Good Idea or Bad Idea???

[Thurlo76]

so ive looked at these total chaos long arm travel kits all day "just drooling cuz im broke" but i saw that they replaced torsion bars for coil springs in most of them... is this a good idea to do a 4runner without long arm tavel arms??? anyone ever heard of it? seen it? think its stupid? any feed back would be awsome!!!

 

[Thurlo76]

i guess they would be coil over shocks not just coil springs.... sorry

 

[eighty64runner]

If you're "broke", please consider this guy's feedback from a thread entitled "Modifications that you regret":

MODIFICATIONS that you regret? - Page 2 - YotaTech Forums

On my old 2000 tacoma. I regret getting Total Chaos long travel. I was doing fine with the donahoes on it, but i had to have more. The cost was a ton, and that was a 50% off for everything including fox shocks and fiberglass etc because I was working for donahoe and friends with peeps in the industry.
The hastle of pulling each shock off and re valving it several times to get it right, trying several coil spring rates. The thing was so impracticle on the road. Front was wider than the rear so it was a pain to pick a line. Then I had to do the rear susp.... etc etc etc.
Best thing I ever did was get rid of it. Now the 4runner will get the mild treatment of bolt on parts and little mods here and there.
The anxiety that tacoma gave me was increadable. Dont get into something you cant afford...

(Just because this is the internet and people misunderstand things let me say that Total Chaos makes GREAT stuff. Nicole is great and a good friend. I regret it because I was biting off way more than I could chew at the time and it turned a daily driver into a pain to drive.)

-SOAZtim
Contributing Member

Just something to consider. . .

 

[Thurlo76]

well i wasnt going to get a long travel kit... i was just wondering about swapping torsion bars with coil overs

 

[eighty64runner]

Sorry, obviously I didn't read your original post very carefully. . . (embarrassed)

 

[Thurlo76]

not a big deal but i want someone to respond who has seen it done or heard of it or somthing... grr