Official 5-Lug Picture Thread

The housings are stock but the headlights were 170 Most I've ever payed for headlights lol

 

Are you talking bulbs or the entire headlight assembly?

 

Has anyone ever done a 3” body lift and not messed with suspension for our 5 luggers? Thinking about a performance accessories 3” and 31/10.5r15s. But please tell me if this is a bad idea

 

3” body lifts arnt recomend for a number of reasons, mainly if you plan on every taking your truck off road

 

won't i still have better travel with only a body lift instead of compressing it more with strut spacers?

 

No your suspension will remain exactly the same all you get to do it put bigger tires

 

With the spacers we use it only really stiffens the suspension than remove travel. Also with a spacer/aal you gain more load capability. One thing to consider with a body lift is you have to extend some thing like your gas filler and steering column. For 31s I would suggest a spacer way more than a body lift.

Here's my travel with a 3" spacer and 235/75/r15 (the rear has a shackle flip and an aal )




Also spacer/aal lifts are wayyyyy cheaper lol

 

Body lifts while being a easy way to get a 3” lift isn’t really practical if you plan to ever off-road. It keeps all your suspension exactly the same but puts the body way higher changing your center of gravity as well as there is now more added leverage from the body on to the spacers which can cause them to break or twist doing hard off-roading. You also don’t achieve any added ground Clearance because you left the frame on the ground andjyst lifted the body. Lastly you will look dump because when you look at your truck from the side with a 3” body lift there will be a huge gap between the body and frame

You will also have to extend break lines, bumpers brackets, fuel neck, steering column, drop your radiator and im sure there is more

Now if you wanted to do something like a 1” body lift with suspension lift just to help clear the tires more then thats ok. A 1” body lift is about max you want to go

 

nice wheels

 

Enjoying the bro lean life in socal.

 

Poor dog, doesnt have a bed to ride around in lol

 

My taxo

 

Needs to be lower

 

She gets the passenger seat when I take her out.

 

Here is my before and after tires. I just got a set of Goodyear wrangler trail runner AT in 235/75r15. looking so much better than stock.

 

Looks good

 

Some new pics

 

NewMember. Aloha!
From the LowLife to the HIghLife, I love my new 2001 taco! Just using my truck for work & fishing. Starts up first crank!

223k
2wd 5 lug
2.4L Engine
leafspring under axle.
Fabtech:SpindleLift/AAL
New headlights, Grill, & hood
17" Lexus wheels 215/45r17
New shoes coming soon

 

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