My girl has new shoes and a lift *pics*
09-29-2006, 12:09 PM
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My girl has new shoes and a lift *pics*
My 99 4runner still had the original tires when I bought it a few months ago with 50k miles on it. She now has 61k and it was time to treat my girl to some new shoes and a lift. After reading many of the reviews I went with the 265/75-16 Nitto Terra Grapplers from Discount Tire online, can't beat the price. For the lift I bought 2.5" urethane spacers off ebay and I got OME 891 for the rear.
I estimated 4 hours for the lift Wednesday night. It ended up taking me right at 3 hours for the front and 45 minutes for the rear, doing it by myself. This morning I got the tires put on and an alignment and she rides oh so smooth. I've been living with an out of balance, vibrating at 65 mph, front end since I bought the truck. No doubt due to a hub centric balance job. I found a local tire shop with Gadget's recommended Hawkda adapter and GSP9700 and I am very pleased with the results.
Driving the truck Thursday after I installed the lift, but still with stock tires, I started to think that I had gone to small. Now with the tires on it takes just enough of a hop to climb in and out of the truck. The ride is more firm, as others have said, but it had as much to do with going from P rated tires to LT than it did the "HD" springs and spacers. All in all, I am very pleased with the result, both the overall ride and look of the truck. On to the pics...
Pre-lift and tires:
Lift w/o tires:
Lift w/ tires:
Stock 99 rear spring/new OME891/LC coil:
I estimated 4 hours for the lift Wednesday night. It ended up taking me right at 3 hours for the front and 45 minutes for the rear, doing it by myself. This morning I got the tires put on and an alignment and she rides oh so smooth. I've been living with an out of balance, vibrating at 65 mph, front end since I bought the truck. No doubt due to a hub centric balance job. I found a local tire shop with Gadget's recommended Hawkda adapter and GSP9700 and I am very pleased with the results.
Driving the truck Thursday after I installed the lift, but still with stock tires, I started to think that I had gone to small. Now with the tires on it takes just enough of a hop to climb in and out of the truck. The ride is more firm, as others have said, but it had as much to do with going from P rated tires to LT than it did the "HD" springs and spacers. All in all, I am very pleased with the result, both the overall ride and look of the truck. On to the pics...
Pre-lift and tires:
Lift w/o tires:
Lift w/ tires:
Stock 99 rear spring/new OME891/LC coil:
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09-29-2006, 01:22 PM
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The front lift was around 2". The rear was ~2.5". I left the stock shocks on but will replace the rear as soon as possible. I was doing this on the cheap so I wanted to make sure the 891s were what I wanted before I bought anything else
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I'm jealous too! I don't know why I had such problems with my measly 1 1/2" Daystar Spacers in the front. I also have a '99 with 265/75R 16s - the only difference being I have Bilstein HDs (longer than stock). First off, getting the entire assembly back in involved unbolting way too many parts and then muscling it back in with a buddy using a huge 4 foot crow bar. Then after driving on them, I had CV boot grease splatter everywhere. It didn't work out so well for me. So I ditched the spacers. Just running Bilsteins with stock '99 coils.
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The 2.5" front spacers were bought new off ebay from Hammerhead 4x4 for $40.99 plus shipping. It came with upper and lower poly spacers and longer studs with washers and nuts. Quality was good and met my expectations. Shipping was prompt.
Install of the spacers would have been near impossible by myself had I had not seen the post on yotatech about using the stock 4runner bottle jack between the inner fender well and the upper a-arm to mount the front strut. The only thing I took loose on the front end was the tire and upper and lower strut mounts. The instructions suggested removing the sway bar, ball joints, ... but the bottle jack did the trick.
As for the LC coils in the picture, I ran across a deal on a front and rear set of stock LC coils which I just couldn't pass up. I thought for several weeks about using the LC coils in the rear but in the end I decided to go with 265/75-16 to maintain power and gas mileage. I sold the front coils to partially fund the 891s and I held on to the rear until I was finished just to make sure the 891s satisfied me. Now that I am happy with what I have I will offer the LC coils for sale.
I bought the 891s from Toyota of Dallas (www.trdparts4u.com). The coils were drop shipped in a matter of days and their customer service was top notch. To top it off they accept paypal which met my needs on this transaction.
Install of the spacers would have been near impossible by myself had I had not seen the post on yotatech about using the stock 4runner bottle jack between the inner fender well and the upper a-arm to mount the front strut. The only thing I took loose on the front end was the tire and upper and lower strut mounts. The instructions suggested removing the sway bar, ball joints, ... but the bottle jack did the trick.
As for the LC coils in the picture, I ran across a deal on a front and rear set of stock LC coils which I just couldn't pass up. I thought for several weeks about using the LC coils in the rear but in the end I decided to go with 265/75-16 to maintain power and gas mileage. I sold the front coils to partially fund the 891s and I held on to the rear until I was finished just to make sure the 891s satisfied me. Now that I am happy with what I have I will offer the LC coils for sale.
I bought the 891s from Toyota of Dallas (www.trdparts4u.com). The coils were drop shipped in a matter of days and their customer service was top notch. To top it off they accept paypal which met my needs on this transaction.
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I found the bottle jack nice because it allowed me to use both hands to line up the strut in the bottom mount and then get the bolt in. This might not be an issue if two people are working together but doing it on my own I can't imagine prying the a-arm and lining everything up at the same time.
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