motoxscott
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With all the posts I've seen on here, I'm sure someone can help me out.
I'm building the rear of a Tacoma right now and I wanted to run my idea past you. First I'll tell you what we're planning on doing. We'll be installing 62" deaver leaf springs and using (1) 18" 2.5 triple bypass shocks per wheel. We're ditching the bed for fiberglass bedsides and will be caging the entire rear, but still leaving the frame with 1-3/4" tubing throughout.
Now comes the hard part, unlike the ford ranger the tacoma has the leaf springs directly below the frame, not to the outside. I'd like to locate the shock directly over the spring, but the frame is in its path. If I mount it inside the frame, it seems like it would be too close to the trucks center line to work to it's full potential. My thoughts were to alter the routing of the frame to give me the clearance to mount the shocks right over the springs.
I'm planning on using 2" x 4" x 0.120" rectangle tubing to match the size of the stock frame and to tie & gusset it to the surrounding frame and cage work.
Here's a birds eye view of what I was thinking. Bare with me I used illustrator to do this, not a CAD program. (see attached picture)
Any and all input would be great, the worst thing I'd hate to see is to go take this thing out the first time and have something fail.
Thanks in advance !
-Scott
I'm building the rear of a Tacoma right now and I wanted to run my idea past you. First I'll tell you what we're planning on doing. We'll be installing 62" deaver leaf springs and using (1) 18" 2.5 triple bypass shocks per wheel. We're ditching the bed for fiberglass bedsides and will be caging the entire rear, but still leaving the frame with 1-3/4" tubing throughout.
Now comes the hard part, unlike the ford ranger the tacoma has the leaf springs directly below the frame, not to the outside. I'd like to locate the shock directly over the spring, but the frame is in its path. If I mount it inside the frame, it seems like it would be too close to the trucks center line to work to it's full potential. My thoughts were to alter the routing of the frame to give me the clearance to mount the shocks right over the springs.
I'm planning on using 2" x 4" x 0.120" rectangle tubing to match the size of the stock frame and to tie & gusset it to the surrounding frame and cage work.
Here's a birds eye view of what I was thinking. Bare with me I used illustrator to do this, not a CAD program. (see attached picture)
Any and all input would be great, the worst thing I'd hate to see is to go take this thing out the first time and have something fail.
Thanks in advance !
-Scott