Official 5-Lug Picture Thread

The day i lifted my 5 lugger

 

I have a 3” spaced up front and my 31’s scrub. Wtf

 

Does the air rite actually lift the rear up ? I’m looking at buying it because my rear end sags big time.

 

This '04 is all stock with 255,000 miles and still runs good. It's a spare vechicle and good to have around for misc purposes

 

Well I started off trimming plastic and it rubbed then I beat the pinch weld flat ish and it rubbed so I said to hell with it and I took a sawzall to it and it doesn’t rub unless I’m wheeling hard

 

Yeah, the rear airbags are nice, they can lift it up like 3 maybe 4 inches if you really inflate it. I would only recommend the Firestone ones cause I’ve hears horror stories about knockoff ones that may be a little cheaper. Right now I’m on stock leafs and shocks but I’m getting some bilstiens from a buddy who just lifted his TRD off road soon

 

How does it pull the 33’s?

 

I love my 5 lug, but I wish it was easier too order parts for. All the websites have 6 lug parts posted too fit the 5 lug. I send the front struts back 3 times before I got the right ones. Still waiting for my rims too get back from powder coating. Pulling the back bumper cover off, wire wheel it, rust convert it. Filler primer coating, light sanding and then I think I'll just spray it with truck bed liner. But it's a fun make work project.

 

that’s funny
I’m on stock gears still and it sucks but I’m tryin to swap my 3rd member with an elocker with 4.56 gears from easy coast gear supply

 

Just a heads up the Toyota elocker diff is a different size from our stock one. Not sure if that's the path you were thinking but figured I should give you a heads up. It's why I'm 6 lug in the rear and 5 lug up front. Had to do the full axle swap

 

I thought we had an 8” rear diff, this is what I was thinking of doing https://eastcoastgearsupply.com/i-131078-8-tacoma-fj-cruiser-4runner-e-locker-3rd.html

 

How much did this cost you

 

So the trd off-road come with elockers and that diff is 8". Technically all the other 2nd gen Tacoma's are called 8.4" I got a whole elocker axle and attempted to swap the shafts/drums around but the 5 lugs were short by .5" hence becoming 6 lug rear. Now if you want a locker for the 8.4" you can get an arb, a Detroit locker and I think there's a few others.

We have this one

 

The kit is like 300 bucks but it was already on my truck when I bought it

 

what’s the offset of those rims ?
I want to run 33s too but my current rims have a positive offset

 

So, for reference, a 3.73 would work well with 235's? probs won't happen for a LONG time with me, but it sucks to have to drops to 3rd to stay around 70 mph driving up north here in az lol. Based on the info from the area in my VIN I already have 3.58's on my manual too

 

I probably wont have to at all tbh. It isn't too harsh on the truck to be hovering in gear around 3.5k- 3.8k while on a climb right? I'm used to low geared trucks so hovering that high makes me worry. (came from a v8 ram 2nd gen)

 

How happy are you with the results of the lift?

 

The offset is -19mm but you’ll need a 3mm or 1/4 inch hub centric wheel spacer to clear the front calipers. GO 33’s YOU WONT REGRET IT

 

so if my wheels have a positive offset i need spacers, correct? I love your truck by the way it’s literally my dream to have mine like yours.