question about donahoe coilovers

Actually I got the ToyTec diff drop first. It's sitting on my stack of tires right now. Lift will be in from Wheelers on Friday and I already got a crew standing by ready to drop it on. Camera is in the truck, will definitely have before and after pics.

 

I set my c/o's to 2.5 inch lift on pass side and 2.75 on drivers side to make up for the taco lean, it noticeably leaning when set to the same height; anyways I installed the diff drop although not needed at 2.5 inches of lift; my cv's look like they are at the stock angle.
Good luck!

 

Is the tacoma lean common enough that i should preset my icons before i put'em on or just something to be aware of?

 

It's something you should adjust after they are on, my height was 1/2inch lower on the drivers side so I made sure to lift the left coilover 2 more turns than the passenger side; one turn=1/8inch. Mine are pumped all they way up to 2.5 inches of lift on the pass and 2.75 on the driverside.
I may be wrong as I forgot to measure my stock height.

I have 2inches of thread showing on the pass side and 2.25 on the drivers side, I didn't want to go higher; I heard that 2inches of thread is the most you should go up.

So after install lower the truck measure the amount of lift and do a visual check, you may not even notice a lean yet. I did my last adjustment for now 2 weeks after I installed as they will settle a bit.

 

Just picked mine up today. Have to drive to corona tomorrow for repair of a gouge that must of happened during shipping on the top hat. Icon customer service is great!!!

 

Donahoes showed up and got installed yesterday. After fighting with the stock UCAs to get'em out everything went back together easily. Took out the sway bar while we were in there and I definitely like it. Just waiting on wheels to get everything alligned. Probably going to adjust the suspension a little bit to level it out a bit when the wheels get in. Dropped OME Dakar leaf springs with the OME nitrocharger shocks in the back and now I have travel for days in the rear wheels.

 

Lol yours are safe, mine are in the mail and hopefully on the truck by the end of next week. Good thing too my squad leader asked me why theres a stack of 33" wheels at the foot of my bed in my barracks room. They help me sleep at night.
Glad to see you got the icons. Nice quality, eh? Funny about keeping your tires at the foot of your bed-I'd probably do the same thing.

 

Hi,I'm looking forward to do the same upgrades on my truck, i have been doing my own research too and somebody from downsouth motosport told me the best choice will be a set of Fox coilover shocks,i have a 3 inchs lift in my truck..But...I want to get rid of it because i kind of feel sometimes that i'm riding a donkey instead of a car,it's kind of bumpy and rough and i don't feel safe while off roading , i guess it's because of the strut spacer it did have when i bought it,so i wonder if a set of fox coilover in front with the 2.5 inch adjust and a set of 5100 billis with the piggy back in the rear would do the trick,the price they gave me for the coilovers was close to 1k (will auction one of my kidneys i think..))plus the rear shocks will get close to 1,300 i would like to get any advice or recommendation from the experts of this forum to know if what i'm planning to do is right..Any comment is more than welcome!!