04 Tacoma lifts

Hey guys new to the community I have a few questions on some lifts. I currently have an 04 xtra cab with 2in on the suspension with spacers and blocks. Had it for a bit now and I want to go bigger. Thinking about either keeping what I have and adding 3in on the body or taking out the 2in and going with a 6 from Fabtech or trailmaster. What do you think? I would like to fit 33x12.50s or maybe something slightly bigger.

 

Are you gonna wheel it at all? Or is it gonna be a pavement princess? You can fit 33x12.5s on a 3 inch suspension lift if you have the right wheels and/or spacers.

 

You can do the BL and tuck certain 35 with the right wheel and tire combo. Or can go 6" fabtech and run a wide wheel and wide 33" depending on which look your wanting to go for

 

Probably a little off-roading. I'm in high school right now and my parents are a little strict on what I can do and I don't want to do anything to hardcore. Do you think I could fit a 35 with the BL combo?

 

Get a good 3" lift like ome or even better like icon or fox !

 

Just my opinion: huge tires with no need for them are a huge waste of cash. If you're in high school I assume you have a part time job that pays like garbage. Unless you're using your parents money, there's better places to spend money elsewhere.

Anywho, body lifts are horrible to look at, so just cross that off the list.

Find yourself a 6" db lift and don't stack other lifts with it.

33/12.5 are really wide for these trucks, and you'll have issues turning. You'd be so much better off with 285/75/16s with an aftermarket wheel with at least 4.5" backspacing. 35s are overkill for these trucks unless you're seriously off-roading and need extra clearance.

If it were me, I'd buy a nice 3" suspension lift from bilstein (5100) or OME and it would still clear 285s.

Good luck.

 

What he said ^^, if you are considering going offroad at all or in the near future at all, you might as well go full suspension lift. I'd aim for a 3.5" bs wheel, you'd probably need to run spacers with a 4.5 especially with 12.5" tires. You can fit 35s on 6" but like duststorm said, they are expensive and if they aren't for wheeling it's just not worth it. I think the max body lift you should do is 1" but I'd avoid those if you can. If your goal is to just have a big truck with big tires to look cool or whatever, then yea 6" with 35s would look cool, but that's about all itd do; look cool lol. But also keep in mind a db lift is hard to come back from as it involves some fabrication to make it work and provides almost no offroad benefits. Let us know which route you go, and do what you wanna do with your truck, we are just offering advice and opinions to consider

 

Yea I think 35s may be too much also. Just wondering what might fit. Does anyone make around a 4 inch instead of going all out with 6? Or would the 33 look good with 6? Think that would look better with 33s? Just throwing out ideas to see what the best route is. Yea I agree the BLs look worse but I've seen a couple and their not totally horrible I think.

 

285/75 on a good 3" suspension look best. I have 3" ome and 265/75 and it still doesnt look bad. Id say 265/75 for offroad (more flex room) and 285/75 for more road driving. These little trucks start to look funny as can be with a huge lift on them oh and dont do more than 1" body lift. I did it for my GFs 4runner and i can say from experience the steering shaft spacer is a pain to put on and alot of things start to get maxed out like the fuel filler neck ect.

 

you can do a 3" suspension like old man emu and then do a 1" body lift to get 4". then throw a 33 on there and yea that'd look good. the problem with lifting these trucks is that they are IFS so you can only go so high until you get some really bad angles on your driveshaft and CVs.

 

4" lifts are made especially for prerunners. There may be a 4" DB lift but I'm not sure.

Keep in mind if you go past 3" of suspension lift, your CV axles will wear super quick.

 

Right now I'm running 16x8 Mickey Thompson classic wheel with 265/75. Only 2in on the suspension and no rub whatsoever. That's why if I go morelift I would really want to fit 33s. Maybe 12.50 or even 11.50

 

33s will fit on stock suspension so you can fit them with a 2 or 3" lift easy. You will need some 1.5" spacers though. I run 16x8 xd Hoss wheels with 4.5" bs and did alot of messurements with a ruler and caliper to see how big a spacer i would need to ever run 33s (285s)

 

OME lift- http://toyteclifts.3dcartstores.com/Old-Man-Emu-Tacoma-suspension_p_225.html
1" body- http://toyteclifts.3dcartstores.com/1-Body-Lift-Kit-for-955-04-Tacoma_p_184.html
U-bolts - http://toyteclifts.3dcartstores.com/UB-U-Bolts-with-hardware_p_9.html
ex bracket- http://toyteclifts.3dcartstores.com/FK21--OME-Exhaust-Bracket-Kit_p_167.html

I think thats all you'd need, You might need UCA's but I think you can get away with the stock ones

 

That's what I've heard about the Cv axles being at too much of an angle. But already with 2 in the front they're barely past level. But idk. The 6 has dif drops which gets that alignment back though right.

 

whats the bs on those?

 

4in even. 0.00 offset

 

Im not positive but I think you'd need spacers to run a 12.5, Im rubbing with 4.5"bs stock wheels and 11" wide tires on a 3" lift. plus I'm just a few millimeters from my UCAs and they aren't even stock

 

Yea I figured it would rub the UCA because it's close now. But when I go higher I want to go with a 16x10 with the same backspace if it'll fit.

 

For the love of god don't do a 3" body lift. EVER.

If you're going to wheel with it, don't even do a 1" bl. All BL's do is raise your cg without adding any sort of suspension performance (travel, ground clearance) and make all sorts of issues with bumper alignment, shifters, etc... Don't stack lifts either.

If I'm perfectly honest, 35's are useless for trucks that see 10% dirt (or even 50% dirt), unless the point is to ruin your gas mileage by spending a bunch of money just to get them to fit (giant lifts, re-gearing, drive line extensions, cutting fenders, etc...).

35's have their use (i.e. rock crawlers). But if you want to wheel with your truck, I mean actually wheel with it, not just throw mud while wearing an oily tank top and a camo trucker hat (I grew up in "the hills" so I'm allowed to say that, lol), even the 6" lifts like Fabtech aren't much good for off-road since they don't really increase your wheel travel, and just make your truck *higher* you don't want a high center of gravity for wheelin'). Get a long travel kit (Total Chaos, etc...) or go solid axle if you're going to crawl with it. "real" performance lifts include uni-ball A-arms,

If you're really desperate for 35's, the Fabtech runs like $2400, and that still utilizes the stock front springs, includes relatively cheap shocks, and you still need to re-gear, extend the drive line, get the tires/wheels, etc... You're looking at like $4k+...

Being in high school with strict parents (as you say), I can't imagine they'd be okay with you spending that kind of cash on your truck, just to fit 35's. If you are working part time at a Taco Bell or a grocery store, just throw out the idea of 35's.

All you need for 33's is a 3" lift and maybe a hammer for the "pinch weld mod", like others said. IMO, your best bet for the money would be something like the Bilstein 5100's and an add-a-leaf or shackles in the back (kit uses your oem springs). Out the door probably $400 if you install yourself (rent a coil spring compressor from Auto Zone or whatever for free). The 5100's are a great and very popular option (I have the 5100's in mine). Price goes up from there. All-Pro makes a suspension kit that's new coil-overs, add-a-leaf in the back and new shocks (3" lift) for about $1200, if your leaf pack is "w" shaped, consider the "pro" kit for $1500 that comes with a whole new rear leaf pack. Then you start getting into external reservoir coil-overs (Icon, Fox, etc...) that run $2k for just the front coil-overs.