LawnDart's Build Thread

LawnDart said:
Sorry for the late response. I'd say it was more exhausting because Hwy 1 has a lot of constant curves, punctuated by some pretty sharp turns on hills coming up to fast inclines, so you're essentially carving into some pretty fast decelerations and then accelerating out of some hairpin turns. This would be difficult even in a smaller sports car. The long travel doesn't dramatically affect things, but you tend to carve in maybe a little more intensely and you have to manage your speeds.

It says 55mph on the roads but some of them are so windy you'd be hard pressed to do 40mph on a good day, and it was dumping rain.

I will say, and a lot of folks might gloss over this, but the upkeep on the long travel components is a lot more intense. For example I got home friday, and yesterday I took the car to the self serve car wash, and blasted it with soap and sprayed it off.

Later in the day I started getting a truly dreadful squeaking noise. Like "oh sweet baby jesus" level bad as I was on the streets. So bad people looked at me like i was driving an 1980's level shitbox corolloa level bad. Basically I think the soap dried out the uniball polyurethane bushings. So today I went over to REI and bought some Triflow spray on dry lube (it's basically graphite powder in a fish oil medium) and sprayed the uniballs on the UCAs, LCAs, trailing arms, and pan arm bar, and it totally went away. I was also advised to hit the bushings too, since it won't affect the existing grease.

Basically, if you daily drive a long travel truck, prepare for a lot more time spent under your truck.
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T-9 is your friend. It lasts a bit longer than the Triflow. Even will do ok in rain. Probably reduce your "lubing" to a monthly thing instead of weekly or bi-weekly. :guitar3:
 
bimrunner said:
It isn't petrol based and amazon as the link above. I keep it in my rig. Use it for shocks too. Great stuff.
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Cool I might stick with the triflow in the aerosol for now just because that's what TC explicitly says to use.

For a while they said NO lube because too many people we're using shit like WD40 and eating up the polyurethane bushings.
 
ty.goins said:
Did Safari ever release the snorkel yet to replace your protype yet?


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Not yet. I think both ARB USA and I are a little frustrated it's taking as long as it has. My snorkel has definitely started to show some weathering, and if things extend into december I'll mask it off and re-spray paint it so it doesn't become brittle from the sun.

The plan is still for a final validation fitting before end of the year, and then it'll go into production. That fitting didn't happen in time for SEMA, otherwise it likely would have been announced for production.
 
LawnDart said:
Cool I might stick with the triflow in the aerosol for now just because that's what TC explicitly says to use.

For a while they said NO lube because too many people we're using shit like WD40 and eating up the polyurethane bushings.
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Yeah. I used it for a few years on my TC UCA and they never squeaked. Others here use it too and have been for a long time. I use it on my Airstream as well and wouldn't let WD40 touch that thing with a 10 foot pole. No rush. Use the Triflow up and look into it when you have time.
 
bimrunner said:
Yeah. I used it for a few years on my TC UCA and they never squeaked. Others here use it too and have been for a long time. I use it on my Airstream as well and wouldn't let WD40 touch that thing with a 10 foot pole. No rush. Use the Triflow up and look into it when you have time.
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Thanks, I bought the squirt bottle but will get an aerosol can since getting to the uniballs for the upper links is an exercise in torture.

After the 2600 mile drive from ABQ to Portland the suspension has settled. The passenger front is a bit too high, and the driver side rear is a bit too low. So the passenger front coilover needs to have some preload removed and worst case the driver side coilver needs to come up just a tiny bit, and the truck should level out.

On the 14th we're going to swap the brake pads for EBC Yellow pads, just to help stop what is a much heavier rig.

Winch is being changed out to the Warn Platinum 10K. We have to rebuild the exhaust after we had to cut it back ridiculously high to fit the Anti-Rock bar.

We're doing underbody camp lighting. And I'm changing out all my lights to Baja Designs.

That'll complete upgrades for the rest of the year. Then it's just focusing on getting the trailer done.
 
Got time to sit down and finally read through all the way from the FJ Summit post, seriously awesome job on this build. Reading about your long travel squeaks has me a little uneasy after I just swapped about 75% of my bushings with Poly so Ill be picking up some of that spray, Im already staring to squick pretty good on larger bumps and dips! Keep up the good work man, seriously in love with your rig!
 
Suspension question, for lawn (or anyone)... but I noticed earlier you were running with an Icon Stage 5 Tubular setup prior to going to your current King set up. I'm assuming you went that route with the added weight and what not, but just looking for advice would you say the Icon set up be a good choice for a newbie looking to do modest overland routes (nothing too extreme) without spending as much as a high-end king set up? or should I look towards maybe a lower end Fox or King suspension setup instead of the Icons. Thanks again lawndart for all the inspiration and help. My 4Runner has a picture of your 4Runner in his garage.:banana:
 
Padres86 said:
Suspension question, for lawn (or anyone)... but I noticed earlier you were running with an Icon Stage 5 Tubular setup prior to going to your current King set up. I'm assuming you went that route with the added weight and what not, but just looking for advice would you say the Icon set up be a good choice for a newbie looking to do modest overland routes (nothing too extreme) without spending as much as a high-end king set up? or should I look towards maybe a lower end Fox or King suspension setup instead of the Icons. Thanks again lawndart for all the inspiration and help. My 4Runner has a picture of your 4Runner in his garage.:banana:
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He is also running a Long Travel set up now so it all the ICON stuff had to be replaced.


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mikey's2010SR5 said:
He is also running a Long Travel set up now so it all the ICON stuff had to be replaced.

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Right. I was just curious why he replaced it was all. And would anyone recommend his previous setup for someone getting into overlanding and it not costing as much as his current setup. Basically, for a newbie what suspension setup would you go for. Thanks.
 
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