Show me your mid travel setups!

Work in progress....a fair amount to work out.

 

Decent setup.

 

Very nice - did you do anything to your bump stops? I don't think many do, But a collapsed King 2.5 on mine would be the stop by about 1/4". Who makes those UCAs?

 

@alb1k how do you like those methods?

 

Love them. I think they are the perfect balance of style and simplicity. Also weigh 3-4 pounds less than stock 17's.

I went from stock 17x7.5 15mm offset to 17x8.5 0 offset. perfect stance on Gen 1 DC

 

Did you flip the U-bolts with Archive and weld the spindle gussets with TC? Probably wrong, but throwing it out there.

 

Correct on both. Spindles gussets are probably overkill but oh well.

 

No such thing.

 

Agreed.

 

when you got the Deaver leaf's did you need to buy a new shackle for it. Because the one they offer says you need a new shackle, and they don't even sell it.

 

If you get spring under you need shackles (total chaos makes them). If you get spring over like his, shackles not required.

 

damn all they offer is the spring under
https://deaverspring.com/product/tundra-2wd-4wd-1999-2006-10-leaf-spring-1-inch-lift-rear/
not sure if you can answer this but hopefully someone can. is it Deaver or another company that mainly offers custom leaf packs?

 

Deaver and Alcan

 

Thanks. What are you running sunnier? I see you dishin the wisdom but I don't see any see anything about what u run?

 

Lol, I don’t know anything I didn’t learn from members on this forum.

I kinda hate pointing you to my build thread because I’ll for sure take st from a dozen people about my failure to update it.

But it has the answers for all the important initial build question, I.e. long travel suspension Total Chaos and King suspension and MCM’s under-bed cantilever in back over Deaver HD springs:
https://www.tundras.com/threads/lon...ld-papasmurf-sunnier-build-a-first-gen.44398/

 

She might have the best suspension setup out of any first gen here.

 

This is TRUE.

I should said, I haven’t posted on this thread because it’s a ‘mid travel’ thread.

 

Show off!!

 

Thats right! You don't know nuthin 'bout that mid-travel life Sunnier! Were pulling 9" of travel here but I round up to 10" don't make me pull my bumpstops!

 

It's all relative. Compared to a 2wd a arm set-up, anything below 14" or so is "mid travel". It depends who you ask. I call my 15"+ travel Ranger long travel and my 12" about Tundra long travel. In reality the tundra is more mid travel, but I tried to keep the joints and CVs happy and wasn't going for a number.

 

“DO it!”

 

I will! I just need to find my Allen wrench...
my garage eats little tools

 

I should probably find the thread where you’ve been talking about doing this. I don’t actually what you to pull your bump stops. Maybe shave them….

 

The term mid-travel has always bothered me. There isn't a significant gain in travel, at least for first gens, when you throw on upper arms and coilovers. Mid travel is really just changing what part of the cycle your suspension is at during static ride height. You're no longer near full compression, you're about halfway through your droop. Whether you have more travel than stock or not doesn't really apply.

I believe 2nd gen Tundras have 12" stock, meanwhile most long travel first gen kits give 13". A few do 14" just to grab sales, a smaller few do 18". Meanwhile the cRaptor does 13" if I'm not mistaken. It does become subjective from truck model to truck model.

I gotta stop typing and find my Allen, spitting out these numbers makes me feel short on inches and that's a terrible feeling.

 

I’d tell you not to worry about it, it’s how you use it. But….

 

I'm always bottoming out

 

Oh, my, I walked right into this.

 

Its my superbumps I swear!

 

I've seen it in person and I can 100% confirm this is factual.

 

A lot depends on the vehicle and how it's tuned also. Camburg used to race a ranger with links in the rear and who knows what number in travel, but I'm sure mid 20s and then a factory lower arm with their upper and spindle.

I'm going off memory on the specs, but it may have only had 10-12" up front. According to them it was the tuning and the rear travel that made the truck fast. I don't recall any mention of comfortable or smooth, but fast. Point is that if you can keep in the seat, keep traction, and hold the vehicle together... It's all relative.

One day... I wouldn't mind trying to make a fabricated spindle with d44 hubs to gain more travel while keeping the angles all within check. Sort of what solo does. You could also drop the diff for better shaft angles on droop and make the spindle taller to chill out the camber curve a little. It's an idea for now.