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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 10:30 AM
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Matching a Superlift?

I found a guy locally who's selling a 4" superlift, basically everything on the front end(lift, downey torsion bars, shocks and a bumper).

I'm trying to figure out the best way to match the 4~" lift, in the rear of my '92 runner I'm on the stock coils still. So I was thinking if I crank the t-bars down a little bit, I could lower the front end to about a 3" lift, then put 2" coils and a 1" spacer in the rear.

Anyone have any other ideas?
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 11:37 AM
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bill you can get the downey HD coils and a 2" spacer to match 4" of lift in the rear and go with longer springs...

go for BJ spacers up front
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 12:17 PM
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I don't think you can lower the front any lower than the 4", but you can raise it a bit....you could always crank the tbars a bit and run cruiser coils...
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 12:22 PM
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I'm not totally sure what I'm going to do yet. Either go with a 4" superlift "type" lift, or go with a 2" lift using BJ spacers, OME t-bars, and 2" OME coils(going through strap22).

I know I want to be able to clear 33x12.5's. Don't know if/when I'd get a set, but I'm trying to plan ahead.
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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Is the Superlift kit really a 4" lift? Most are a 3" lift and then you crank the Tbars to get the extra inch.
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Flamedx4
Is the Superlift kit really a 4" lift? Most are a 3" lift and then you crank the Tbars to get the extra inch.
When I installed the SL kit on my ex-wife's 94 4Runner (25mm torsions), I got ~6" of lift. I had to reindex the torsions to level the front w/ the 4" rear.

Personally, I think there are two options.
1 - buy the rear kit from SL
2 - convert to leafs.

I don't like the mix-n-match approach. And there's NO WAY that you'll lower the SL kit to 3", as far as I can tell.
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Old Jan 1, 2006 | 05:31 PM
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I would go with cruiser coils instead of spacers. If you're going to have all that lift - why not get travel out of all of it?
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