*Rickashay's 04' Tundra* - A build of Compromises
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WillBeck
Adventurer
Sorry if i missed it, but what length are the original springs for the Fox coilovers?
I was under the impression that the first gen Tundra's used the same or very similar shock as the 95-04 Taco's.
I talked to King about running a longer spring to keep my spring rate, but increase ride height without crazy pre-load, and they told me not to do it.
The Kings i have come with a 14" spring, vs 13" on Icon and Fox.
I was under the impression that the first gen Tundra's used the same or very similar shock as the 95-04 Taco's.
I talked to King about running a longer spring to keep my spring rate, but increase ride height without crazy pre-load, and they told me not to do it.
The Kings i have come with a 14" spring, vs 13" on Icon and Fox.
toyotech
Expedition Leader
WillBeck
Adventurer
Ah, sounds like Fox uses a unique first gen Tundra setup. I think King uses an almost identical coilover.
What length travel are they? My Kings are like 4.5"ish
kootenay
Intergalacticsuperintendent
He lives a few blocks away from me in Kimberley. Haven't convinced him to come wheeling yet.
Jb1rd
Explorer
Jonathan Ward is a freaking wizard!!! www.icon4x4.com
On the way home, we swung through Invermere to have a swim in the lake. Couldn't help but drool over this FINE specimen.
IMG_7270.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr[/QUOTE]
On the way home, we swung through Invermere to have a swim in the lake. Couldn't help but drool over this FINE specimen.
IMG_7270.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr[/QUOTE]
toyotech
Expedition Leader
Spring travel or coilover travel?
I was looking at kings but the 14" spring seems to be an old design and 16" will become more common.
WillBeck
Adventurer
Shock travel.
seanpistol
Explorer
I believe the Fox's are 5.39" of shaft travel.
rickashay
Explorer
UPDATE
Received my 6" Archive Garage Shackles last week and got around to installing them tonight. Fairly straight forward putting them in, especially after doing the SFK install. Took me 2 hours and half of that was messing around with some fender trim for my cut bedsides and I removed the shocks so I could measure the before/after difference in droop with the shocks taken out of the equation.
Top of rim to fender edge (before): 14-5/8"
Top of rim to fender edge (after): 15-5/8"
This measurement will come down some as I have not yet driven the truck to get the rear leafs settled again. I expect to be around 0.75" taller with the 6" shackles than the factory 4" ones.
Droop:
Top of bumpstop to strike plate with shocks removed and leafs fully extended (before): 7-1/2"
IMG_7274.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Top of bumpstop to strike plate with shocks removed and leafs fully extended (after): 9-3/4"
IMG_7275.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Droop gain (without rear shocks): 2-1/4"
With the Fox 10" shocks I will say that it doesn't get much better in terms of useable travel.
- I have factory bumpstops that sit 1/2" higher than stock due to the thickness of my U-bolt flip kit that my factory bumpstops are welded to.
- The 10" Fox's bolt right in place of the factory shocks
- With the leafs at full droop I had to compress the Fox's literally less than 1/2" to get them to pop back into their lower mounting holes. That means the shocks have more extension than the leafs by a very small amount (which is how it should be so the shocks to not act as limiting straps for the axle). I am basically getting just under 10" of travel measured at the bumpstop
- Travel measured at the wheel will be significantly larger than the travel measured at the bumpstop due to the increase in lever arm length. Will need to find a good ramp to measure travel at the wheel now.
VERY impressed with Eric's shackles and SFK as a whole package. Excellent attention to detail in the shackles with the little stainless Archive Garage emblem too! Still need to log some hours with the new shackles but the travel numbers alone have me sold and the truck is sitting exactly where I want in terms of rear height.
Shackle angle at full droop ( I expect to squeeze a little more out of it once it's on a ramp and not just drooped out in the garage):
IMG_7276.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Received my 6" Archive Garage Shackles last week and got around to installing them tonight. Fairly straight forward putting them in, especially after doing the SFK install. Took me 2 hours and half of that was messing around with some fender trim for my cut bedsides and I removed the shocks so I could measure the before/after difference in droop with the shocks taken out of the equation.
Top of rim to fender edge (before): 14-5/8"
Top of rim to fender edge (after): 15-5/8"
This measurement will come down some as I have not yet driven the truck to get the rear leafs settled again. I expect to be around 0.75" taller with the 6" shackles than the factory 4" ones.
Droop:
Top of bumpstop to strike plate with shocks removed and leafs fully extended (before): 7-1/2"
IMG_7274.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Top of bumpstop to strike plate with shocks removed and leafs fully extended (after): 9-3/4"
IMG_7275.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Droop gain (without rear shocks): 2-1/4"
With the Fox 10" shocks I will say that it doesn't get much better in terms of useable travel.
- I have factory bumpstops that sit 1/2" higher than stock due to the thickness of my U-bolt flip kit that my factory bumpstops are welded to.
- The 10" Fox's bolt right in place of the factory shocks
- With the leafs at full droop I had to compress the Fox's literally less than 1/2" to get them to pop back into their lower mounting holes. That means the shocks have more extension than the leafs by a very small amount (which is how it should be so the shocks to not act as limiting straps for the axle). I am basically getting just under 10" of travel measured at the bumpstop
- Travel measured at the wheel will be significantly larger than the travel measured at the bumpstop due to the increase in lever arm length. Will need to find a good ramp to measure travel at the wheel now.
VERY impressed with Eric's shackles and SFK as a whole package. Excellent attention to detail in the shackles with the little stainless Archive Garage emblem too! Still need to log some hours with the new shackles but the travel numbers alone have me sold and the truck is sitting exactly where I want in terms of rear height.
Shackle angle at full droop ( I expect to squeeze a little more out of it once it's on a ramp and not just drooped out in the garage):
IMG_7276.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
rickashay
Explorer
UPDATE
BOOM
IMG_7288.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
IMG_7281.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
IMG_7283.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Pretty happy with the outcome. Still might put the license plate on a piano hinge over the hitch but I dunno... Also got the rear Rally Armor mud flaps installed. Might tuck them up a little higher but I'll need to look at it as-is for a few days to decide.
Damn I need a front bumper.
BOOM
IMG_7288.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
IMG_7281.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
IMG_7283.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
Pretty happy with the outcome. Still might put the license plate on a piano hinge over the hitch but I dunno... Also got the rear Rally Armor mud flaps installed. Might tuck them up a little higher but I'll need to look at it as-is for a few days to decide.
Damn I need a front bumper.
theBullfrog125
Adventurer
Ya you do!
That bumper looks sick. It ties in well with the bed rack.
Damn I need a rear bumper! LOL
Edit: are you considering adding a swing out?
Adventurous
Explorer
UPDATEShackle angle at full droop ( I expect to squeeze a little more out of it once it's on a ramp and not just drooped out in the garage):
IMG_7276.jpg by Addison Rickaby, on Flickr
The picture makes it look like any additional rotation and you will send the shackle into the mount. Perhaps the angle the picture is taken from is deceiving?