Okay, maybe my mind wanders at night.

When it comes down to it, why did Toyota decide on different front suspension types for vehicles based off the same frame and front clip? Possible the application of each vehicle.

I understand that torsion bars are incredibly simple and cheap to produce, but why coils on runners?

Has anyone done a coilover swap to a pickup? Why or why not?

I'm sure I could have ten more questions in twenty minutes but I'm happy with these so far.

 

I'm confused, maybe I'm showing a lack of 4Runner knowledge here. What year are you speaking of? All the 89-95 Runners I've seen were torsion bar setups. The rears are coils, instead of leafs.

 

Sorry, I wasn't positive where to put this as I'm talking about 2 very different generations of Toyota suspensions. Also, didnt they switch tacos to coils the same time as runners?

Either way, I'm TOYing (heh) with the idea of a coilover on a 3rd gen pickup. Is this feasible?

Am I better off cost wise playing with my junk as is till I like the way it rides?

Edit; I should add I work 11 hour days and get up at 3:45 am, followed that when I posted this it was then 10pm. Reasoning and memory aren't exactly top notch this time of day for me.

 

Look at total chaos and then open your wallet and you will see why few people have coilovers on their 3rd gen pickup. I priced it at about 5000 by the time you've regeared, bought shocks and springs, long travel arms, shock hoops and all the necessary steering upgrades

 

I see, turns out I just switched the title of my "coilovers fund" to "sas fund"

 

Then, if you need tools it will be more and there is no point in sinking all this money into the front unless you plan to spend atleast half that on the rears. So 7500 bucks to have a long travel kit that is not sketchy on the steering.

 

Your best bet for getting One is finding a used truck on dezertrangers but you have to find one that hasn't been booty tabbed and hasn't been beaten to death. Hard to spend big money on a toy you know has been abused.

 

You can do a coilover SAS, or LT... hell, i wouldn't doubt that you could probably do a "coilover" conversion and not have long travel... but it would just make sense to do LT at that point