I found someone that has a lift kit for sale. It's for the 1st gen 4runner but i'm just wondering if he trying to rip me off here is the queastion. Does any company out there make a 7.5 inch lift for the 1st gen 4runner? If so can you list them so i can get a idea whay to look for and measure to see if it is a real 7.5 lift.

 

i think the biggest lift(suspension wise) there is for a 4runner is 5inch, but i could be wrong

 

i just bought one for my stepson for his truck and my 4runner calls for the same lift and, it was the biggest on the market and it was 5in. But i figured i would ask and find out.

 

The only way I can see getting that much is using a 4.5" lift(pro comp,super lift ect...),Ball Joint Spacers 1.5" and torsion bars or cranking stock bars to 1.5" granting you 7" of lift. I don't see any other way to get the IFS portion of the suspension lifted,except longer A-arms which is like the Downey and Total Chaos systems,these are super expensive and doubt that anyone will get a good deal on a kit.
What parts does this individual say is in the kit?

 

7" lift would require a SA up front. Superlift makes them:

http://www.superlift.com/Catalog.asp?V=280

 

The guy said that he bought it from skyjacker but they only make the 4" kit I'm going to look at it saturday I only know of a 5" lift from rough country. He also said that it had extra parts that he bought. i asked for pictures and he sent me one off the internet but it was of a rough country kit

 

saying "1st Gen 4Runner" is misleading. "1st Gen" (84-90) 4Runner's were available with leaf spring (84-85) and IFS (86>).
It's possible to get 7+ inches from the leaf springs, but not so easy from IFS..

 

he stated that it was for his 88 4runner.

 

i guess i'll find out saturday what do i measure on the kit to see what size it actually going to be

 

'89

 

True.

 

Only way to get 7.5" of lift with IFS is a bracket lift, a tbar crank or bj spacers, and a body lift. Unless he's giving you 3 separate lifts in a box he's FOS...

 

i think that too FOS asked him to send a picture of the lift that is in his possesion and no reply.

 

yea i got my lift on my truck and i think 4to5inches of lift was all i can get out of my lift kit i also have a 3in bodylift and that only gets me 7 to8inches of lift i call FOS on this guy the only lift i found for a 4runner was 1986 to 1989 and that gives you 4to5inches of lift and that was 609.95 from roughcountry

 

i just bought that lift for my stepson's pickup. and it is in fact a 5in lift and then we added a 3in body and got 8. just making sure i wasn't missing something when we looked for his lift. because my 4runner calls for the same lift as his.

 

hey guys found out were he got 7.5 in from went and looked at kit this morning it is a 5in rough country lift kit with add a leaf kit and ball joint spacers.

 

but wouldnt that be 6.5 instead of 7.5? the tallest ball joint spacer they make is 1.5 and add a leafs only net about 1 to 2 inches for one leaf

 

The kit is a 4" kit no matter what the idiot tells you...

RC and Superlift both call it 4-5" but the extra inch is from them telling you to crank the tbars. So assuming the guy does have bj spacers (probably 1.5" spacers) he's still only giving you a 5.5" lift...

 

i just install the RC lift and it is a true 5in kit with no bar adjusting

 

mine was 4 with my 3in bodylift i got about 7 maybe a hair less but i rounded up so 7in total