jimrockford

I spent the morning installing a 2 1/2" Daystar spacer lift on my 4Runner. I'm thinking new tires are in order now. What do you think?

waskillywabbit

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Time for some sliders and bigger meats!

r0cky

sweet stuff, Kevin!!

SD4Runner

IT lost some of the black when you lifted it

hehe. just kiddin' looking good Bud

Yoter

I swore to god it was a photo chop pic but then i looked and saw the different cars in the background. looks good Kev.

jimrockford

It sure did. What a difference 5 hours makes. The clouds rolled in while I was doing the lift. I took the picture just before it started raining. It came out looking pretty washed out. I photoshopped it to try to bring some of the color back, but couldn't do much with it. The before shot is untouched.

We've been going through some strange weather over the last week or so. We had a tornado about a 1/2 mile from our house a few days ago. I was driving home when I spotted it. It looked like it was heading straight for my house. When I pulled up to my front door, my kids were standing on the porch wondering what the loud tornado warning siren was. I herded them into the basement for a while. Luckily the tornado died out before it hit our housing area, but extremely heavy rain and hail continued for most of the night and into the next day.

Not good picture taking weather I guess.

Yoter

You must live very close to my gf. She lives in an apartment complex at the top of the hill next ot the afb. I will be over there in June, I plan on getting lost a lot. Ben

terky

Ive been wondering where all this weird weather has been coming from? We never have tornadoes up here and it seems recently they are common!

shazaam

lift looks good .. now take off the running boards.

Parsh

Looks good!

jimrockford

Yep, running boards have got to go. I've just need some free time when it's not raining.

Fink

It shouldn't take you too long to take the boards off...took me about 15 minutes, and 5 of those was fightin to get one of the bolts off with the breaker bar.

Looks good man, cant wait to see it with the boards off!

Fink

jimrockford

Well, the running boards are still on, but I got some new meats put on today. What do you think?

I got BFG Mud Terrain 285/75R 16s. It looks like I'm going to have some rubbing issues. I won't know how bad until I have a chance to take it off road.

airforce131

love your 4runner!!! I just had the same tires put on mine last week......mine are 265/75/16. ill post some pics with my cornfeds and new tires tomorrow or the next day. how do you like those tires?? they are a little louder than stock huh? haahha.

jimrockford

They are a little louder than stock, but not too bad though. This is the third set I've had. I ran them on my '91 until I sold it. They're awesome tires.

The 285s are definitely a lot bigger than the 31s I had on my '91. I wasn't sure they were going to fit when they were putting them on. But when they brought it down off the lift, I knew they were the right tires. I can't wait to break them in. They look way too clean.

BajaRunner

Im interested in the rubbing, and power..

Ive been tossing the idea of getting some 285's put on, but, I relaly odnt want too much loss of power and I dont want to install a BL or pound away at my fender.

When driving on-road, do you experience rubbing?

The 'Runner looks great by the way!

shazaam

They will rub and its going to sound pretty bad. shoot an e-mail to roger brown and get a 1.5 BL .. and that will fix your rubbing issues, and with only 1.5", it will still look stock.

the tires really make it look good

Fink

Looks like your gonna have some pretty good rubbin goin on...I had a little bit on mine, but I just broke out the sawzall and the dremel and all is well now!

Looks awesome though man, I love the BFG's, best tire I've ever owned.

Fink

jimrockford

Thanks for the compliments. You guys are right. There's definitely some rubbing going on. I'm a little concerned.

I went to the local ORV Park with some friends today. In the front I was rubbing on the upper A arm at full flex, and a little bit on the frame at full turn. I think I might have also managed to make contact with the running board too, but just barely if I did. In the back, I rubbed on the rear mud flap.

I think I can trim the rear mud flap to eliminate the rubbing but I might have to replace one of the bolts that hold it on with a lower profile screw. In the front, I'm not sure what I can do. It looks like I need a spacer to move the wheel away from the frame. That should prevent contact with the A arm and the frame, but might cause more rubbing with the fender flares. Anybody have any ideas?


As I said above, I'm definitely rubbing. On road, it only rubs on the frame when I turn at full lock. If I go slow enough it doesn't rub, but if the suspension flexes during the turn it rubs. That's the only rubbing I saw on road.

The difference in power is noticable but not too bad. I feel like the deckplate mod almost makes up for the bigger tires. I don't know about gas mileage yet, though. I'm still on the same tank and put some hard miles on it today at the ORV Park.

As far as pounding on the fender goes, I'm not sure what people mean. I didn't see a pinch weld that would interfere. It's mainly plastic that it's rubbing against (except for the frame and A arm of course).

EDIT: Oh yeah, I bent my running board today on an off camber hill climb. Looks like they'll have to come off now.

BajaRunner

How much would it cost to get a BL installed? It looks like its a little harder than installing a suspension lift!

Plus, dont you need a steering extension, as well as a bumper drop, or is that not needed?