I drive a 1988 4runner sr5 and i am looking to lift it and need some advice. I have searched online some and found some lift kits for sale. The kits seem to be a reasonable price and seem to have everything except shocks. I was wondering if the kits are really everything they seem to be. Any advice is greatly appreciated as i am fairly new to upgrading cars and new to the yotatech website.

 

Welcome to YT.

 

best bet imo.

ball joint spacers up front an new leafs or shackles in rear.

wabfab has a balljoint and add a leaf for the rear kit on his site for 239. good deal imo.

this is basically a 1.5 or 2in lift btw. just my 2 cents

 

Would you enlighten me on how exactly the ball joint spacer "lift" works?
From what i understand, it puts a spacer between the ball joint on the top of the knuckle at the A-arm, but i don't understand how it actually lifts the truck.

 

It lowers the nuckle, wheel assembly and lower control arm 1.5". This can be counteracted by lowering the torsion bars, for stock height but loads of flex.

Searching is easy. These things have been covered thousands of times, seriously!

Not trying to be a dick, but its no fun answering the same questions 50 times

To the orignal poster. What kind of lifts were you looking into?

What kind, what brand etc. etc. We need a lil more info.

What do you want to do with the truck, just put around and look good. Or do you want to really wheel it??

 

hey does anybody know if a basic 3" lift kit for a 85 pickup will fit a 85 4runner?i don't mean to jack the thread but im gonna order right now and i need to know

 

Yes. All the same in 85.

 

sweet now i can place my order, thanks man

 

What kind of lift are you getting anyways? Shackles and blocks??

 

well im goin cheap right now im doin all new springs and shackles, im goin with rough country, yea i know it ain't great but my leafs are going the opposite direction and I just got back from wheelin and did not like how it performed with the shot leafs and shocks. It is all stock lol

 

Ahh.

Well it should all fit. The suspension should be the exact same.

Stock is no fun

I would look into some 63" chevies for the rear. Get you loads of flex!!!

 

yea i was going to do that but the thing is I have no welder to weld new hanger spots and i have no other car to drive so my down time needs to be small. I can't put the stock rears in the front since they are gone so this will do for now. When I get another truck then I will overhaul the suspension and make it into a real Toy

 

im in the same situation. my plan is to get the mounts welded on, and do it myself at home. Since its so popular you can find the measurments to where you gotta have the brackets welded...

 

I have been looking at the pro comp 4 inch suspension lift and the tuff country 4 inch suspension lift

 

Welcome to Yotatech!!!!!!

Go with the Procomp Stage II.

Again, what kinda wheelin you planning on doing??? If you want something a little more flexy I'd probably go with the Wabfab kit mentioned above. I have the Procomp kit and it's a good kit, very durable.

 

How hard was it to install? Also what kind of shocks are good?

 

Depends.
You worked on cars before?
There's lots of info on here to help you out. You are going to have to grind down some stuff on the front end to fit the drop brackets.
Do you have a grinder or sawzall?
What size tires you want to run?
You think about the gear ratios yet to compensate for bigger tires???

As far as shocks go...WHAT KIND OF WHEELING YOU DOIN??????
Just get some basics shocks, Procomps are fine. I run Ranchos and have for years, my dad runs them on his rig.

 

I am not looking to go serious wheelin just some back country trails. I don't have a sawzall or a grinder but i could probably find one. Does the kit require a lot of modification?

 

No not a lot, but it does require you to cut off a tab.

 

You have to cut part of the frame (like an inch or so) to clear the differentail when its in the new drop brackets. The tab that the stock crossmember bolts to, on the passenger side.

You will mostly be dealing with rusty and corroded bolts and such. Not fun..