Delta VS
Supporting Vendor
The question has been raised over and over again:
How do I fix my caster after installing "x" springs and having "y" lift?
Well, how much lift do you actually have? How much weight do you carry around? What is the distance from center of wheel to fender? These are all questions that get asked over and over again.
This forum is a wealth of knowledge, but sometimes it takes a while to sift through and sometimes some of it gets missed/overlooked.
We would like to do our part in helping make some of that info easier to access, and are going to try this out. Made a google form to make collecting the data easy, and making the data easily accessible to the Mud community.
FULL DISCLOSURE: this info will be used to help us improve our products. We will be using the data as is and will not be altering the data in any way. The same info will be available to you and our competitors, for as long as google keeps their "forms" and "sheets" programs alive. Meaning we won't remove the info. We will download (and you can too) the data on occasion and save it away for posterity sake so that if it does get shut down for some reason, it can be uploaded elsewhere and continued to be used.
The only non-required bit of info requested is your Mud username. There is no other identifying info or anything like that being collected (tinfoil hat removed).
The tabulated results can be viewed here: DeltaVS 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser Lift height/caster data (going to be working on the formatting in an attempt to make everybody's eyes not bleed while looking at it, any help from google sheets experts would be welcomed)
The form can be accessed here: DeltaVS 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser Lift height/caster data
We would like to offer our preferred method for measuring actual lift (and these numbers are requested in the form):
Measuring from a smooth, FLAT surface up to the bolts on each end of the front and rear panhards (yellow lines), then finding the difference (red arrow) between the two measurements. This gives what we feel to be the most consistent, concrete, vehicle to vehicle, comparison. Ideally, you would have measured that difference when you took delivery of your 80 Series from the factory as a baseline number. Considering most reading this probably didn't do this, we need to make due. So if you have an unlifted rig (stock springs), it's even more important that you share your data.
It would also be super awesome if you could take your rig to an alignment shop to get actual caster numbers. @Beej volunteered to reimburse ANYBODY for the cost of getting that done as long as the data is shared...
while that's pretty awesome of him, probably a good idea to go easy on him.
How do I fix my caster after installing "x" springs and having "y" lift?
Well, how much lift do you actually have? How much weight do you carry around? What is the distance from center of wheel to fender? These are all questions that get asked over and over again.
This forum is a wealth of knowledge, but sometimes it takes a while to sift through and sometimes some of it gets missed/overlooked.
We would like to do our part in helping make some of that info easier to access, and are going to try this out. Made a google form to make collecting the data easy, and making the data easily accessible to the Mud community.
FULL DISCLOSURE: this info will be used to help us improve our products. We will be using the data as is and will not be altering the data in any way. The same info will be available to you and our competitors, for as long as google keeps their "forms" and "sheets" programs alive. Meaning we won't remove the info. We will download (and you can too) the data on occasion and save it away for posterity sake so that if it does get shut down for some reason, it can be uploaded elsewhere and continued to be used.
The only non-required bit of info requested is your Mud username. There is no other identifying info or anything like that being collected (tinfoil hat removed).
The tabulated results can be viewed here: DeltaVS 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser Lift height/caster data (going to be working on the formatting in an attempt to make everybody's eyes not bleed while looking at it, any help from google sheets experts would be welcomed)
The form can be accessed here: DeltaVS 91-97 Toyota Land Cruiser Lift height/caster data
We would like to offer our preferred method for measuring actual lift (and these numbers are requested in the form):
Measuring from a smooth, FLAT surface up to the bolts on each end of the front and rear panhards (yellow lines), then finding the difference (red arrow) between the two measurements. This gives what we feel to be the most consistent, concrete, vehicle to vehicle, comparison. Ideally, you would have measured that difference when you took delivery of your 80 Series from the factory as a baseline number. Considering most reading this probably didn't do this, we need to make due. So if you have an unlifted rig (stock springs), it's even more important that you share your data.
It would also be super awesome if you could take your rig to an alignment shop to get actual caster numbers. @Beej volunteered to reimburse ANYBODY for the cost of getting that done as long as the data is shared...
while that's pretty awesome of him, probably a good idea to go easy on him.
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Its for guys that can get that stock springs info though. Its only fair since its an unneeded trip for them. PM if you got the goods.
