Looks like your big ass head keeps making your rig flop over.Idk if I would call this carnage, but made for decent pictures considering I only had my $40 walmart phone's camera (minus the last picture which was taken from the TH stream)
Looks like your big ass head keeps making your rig flop over.
3 flops so far? Or more before you caged it?
Ya I think savage made a design update after I sent him pics. I'm sure I'll talk to him at KOH with him being a sponsor of racetruckI still can’t believe that the tire carrier plate was just one tube holding it all on. It definitely needed those gussets from the manufacturer. Lucky it didn’t fall off on you on the highway
Speaking of racetruck, you never posted in the Race Team thread. We want to compile all of our racers and teams into that thread so we know who to look for when races happen.Ya I think savage made a design update after I sent him pics. I'm sure I'll talk to him at KOH with him being a sponsor of racetruck
I get busy. I think Toby didSpeaking of racetruck, you never posted in the Race Team thread. We want to compile all of our racers and teams into that thread so we know who to look for when races happen.
Apparently this is what happens to a hair line fractured bucket after a weekend of pounding on it. Had my front tires off the ground more than a handful of times this past weekend and too many steep off camber washout ruts that I probably hit too fast to name.
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Is your upper mount pivot perpendicular to the frame? It looks angled in that photo - that would stress the tower also.
I've got a reinforcement kit for that if you want to save some time - and it has both the taco and 4Runner bolt patterns in it (for pivot alignment.)
Apparently this is what happens to a hair line fractured bucket after a weekend of pounding on it. Had my front tires off the ground more than a handful of times this past weekend and too many steep off camber washout ruts that I probably hit too fast to name.
I noticed it while airing up on sunday afternoon.
In the 250 mile drive home it didnt change one bit.
Dont worry gents.
I picked up a 20" long piece of frame rail from my buddies salvage yard for $50 and cut the good condition bucket out of it last night so it will be ready to weld on this weekend after I cut the broken shit off my frame rail.
What I've concluded/confuses me is my passenger side looks 100%. Which leads me to think there was an imperfection in the manufacturing process of the metal on this driver side coil bucket or I'm REAALLLY driver side biased when it comes to smashing an obstacle.
I'd never really thought of hitting an obstacle and being biased to one side or another until a phone call to @snivilous and he mentioned it.
Either way, we'll be good as new after this weekend and probably get a fresh alignment on monday.
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upper mount pivot as in where the UCA pivots?
Is your upper mount pivot perpendicular to the frame? It looks angled in that photo - that would stress the tower also.
I've got a reinforcement kit for that if you want to save some time - and it has both the taco and 4Runner bolt patterns in it (for pivot alignment.)
Yeah been there before. @eimkeith makes a pretty sweet plate to fix that weak point, as well as correct the clocked angle of your coilovers.Apparently this is what happens to a hair line fractured bucket after a weekend of pounding on it. Had my front tires off the ground more than a handful of times this past weekend and too many steep off camber washout ruts that I probably hit too fast to name.
I noticed it while airing up on sunday afternoon.
In the 250 mile drive home it didnt change one bit.
Dont worry gents.
I picked up a 20" long piece of frame rail from my buddies salvage yard for $50 and cut the good condition bucket out of it last night so it will be ready to weld on this weekend after I cut the broken shit off my frame rail.
What I've concluded/confuses me is my passenger side looks 100%. Which leads me to think there was an imperfection in the manufacturing process of the metal on this driver side coil bucket or I'm REAALLLY driver side biased when it comes to smashing an obstacle.
I'd never really thought of hitting an obstacle and being biased to one side or another until a phone call to @snivilous and he mentioned it.
Either way, we'll be good as new after this weekend and probably get a fresh alignment on monday.
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I've already done this, and have plated the shock towers to keep it from happening again.@AssBurns I'm surprised this is how your buckets looked after the little run we did in your truck. hahahaha
Yeah how the coilover is rotated a few degrees. See on the plate that @eimkeith makes, how it already has the pre-drilled holes for the Tacoma orientation?Are you talking about how the shock upper mount is clocked in comparison to the frame or how the coil bucket is broken?