LBJ Pr0n

Ok, who's gonna be the guinea pig....

https://solomotorsports.com/shop/pa...toyota-1-lower-uniball-heim-steering-upgrade/

 

I was looking at their manual hub spindles awhile back and this is required to install, definitely interesting. Their spindles delete ABS. I know of a truck that has this setup, but I haven't seen it in person.

I found someone local that'll convert my hubs to manual Aisin hubs without deleting ABS. 2-LO would be some fun.

 

I have these on my Tacoma (see my Tacoma build page). In order for the LBJ's to work they require the fully Fab'd spindle. The spindle is really nice and strong. It gives a 3" lift and I think you can run the stock shock or an adjustable coil over but it deletes the ABS.

If Solo can make a spindle that works with the ABS, I would buy it but they don't.


https://solomotorsports.com/shop/pa...oyota-parts/fully-fabricated-toyota-spindles/

 

I'm welling to sell my spindles if someone is interested. I want to upgrade to their Dana 44 spindles. Let me know and PM me.

On more thing about the spindles, you need to upgrade your upper control arm to one that has a uniball.

It's a snowball...

https://solomotorsports.com/shop/pa...nsion-toyota-parts/toyota-upper-control-arms/

 

That's what I very quickly realized when looking at the Solo stuff, especially for the 4WD DC's. Almost better off with a TC LT kit or something which will still be it's own snowball.

 

Yup, the mid travel kit is about 4K, it's really nice but just for a little more you can LT.

https://solomotorsports.com/shop/su...t-series-front-suspension-kit-1st-gen-tundra/

 

@Darkness and I were dwelling on the Solo stuff awhile back and they brought up a good point regarding ABS. If you're in an accident and an investigator discovers ABS has been intentionally deleted, that could be grounds for them to not cover you.

 

Exactly! Main reason not to do it. My Tundra is my daily and I need that ABS.

 

Yep, my Tundra is only driven for fun but I still need to use pavement to get places. It's a risk not worth taking.

 

Rolling the dice with my Tacoma.

 

I just looked through your build thread on it, looks like a beast! I'll keep watching for that linked rear

 

I really appreciate solomotorsports because they still make cool stuff for our trucks even without a big market. So many company’s don’t really put any r and d into 1st gens any more. Ive been eyeballing those lower uniball conversions and upgraded spindles for awhile. Only problem for me is the $$$. Would definitely be interested to see someone do this kit.

 

The price of mid travel compared to long travel carries a lot of extras that are often left out. Unless you are adding spindles, mid travel is way cheaper. That said, mid travel is nothing like long travel, its a terribly deceptive term for the method of lift.

A few good long travel kits I have looked at are in the ballpark of $3k for just the arms and minor bits, that doesn't count coilovers, bypasses, bumps, or reinforcement for the coil buckets. Add to that you need flared fenders (unless you like the chopped look), you're in the $8k zone quickly for the front end alone.

I like Solo, I went to their shop once to check them out and they were really nice people to chat with. I got to see some of the race trucks they were working on and the 18" travel kit that they were installing on an fgt. If I'm not mistaken they use Chevy hubs on their spindles, or at least they used them before on 2wd, and that may be why it wasn't feasible to keep abs.

 

I was relieved to find that this thread did not involve our 36th president.

 

Or Lady Bird Johnson.

 

When you do a spindle lift you lower the hub center in relation to the upper and lower control arm pivots. When you do a spindle drop you raise the hub center. I tried and couldn't easily get a uniball to fit on a modified ball joint bracket. You don't have much room to work with while still keeping front axles/cvs. Not impossible, but not easy with the stock spindle and stock axle shafts.

Edit: I couldn't get the uniball to work without raising the hub center and therefore making a drop spindles, and gaining up travel/losing down travel. Tundras already have a down travel disadvantage.

You're mileage my vary.