lifting a 1980 toyota longbed pickup

hey my name is grant. was referred by my good buddy jake(panda jerk). im picking up a 2wd 1980 toyota longed pickup and i was wondering if any of you knew anything about lifting that year of truck? i know spacer lifts and body lifts i should stay away from. are there any alternatives to those?

 

yo grant you made it over!! thats legit.

bunch of good guys on here with really valuable info

 

Welcome to TW man!

Wish I could help ya, but there's someone here who will know what to tell ya. Best of luck! Can't wait to see some before and after pictures.

 

depends on what you plan on doing with it.....

 

i want to get a 3 inch lift front and back to start

 

not much yet its just a prerunner that he wants it to look good.

 

i just want to fix it up and make it look sick

 

then 3 inch would be fine...maybe throw on some 35's or something like that...Now this is just my opinion, and i could be wrong, but if you not planning on doing any "actual" off-roading, then i wouldn't really worry about a lift more than 3 inches for a lift. Bigger tires will make it look real real good. But then again i dont really know much about 4 runners....my cousin has one, i'll ask him what he thinks tomorrow....but he did most of the work himself (homemade) you know what i mean...lol

 

any chance you could post some pictures?

 

I had a 85 pre runner with a 3 inch sup lift and 3 inch body had 31's on it was sick but a ruff ride because you have to cranck the tortion bars all the way to the top the back is eazy flip it and a 3 inch shackel! Keep in mind it will be bouncy!

 

of mine or my cousin's?...i'm assuming my cousins.....but he doesn't live around me... but if you want pics of mine, i wont be able to post any till the weekend.....
sorry

 

1980? There are tons of stuff to do to those trucks. You need to find yourself a solid front axle and a gear-drive transfercase. Check out www.marlincrawler.com for all the parts you need.

 

Ya you can put 35's if you take off the fenders haha!

 

Well I was originally asking 1980piledriver for some pictures, but if you've got easy access to pictures of your cousin's that would be great too.

 

ok my bad....

 

x2 Marlin crawler will have everything you would want

 

its cool man, i didn't make myself very clear

 

I would think that you should be able to run a kit like an AllPro or Marlin, but it really depends on how much you want to dump into the truck. also what you plan on doing with it. for a minimum lift you can just put some longer shackles on. but if you want to go with new springs then i would say prob these

its a truck, they didnt start making 4runners till late 84.

31s with 6" of lift i bet that looked like crap, also if you had an 85 they did not have tortion bars, tortion bars are an IFS part, IFS started in 86.

 

lol...sorry about that... i am new to this site and it gets confusing sometimes.......wrong thread...lol

 

Here Are Some Pics Of My Old Work Truck Had It Slammed At First With Some Gold BBS Rims Then Went Up! 3 Inch Sup Lift And 3 Inch Body Lift With Tsl Super Swamper 31's I Loved That Truck!