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Sick Suspension

November 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management

Sick is how 4WD Toyota Owner described our rig and the Total Chaos 2″ long travel kit after they published our article on the install Metal Tech did for us a while back…  If you liked the on-line Total Chaos 2″ Long Travel Install video and story, you’ll love this article.
While we didn’t make the [...]

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Too Much Wheel Travel, Is There Such A Thing?

January 15th, 2009 · 13 Comments · FJ Cruiser Mods and Articles

As the saying goes “you can never be too thin or too rich”.  We’d add, your rig can never have too much wheel travel.  To that end we finally took the plunge and threw out the stock independent front suspension (IFS) and replaced it with Total Chaos’ 2″ long travel kit…
FJ Cruiser Long Travel Buildup [...]

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Knuckle Buckle Buster (say that fast 3 times)

January 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · How To Info

Turns out there is a weak spot in the FJ Cruiser’s front knuckles that can give out under the right circumstances.  Now those circumstances include speed, suspension extension and brute force, all in the right combination…
Since we look for places that set up situations where all those circumstances come together, we thought we would see [...]

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