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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)

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Looks like your big ass head keeps making your rig flop over.
3 flops so far? Or more before you caged it?

I would like to think I go hard and that's why I roll :flipoff: Nah that's it though, I didn't drive it at all before I started caging it. The tip over at hammers is arguably a "rollover" since it did a full 270deg before stopping, but according to my girlfriend that doesn't count. I was also gonna post the pictures of when I cartwheeled the 40 series at 50mph and when I flopped the 4runner, but that was too annoying to find those pictures :noidea:
 
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This was all discovered after 1 trip

Panhard Correction made from 1/8" lasted a surprising amount of time before snap
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Fixed
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Rear Bumper sheared at the weld
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Welded
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Plate it
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Grind smooth
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Rear Tire Carrier
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Weld and add gussets
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3 1/4" gussets
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No issues since
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I 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 :eek:
 
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I 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 :eek:
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
 

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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
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.
 

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7C9025D9-FEFA-447B-962D-0FC4B9A07DBA.jpeg C441907A-AFDF-4D14-83D9-80099D1A69C0.jpeg C818F211-E64F-46E0-B7AF-20D001AF16B5.jpeg 1CC60CEF-2F22-48DA-BB58-3DC8E8A56294.jpeg Last off-roading event I went too was the first time my truck had ever been to an organized offroad event. The first day was a 20 mile long loop, broke an ABS wire on the first turn, muffler came loose from the cat back at mile 3 (ratchet strapped it to the frame to finish) then made it 17 miles until my spare tire came loose on the last jump coming into pits.

The second day was 2.5 mile time trials. My day ended after 5 laps or so due to a leaking diff, I sent it to ECGS for a Detroit locker and 5.29 (coming in tomorrow). When I got home I realized I had bent an alignment tab. So I got Total Chaos cam tab and shock tower gussets burned on one side. Going to do the other side and diff this weekend
 
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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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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.)
 
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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.)

upper mount pivot as in where the UCA pivots?

These are unmodified stock buckets.

Front suspension work ive done has been 2.5 coilovers and uniball UCAs. I see no reason how this would be any different than stock.
 

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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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@AssBurns I'm surprised this is how your buckets looked after the little run we did in your truck. hahahaha
 
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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.)

Assuming you're talking about the top hat adapter thing for the coilover, how would that not being perpendicular to the frame cause different stresses when it's a pinned connection?
 

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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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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.

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@AssBurns I'm surprised this is how your buckets looked after the little run we did in your truck. hahahaha
I've already done this, and have plated the shock towers to keep it from happening again. :thumbsup:
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Are you talking about how the shock upper mount is clocked in comparison to the frame or how the coil bucket is broken?
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?
 
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