So I was talking to someone about my front end lift and how I'd like to get it lifted another inch, from 2 to 3, which it's capable of and he said that although the spring can get you up that high the shock may not have enough droop, I assume he means travel, to make it worth it. That I can end up hitting the down travel limit of the shock before I hit the springs down travel limit keeping the wheel from hitting the ground.

This does make sense since the truck has its IFS limitations but why would any of the manufacturers make a kit that does that, Downey, King, SAW, etc? This would be the first I've heard of this. Any truth to it?

EDIT:

I should have added that the reason that this was mentioned was that since the shock will stop before the lower arm stops, droop stop I think it was called isn't in the later Tacomas, that the shock has a chance of being popped off it's mount.

Now I don't know anything about this and am just regurgitating what I was told but I think this was the main point of all the above.

 

I think most lifts have mis-matched shock size. This is because of the use of stock shock mounts. After lifiting, sometimes you have to choose between having enough droop to match the suspension or enough compression to match the suspension. In order for the shock to have the same amount of travel as the suspension it needs to be longer - but by using a longer shock (with the stock shock mounts), the shock will bottom out before the suspension does.

Just because someone has 15" of vertical travel, you can't just throw a 15" travel shock on and expect it to work - the location of the shock will have to be modified so that the shock doesn't limit suspension travel.