The Little Blue Truck

Jody Treadway said:
Sent Mike these pics yesterday. My 3 link, full hydro, single ended setup has been trouble free and the steering response/effort is perfect. So much that I'm keeping the exact same setup on the new build (ram, mount, tie rod, etc).
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Yep, mine is a LOT busier!
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Shreddinlettuce said:
Honestly at that point I’d just get a Saginaw box so you have more pitman arm options, but thats more time/work to locate a box and mess with a steering linkage that’s already there. With frame plates he doesn’t even have to worry about squaring up tubes as simple as it may be it takes time and effort and can result in unintended consequences (read cobwebs)
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I looked into that on mine, and the radiator gets in the way if you get an inside the frame rail Saginaw box, and the outside the frame rail ones are apparently made of platinum. Plus then there would be heep parts on the truck and we can't have that.

I also get wanting a quick turnaround, i hate fabricating with a passion and love wheeling, just throwing out some options that will save some time in the future. I like that it's staying a leaf spring build as well!
 
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gslander said:
I looked into that on mine, and the radiator gets in the way if you get an inside the frame rail Saginaw box, and the outside the frame rail ones are apparently made of platinum. Plus then there would be heep parts on the truck and we can't have that.

I also get wanting a quick turnaround, i hate fabricating with a passion and love wheeling, just throwing out some options that will save some time in the future. I like that it's staying a leaf spring build as well!
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the c/k truck boxes work fine and readily available cheap
 
I think you drive the truck on the road a good bit now? Are you wanting to keep that ability after the ton swap? If so, keeping a steering box will help for sure. You can do double ended ram assist, but it will be slow or expensive to put together. A single ended ram will be better for assist.
 
Mostly just acros
paradisePWoffrd said:
I think you drive the truck on the road a good bit now? Are you wanting to keep that ability after the ton swap? If so, keeping a steering box will help for sure. You can do double ended ram assist, but it will be slow or expensive to put together. A single ended ram will be better for assist.
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Mostly just across town and hit 35-45. It is fun to take the boy to baseball practice, the the grocery store or scare the crap out of tourists.
 
The biggest issue I was having keeping leaves was not being able to source a long enough pitman arm to work with the 48 spline Toyota ifs box. Not wanting to chop up two arms and weld them together (I saw that as a waste of money 🤣). This all stemmed from wanting to run a keyed knuckle. If I had just ordered the whole menu off Sky Off-road things would be significantly easier (and cheaper). But after a couple weeks of no reply to emails by them (and not listing a phone number) I decided all of my business they get is full width Toyota brake lines.

Soooo… As of today this crap has snowballed into an avalanche and I’ve got a PSC single ended full hydro kit in the mail. A buddy proposed a deal and will be installing a three link hopefully sometime soon.

The plan has changed several times since this fiasco began and I guess by happenstance and impulse it’s getting narrowed down for better or for worse.
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
I’ll make sure to case your crib so I can pirate the next shipment 🏴‍☠️
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This is one of the bigger ones that I don’t want to purchase again, so you can’t set me back but so much. I will prevail!
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
Exactly, a shot of nitrous aughta do it!

I think duder gots the belted snail going on
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Def gots the whine. A buddy got a used TRD unit a few years back for 300 and I hate him because of it.

The TRD offering didn’t push much but the readily available and still produced LC Engineering offering does.
 
frankenyoter said:
Def gots the whine. A buddy got a used TRD unit a few years back for 300 and I hate him because of it.

The TRD offering didn’t push much but the readily available and still produced LC Engineering offering does.
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It cracks me up the Tacoma guys paying big $$$ for those 3.4 superchargers that barely got the 3.4 up to a stock ls power. Just V8 swap it for less lol
 
gslander said:
It cracks me up the Tacoma guys paying big $$$ for those 3.4 superchargers that barely got the 3.4 up to a stock ls power. Just V8 swap it for less lol
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Better power, yes but I highly doubt it would be less coin by the time it’s all over. Probably twice the cost more likely.

4k and a Saturday swapping it out and the 3.4 would be making fun sounds with zero additional modifications required.
 
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