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Some images from Speed Metal a few weeks ago. The first time out in the morning I was being a sissy and didn't think I would be jumping any of the jumps, but when I came back to out booth I got a ration of shit from everyone for not jumping. I explained that this is my daily driver, and that I...

Also a side note, I don't know what hubs Mike used, but if you want to make the truck a little narrower you can use Toyota straight axle front hubs on the IFS knuckles and I think its like 3/4" to an inch narrower per side. Another side note, the 2-bolt pattern for the caliper on those...

Right on, Mike must have welded that at some point. If there aren't any cracks then you're good to go. We have those same spindles on our race truck at the shop (I mean the same base knuckle 86-94 4X4) and I've never seen a snout break off, just seen cracks that get welded up and are perfectly...

I did a few off-road trips with Mike in my first few years at Total Chaos. I raced with him in Primm a couple times too in that truck. Mike is one of the original Locos Mocos guys who would go to Mexico and set up pits to fix people‘s shit for free. I always loved that mentality and if anyone...

That's hilarious! I guess I'm not getting dementia any time soon.

It started with my truck when it was stock width. The outer joints on the Tacoma and Tundra are the same joint so we had summer brothers machine a set of stock width axle shafts that are Tacoma/4-Runner length but use the Tundra inner CV joint. Then when we did the Military job we had them make...

I also made the custom Upper arms with the 1.5" uniballs but I don't remember the year I made those (its probably stamped in the rear upper arm pivot gusset, along with possibly a note for Mike if I remember correctly). The one thing to keep an eye on with those knuckles is that you need to...

I welded some of the "A" pillar tubes to the frame in 2007 in Mikes garage. It was I think the 3rd truck to have the Gen 3 kit, first was Helton, second was Metcho (just after I started at Total Chaos) and we installed in on a trailer in his parents driveway.

I would not use anything other than the factory upper arm bolts in my opinion. They are incredibly strong so I would imagine something went wrong in terms of bum stops etc. You can always do the double shear tabs for the upper arms as well that helps with that. We have done some 3rd gen...

I'm obviously biased, but While the conversion is expensive, its not cheap to make at all. What I always tell people is what Eliot said. If you break a LBJ then you are going to have a much more extensive and expensive list of things to fix: knuckle, fender, upper arm/joint, axle (if its a 4x4)...

Sorry for the delay, but yes I think with a good tuned coilover and bypass you can get almost anything to work really well. The other thing I have that helped get more wheel travel is that I converted to the Tundra inner CV joint which allowed for I think an inch more droop travel.

And actually, I take that back about how old the kit is. As I look closer, it does have a total chaos spec uniball cup

Really cool build! That is a VERY OLD TC kit. Not that anyone cares but I can tell by the upper arm uniball cup. I would guess this kit is circa 2002-2005 because it has Kar Tek uniball cups which we used to use before having the machine shop across the parking lot make us our own uniball cups...

Bolt on everything https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/threads/the-sleeping-taco.593/

Electric sway bar mount