http://128.83.80.200/taco/scarysteering.html

There is a 4Runner on there from YotaTech that did this:



Who the heck did that?

 

I think I would have mounted them the other way IF I HAD to use those to keep from any side to side swaying. thank god for RB BL's!

 

Would have been better to weld the blocks to top of the the frame brackets then move the stock bushings to the top of the spacers and maybe a plate or cross brace on the spacer wouldn't hurt. By spacing off the frame brackets, you reduce the leverage on the body mount bushings, so for tall lifts (3" and over) that is the way to go.

Hopefully that is not the finished install, because the really scary thing is they don't have the lower bolt and bushing properly installed. Note how the bottom half of the bushing is not in contact with the frame bracket. Hit a good bump in the road or make a sudden stop and there is nothing holding the body down except for gravity, its likely to lift up and shift. That *is* scary.

 

Uh oh...One of my bushings IS like that. It was like that stock....Try as I might, I coudln't figure it out. Well..Kinda like that. My bolt is oriented properly, but the bushing simply won't go up the body mount like the rest of them.


*flame suit on*

 

Could be the upper bushing has collapsed or disintegrated (old rubber gets soft and cracked). Would be a good idea to disassemble that mount and find out what is wrong and fix it. My '85 had 1 *missing* body mount in the rear corner, I figure the PO must have heard a rattling sound back there when the upper bushing fell apart so in his wise and all-knowing ways, the *fix* was to remove that silly bolt that was rattling and making noise back there. Then to top it off, he could not get the front body mount bolts in with the Smitty bumper he installed (holes lined up poorly), so the *fix* was a pair of tiny (1/4" dia. or so) bolts (instead of the 10mm stock ones). There was so much play in the pumper you could move it back and forth by hand. And with the tiny bolts flopping around inside the rubber bushings, they were all chewed up when I finally replaced everything with a new set of poly body mount bushings.

 

I wonder if its Breezy's rig. He would always take short cuts!

 

No worries. All 3rd gens have one bushing like that. It's located under the center pillar between the doors. I have no idea why it's like that, but all 3rd gens' center mounts are like that.

 

Good to know. Thats exactly where mine is, on the driver's side...but WHY?

 

that is one angry dude!

 

Actually not. Robert is a ˟˟˟˟˟cat in person and on the boards. But he has some fun with the scary steering pages.

Read some of his trip reports and other commentary at http://128.83.80.200/taco/ and you will get a better sense of who he is.

 

and don't forget that you have one on the Passenger side too.

 

If I'm understanding you correctly, then no, not all 3rd gens have them. 96s don't have body mounts there.

 

ahhh, you sir are correct. forgot about the bastard stepchild that toyota made in '95.5 and '96.

 

Guess I've never looked closely at the middle mounts on the '97 and later 3rd gens, that is a strange looking bushing setup.

Here's the bolt-on body mount bracket kit I make for the '96s that are missing the center mounts:



Body Mount Bracket kit

 

wow....

Those ARE total hack jobs of lifts on Robert's 'scary steering' site.

Why do people do the z-link steering??

And that body lift posted here scares me just looking at it.....