Kansas City Tacoma Crew - 816/913

Where you nerds at? It's Monday and I'm at work with nothing to do. Help me plan my lift kit.

 

I don't think I could care any less about work today. Nearly impossible to be here.

I don't understand much about how these lifts work yet. My experience in suspension is from doing the opposite...lowering.

I don't get how there are spacer lifts that make the truck ride rougher. Why would you jam a spacer in between the spring mounts and preload that thing? I thought most spacers went on top of upper spring mount just lifting the truck up on same spring distance. More or less a lift block for the leafs in back. Wtf do I know. Not the lift I would go with though.

I need to get some better visuals of how these struts and springs work and what values you get from what lifts and such. I don't get the Bilsteins with notches. I'm more visual. Would probably make sense if I had one in front of me.

 

Well, I would probably do the OME lift with dakar leaf springs. No spacers.

Unless the other guys can tell me if Bilsteins 5100 gives me 3 inches.

 

Bilstein 5100s give a max of 3" on aftermarket coils. 3" is the magic point where UCAs are a must.

I have Bilstein 5100s on my truck, but I'm rocking stock coils still so I'm only getting like 2-2.5 inches of lift currently, also because I don't have aftermarket UCAs.

 

I'd probably do a 2" and a 1" larger tire. Gain 2.5 that way if my math is correct.

 

If the everything goes right over the next couple months, UCA's could be purchased too.

 

i prob should i was coughing and hacking for a few days

 

i run bilstien 6112s on my truck they are stronger then the 5100s and can get about 2.5 with the springs the come with zero clue what it will do when i get the 700s installed i had ome and ripped it off mine was poorly installed on the truck from the old owner. they are sitting in the garage actually lol

 

even bought hd springs for them on accident instead of the ones i got recently for the 6112s

 

Too expensive.

I have rent and bills to pay.

 

6112s are not much more man...

 

To you, maybe.

I don't have have much more to spend. 5100's or OME are perfectly fine to me, it seems. Maybe more in the future if I'm succeeding where I want to be in my career.

 

for me even back then when i bought my suspension i had a different job got paid way less i just saved up is all took me a year to do it back then

 

Congratulations.

I'm making potential sales to be able to get me a lift kit, AAL's, and UCA's all in one go. I don't need bigger and better now. I need capability for reasonable prices with the commission I may earn.

 

just saying man save up it pays off. the 5100 is fine but im not fan of how twiggy the things are

 

That's you, not me.

Don't tell me how to spend my money, lol.

Like I tell you all the time, buy it for me if that's what you want me to have.

 

not trying to if it comes off that way sorry just giving insight with lifts that i have experience with since im kinda the only one chatting atm

 

5100s are good for what they do and affordable for what I need. I don't plan on making my truck a big tank, I want to maintain the look of the 2nd gen as much as I can. So I don't really need strong shocks right now. Maybe further down the road if I'm more financially situated.

https://www.bilsteinlifts.com/shop/...jxvk2nS7sZ22o_v0nry6p2w818s44zpwaAhj1EALw_wcB

 

how much is the ome kit with the dakars? thats what i had on the truck but keep the dakars on