I'm looking at some 2.5" coil overs for the front lift on my 97 4runner 4x4.
I'm going with 96 land cruiser rear springs, Bilstien 5100 rear shocks and sonoran steal diff drop spacers.
I've narrowed it down to those 2 choices on the front coil overs. They both seem the same dimensionaly, similar in price too.
Wondering what everyone else s' preference is?

 

fabtechs are nice my friend has some on this tacoma and they ride nice

 

I have a taco that I cheeped out and put fabtech C/O's on. The ride was horrible, I recently swtiched up to SAW's and LOVE them. My combo was stock springs with AAL and fabtech basic shocks in the rear (which I still have with the SAWs.

I know that front/rear suspension does play a role, and I have a taco vs. runner, but thought I'd throw my 2 pennies in. Hands down, go SAW over fabtech.

 

Thanks, going with the swayaways.
I've been looking at the 5100 shocks, and it doesnt look like they make one for 97 4runners.
Can anyone suggest a rear shock that will work well with the swayaways?

 

i like the bbcs shocks from polyperformance i have mine for 3yrs

 

Ok, I'm looking at some bilstein 5125 series shocks.
My question is will these shocks work with a 2.5" lift?
scroll all the way to the bottom of the list, the only ones I can find that have a stem/eye mount. Part # BE5-6140-T5
http://www.raceshock.com/Bilstein/bilstein5125.htm

It sure seems like no one makes much in the way of offroad stuff for the back end of a 4runner.

 

Well, I figured the 5125's I'm looking at wont work with a lift.
I found in another forum that I should be looking for roughly 8" of travel, 23" ext length.
Now to find a shock with a stem/eye mount that fits those specs. Guess I'm gonna have to go custom on this since I can't find a listing anywhere for a 97 4runner rear shock. (other than OME, might have to go with those)

 

i would also look a the skyjacker platnums i have thoses on my stock 88 4runner dd and they work great and they were 80 a shock