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Originally Posted by Hirox
I installed 5125 rear shocks today.
Here is the pic compare between HD shocks I took off.
This is after install 5215 and 906 coil. This is bad pic,I will retake this weekend.
when installing DR coilover and UCA to front.
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That stud to eye adapter is a really bad idea on a 3rd Gen 4Runner. The rear axle moves forward and back when the tires go up and down and side to side as one tire stuffs up high and the other droops low, it does this at the same time. With the stud the very intelligent people at Toyota provided for movement in both directions at the same time. Now with this stud adapter you only have movement forward and back, not side to side, if you drive it on the street, nothing will happen, but if you actually use it off road, the side to side movement will bind/bend the shock. That being said if the 3rd Gen 4Runner had rear leaf springs, the stud adapter would be fine, but it does not have rear leaf springs as they do not move side to side only forward-back, a-la the Tacoma with it's dual eye rear shocks.
Which is why we had Bilstein make the correct shock for us with the stud at the top.