Currently I have a '99 Tacoma "mini" (not the prerunner or 4x4) with the Camburg uppers and lowers. I want to find out if there will be any ill affects a fabtech 3" spindle will have on the kit. I was thinking it would give the Camburg kit a few extra inches of wheel travel but I didn't know what it would do to the geometry or if it would affect it at all. If Jerry reads this I wonder if he has thought about this or even tested this...any help would be great!
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What are the affects of lift spindals??
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TDORSloppy
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I put the fabtech spindles on my fiance's truck with the Camburg kit and they work awesome! The truck needed wheel spacers in the front before because of the airbumps but the fabtech spindles kicked the tires out an extra 1.5" per side! Now we have clearance for 33s (going on this afternoon) and no more wheel spacers in the front. I jumped this small dip by my house and it feels smoother now that there's more leverage. I don't have wheel travel figures yet but I will this weekend hopefully. Here's a pic of what it looks like
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John Bitting
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You will not get anymore travel out of the camburg kit, you might get more uptravel then before if your wheel was hitting on the fender well. I dont see why you cant run lift spindles with it, I ran them on my CST kit on my chevy.
Yeah, all they should be doing to a lift spindle if you're not incorporating the spindle with a complete custom system is moving the snout or spindle spud down whatever their claimed lift height is. I guess in some cases if the factory geometery is all screwed (new Dodge rams for instance, camber change comparable to I-Beams from the factory!!!) they may move upper and lower positions to try and improve it...
TDORSloppy
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Khris and Jedi Fatkid are right, the snout is just moved. The spindles cost $360 at Kartek and I know they have them in stock. http://www.kartek.com/products/truck/spindles/spindles.htm
So I guess you might get a few more inches of up-travel as John said. I guess a balljoint spacer is the way to go in order to get extra travel with the stock balljoints.
TDORSloppy, do you know if there are better balljoints for the mini? The stockers hardly move, and I get about 9"-10" of travel.
TDORSloppy, do you know if there are better balljoints for the mini? The stockers hardly move, and I get about 9"-10" of travel.
Jerry Zaiden
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I have never tried these spindles. The stock spindles are forged and the Fabtech spindles are Cast. The Fabtech uprights are alot thicker and use a press in spindle.
As for the truck using the airbump off the upper arm, I do not recomend that with such a small upper ball joint. How have your ball joints held up?
As for the truck using the airbump off the upper arm, I do not recomend that with such a small upper ball joint. How have your ball joints held up?
TDORSloppy
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The balljoints on the 5 lug mini suck ass! They are sloppy, sloppier than me! I just changed them and they still suck. When I have some funds in the bank, the next project is getting some new uppers with uniballs and eliminating the cross shafts. To be honest, the Tacoma 5 lug mini is almost as bad for off-roading as a S-10. It's definately not designed for off-road. I do however like the rack and pinion steering and the air bumps really help.
TDORSloppy
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If I could do it in the CNC shop here at Kartek, I might make them out of Billet Aluminum. I'll tell you if I do it or not.