taco lean help!

hi guys.

My 95 taco leans to the drivers side. I know, many more have this same problem.

here's where I need your help.

I have access to a machining shop, I can make a ½" spacer to add on top of my drivers side strut and surely fix my 1" lean difference.

What I would like your help on is, do any of you guys have a squetch of the spacer, including dimensions?

you know, outside diameter, inside diameter and holes center locations?

I would like to fab one up, install it and check to see if the lean is fixed.

and if this works, if you guys ever need one, I can hook you up.

I would have to take mine apart in order to get these dimensions, but if anyone else has done it or have it apart, you know, be cool and lend me some dimensions.

thanks...

 

Can't forget Toytec's ridiculous shipping rate....$10 for a 100 gram item....=$30 bux. Go for the fab, get it right, then sell em for $20 shipped. I'm first in line

 

dud get some new springs and fix it the right way. thats what i did. got real lucky and picked up two springs and shock for $38!

 

Itll just lean again over time though.

Our trucks lean because Toyota put all the heavy stuff on 1 side. I have Front suspension less than a year old and band new deavers and I am already leaning. Personally ill be doing a fuel cell centered and relocating the battery to the back then adding a 2nd to the other side to even out my weight. Obviously not an option for most folks though.

 

funny thing that the side that sagged on my truck was the left side or the light side. i think its more of driving habit and where you park your truck

 

Every taco I have ever seen has a 1/2" - 3/4" lean to the drivers side. Even when I put brand new OME suspension on mine it leaned within 100 miles. Its the design of the truck, not how you park.

 

I'm still interested in fabbing up the spacer, it will fix my 1" front end lean.

As for the back, as soon as I get the spacer done, I will have the rear springs re-arched just enoguh to have it leveled. there is a shop here where they will fix it, and cheap too (about 30 bucks).

I have used this shop in the past on an 85 runner that I had and it turned out great.

hope one of you can get me these dimensions, no hurry.

 

when i park my truck the surface is uneven and the front right tire has more pressure on it than the front left tire.

 

I have never seen a taco that leans on the passenger side as you are saying yours does. Both my 99 and 04 lean on drivers (port,left,whatever) side because Toyota put the battery and the Fuel tank on that side. Its design flaw not how you park that causes the lean.

3 weeks ago I put on BRAND NEW Deaver f67 leafs. Within a week I was leaning 1.5" (yes I measured from axle to bump). Obviously the lean with these leafs is greater than stock as they are more flexible and also are still breaking in. But trust me, I didnt get that much lean because of how I am parking. After all, I park on a level surface.

 

ha well i guess i must just make more right turns. . . i replace the front springs so it a little better now. ill take a look and see if it is even possible to relocate the tank to the opposite side.

 

Mine leans to the passenger side (2003 dbl cab). Problem is I don't know if I've always had it or if its just more pronounced now that I got ReadyLift front leveling spacers in the front. Will upload a pic when I get a chance.

 

a fat girlfriend in the passenger seat will level it right out.

 

Yeah Toytec sticks it to you on the shipping! I bought a $20 set of rubber shock bushings. They charged me $16 to ship them. I believe that they were shipped through the postal service. I just could not believe how much they charged. highway robbery.