Removing a lift kit

How do you adjust the rear axle? I've done many lifts and never found any cam bolts or adjusters to change thrust angle or anything.

 

That’s why my mechanic did my lift, I don’t have enough knowledge or skill. But when it was done it tracked beautifully at 80 mph

 

Because people all the time manage to remove the nut on the top of the coilover instead of the three bolts that hold it in place. Remove that thing and your day could be bad really fast. That warning is in all the coilover replacement instructions I've read.

 

I'm almost positive you can't adjust alignment on the rear.

 

It's not just a leveling kit. that spacer is maxing out your suspension, I'm betting. You gotta remember a spacer will add like double it's thickness in lift. It might even be more, I can't recall the correct calculation, but it's definitely more than the thickness of the spacer.

 

I just did some quick googling, and it sounds like you just need to make sure your bushings and stuff are in good shape, or they could let it out of spec.

it'd be different if we had track bars and coil springs, or a panhard bar keeping things centered.

 

Hey if you’re comfortable

 

Oh I'm comfortable...just not a fan of suggesting a service to someone if it isn't possible. If someone told a shop they wanted all 4 corners aligned and the shop charged $135 per axle and there is no way to align the rear, then they got taken advantage of. So the point of my question was to verify that 1-it isn't possible to align the rear axle and 2-if it is, spread the knowledge to others.

 

I quoted and deleted what I said a few times, it all came out as dicky

There is no adjustment of alignment in the rear for a Tacoma. I suppose that might change with the gen4 coil spring rear end models, but doesn’t change the fact that a 4 wheel alignment is not possible on the OPs vehicle.

 

So a guy comes on TW asking for information/suggestions, and I give mine. Sorry

 

Just curious, there’s no way to get the rear axle out of square/90* to the frame.?

 

There is a bolt head/pin on the bottom of the leaf pack that drops into a hole on the spring perch of the axle to hold the leafs in place... that basically serves as the alignment of rear axle. Not much adjustment there, but when you tighten up the ubolts there can be a tiny difference in adjustment fore/aft but not enough to affect anything. If the bolt head in the center of the leaf pack that sits in the perch was sheared off somehow, then that could cause some issues with misalignment of the axle if the ubolts were loose enough to allow any movement

 

Seems reasonable enough.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

If I’m not mistaken all alignments are four wheel alignments in that they use the front and rear measurements together. However there is no adjustment for the rear. Pretty sure the only way to change the rear is to replace parts. And since metal has memory it might involve replacing everything or it would likely want to go back where it was.

I’ll defer to @Bishop84 for more on this.

 

The easiest way to get out of square would be actual damage, in that case parts would need replaced. There is nothing to adjust, only fix.

 

I'm gonna peck my way over to the closest aeronautical engineering forum and see if I can help out any of the noobs..
brb...

 

If you look closely, there is one spacer above the coilover between the tophat and chassis, and another one between the spring and the tophat that is adding preload to the spring. Both should be removed to go back to stock. If I was going to leave one, I'd remove the preload spacer. That spring is going to be a pain to compress down.

 

So was my original post wrong-out of line, be glad to delete anything that anyone doesn’t like.

 

theres no rear adjustment on these. Mounting position of the axle is fixed.

 

Yes, you are correct! There is a preload spacer and a 1/4" spacer above the top hat. Good eye!