Ramblings about air shocks - Page 3

tc · 03-21-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay351

So are you just mashing the keyboard with your palms hoping to hit the right keys? Cmon, I can't even understand what you are saying...

Isn't the saying something like "give 100 monkeys typewriters and eventually they will hammer out the works of Shakespeare"? Maybe toynado is one monkey with 100 typewriters ...

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tc · 03-21-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by toynado

Quote:

Originally Posted by toynado

then how much is it, tc ?

as if u know

So, it's about 2" from the bottom of the balljoint to the rim, and, with my 33's about 8.5" from the bottom of the balljoint to the ground ... soooo, I would estimate about 3" of compression travel.

Junkers88 · 03-21-2009, 05:58 PM

**DeathCougar** · 03-21-2009, 06:21 PM

He will be dealt with accordingly

**waskillywabbit** · 03-21-2009, 06:51 PM

Here is the junk I removed from the other thread that was irrelevant to the OPs question.

**waskillywabbit** · 03-21-2009, 06:55 PM

Ramble away.

**DeathCougar** · 03-22-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by space-junk

on a side note...
hmm... wonder where DC is?? is he off polishing his BH???

DC was busy at the race track, then going to a Rhonda Vincent show.

This guy is clearly a troll, likely a previous banned member who is here causing drama. But, his poor typing skills and nonsense postings are not grounds for banning. If we don't repspond, he won't post.

That being said, i want to touch on the air shocks. You cannot support the entire front end of the truck purely on those style air shocks. They are rated at 1100lbs MAX load. The front of of a 4runner weighs well over 1100 lbs, so the air shocks would just blow out leaving you riding on the bump stops. Besides practically laying frame, this would give you no useable suspension flex, since the wheel would not want to push back. The truck would just flop around on off road situations.

In his picture, he does indeed have airshocks in the front of his 4runner. But with the broken torsion bar, you can see how badly it is sagging to the right. Sure, the stock suspension could have 12" of travel. Without anything impeding the movement of the control arms like the FRAME, or the BODY. Stock suspension simply cannot have 12" of usable suspension travel, just on shocks. And once you have a 4" trailmaster lift or whatever you think you have, its not stock suspension anymore.

Toyvana · 03-24-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by toynado

spelling flames?
esp. by someone who can't spell out "at"
gawd

slp punk, duz yor donohue set up use the stock frame mounting points?
cuz if so, you just PROVED my travel is as stated

here's the equation
it's almost 20" from LCA pivot to wheel on my stock trailmaster 4" lift
you hav 3" longer distance i assume from yor post
and 14" travel
x/20=14/23
it's directly proportional
x being my travel
solve for x
ALMOST A FOOT OF TRAVEL
or more...

nowhere did i say i hav 12" of travel ...
if the naysayers, none of which i see offering any proof for thier claims, can't read, maybe they should lurn

someone thinks i'll go make a movie of my travel for em
to solve r00bish arguments on a bbs?
gawd

or else my experience is not reality or 'proven'
gawd

someone can't see my airshox in the pic?
gawd

i've heard plenty of peeps call tie rods track rods
but someone selling airshox apparently has never...
and i'm the 16 year old?
gawd

too bad my first post turned this board into just another joke of an offroad bbs for me

i haven't even shaved the top bumstop, there is certainly more travel available to me

and if the donohue kit is only 1 1/2" longer on one side,
that means i have MORE TRAVEL in the equation, not less

You obviously do not wheel or hang out with people who take off-roading seriously. If so, you would not have come on here asking questions that someone in the real world could have helped you with.

Do us a favor and embarrass yourself somewhere else.

the 38 special · 03-25-2009, 08:41 AM

With the exception of the person who will never pass a 2nd grade spelling test there is a lot of neat 'yammering' going on here..
I do think that though I may be out of place to say, being such a new member and all, that you guys should have given up a long time ago and spent your energy adding to the already great list of Tech WriteUps. Maybe a "why your flex claim is BS" writeup? Or something that the members of yotatech.com who possess two brain cells to rub together (don't steal my line now!) can benefit from rather than arguing with someone that even the homeless guy who lives under the bridge down the road wouldn't listen to.

Yes toynado I did imply that I do not think you have two brain cells to rub together. Quit huffing paint or whatever you have been doing, though it may be too late to save the braincells you have already killed, at least you could still get a job bagging groceries or cleaning porto-poties.

Did that come off as mean spirited?

Oh well, now he will probably throw his claims at me and ask if I can "match" his unproven claims. Even if they were proven, I can say with confidence that his truck if modified in the ways he claims is at best incapable of performing safely on public highways. I just hope I never am on the same road as that machine.

Toyvana · 03-25-2009, 09:07 AM

^^I like this guy^^ Welcome to YotaTech.

904_runner · 03-25-2009, 09:28 AM

removed

3w41d · 03-25-2009, 01:53 PM

wow

i love these threads

dannomite · 03-25-2009, 08:41 PM

Good times people. Good times.

Toyvana · 03-27-2009, 12:21 PM

Just like Jimmy "J.J." Walker!

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the 38 special Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Formerly Greater Seattle Area - Currently South Austin, Texas Posts: 26	With the exception of the person who will never pass a 2nd grade spelling test there is a lot of neat 'yammering' going on here.. I do think that though I may be out of place to say, being such a new member and all, that you guys should have given up a long time ago and spent your energy adding to the already great list of Tech WriteUps. Maybe a "why your flex claim is BS" writeup? Or something that the members of yotatech.com who possess two brain cells to rub together (don't steal my line now!) can benefit from rather than arguing with someone that even the homeless guy who lives under the bridge down the road wouldn't listen to. Yes toynado I did imply that I do not think you have two brain cells to rub together. Quit huffing paint or whatever you have been doing, though it may be too late to save the braincells you have already killed, at least you could still get a job bagging groceries or cleaning porto-poties. Did that come off as mean spirited? Oh well, now he will probably throw his claims at me and ask if I can "match" his unproven claims. Even if they were proven, I can say with confidence that his truck if modified in the ways he claims is at best incapable of performing safely on public highways. I just hope I never am on the same road as that machine.

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