washer on top of and below the misalignments.

I didn't measure the double shear plate, but it's at least 3/16 (possibly 1/4) (not at home to look at it close right now). I could just squish it in a vice and take it down to 2 inch. But I think it's better overall to just leave it and spacer it rather than putting a bunch of force on the double shear plate.

Again... maybe I'm just being picky, but I just have to say again, that I would expect better.

 

Fair to be picky, think it just wandered a bit from the weld process?

I'm pretty stoked to see new stuff still being developed for the first gen given it's age at this point.