Tacoma Prerunner 2wd lift (Some advice needed)

I have a 2015 Tacoma Prerunner 2wd with 5.5 lift. I have Maxtrac spindles 4” and Bilstein 5100 on 0 with OME 883 springs. I want to lower it a bit, but I don't know what would be my best option here. I'm thinking of, options 1, Leave the Maxtrac and put the original springs back on the Bilsteins for a total of 4“ or option 2, which would be to remove the spindles and buy some OME 885's that give 3” to the Prerunner. But I don't know if they would be too stiff or not. By the way, I have JBA UCAs. I'm looking to lower it a bit and also put some negative camber on the tires. I hate the positive camber on these Tacomas. They look silly from the front! So, I'm keeping the JBA to deal with caster.

 

Option 1 all day everyday.

Option 1 = 4" Lift and near stock alignment geometry and you won't even need those JBAs anymore.

Option. 2= 3" Lift with a stiff ride and sketchy bumpsteer.

 

That's what I thought! Thank you for replying! Now, I wonder if with the Bilstein @ 0 and with the stock springs if my JBA UCAS would work? I want to go for negative camber like I had before, but I don't know if with the maxtrac's alone keeping the oem suspension geometry would be too much caster.

 

Why do you want negative camber?

Caster being more adjustable is part of the reason for aftermarket UCAs. Why do you think you'd have too much caster?

 

I hate the look of these tacomas with the camber in specs. I usually call for positive camber. JBA UCAs come with a high caster out of the box. I am playing with my suspension. I lowered the truck from 5.5“ (Maxtrac + Bilsteins OME 883) to 1.5” (OME 883) and now intend to remount the maxtrac's to go for 4” (Bilsteins + Stock springs).

 

Option1. Just set camber to 0.

 

The JBA are high caster, so, I think that even at 0 camber, caster could be around 3 degree. Is that too much caster if Maxtrac are considered as not have any lift at all? Or am I wrong with that fact?

 

3* caster is fine. I run 4.5*. 3* on what would be stock geometry cause of the spindles would drive well.

 

I don't know what to think, man! I just received this replay from the JBA customer service:
"That`s correct, the lift spindles do not change the geometry of the upper arms and our High Caster arms will not work well with them"

Also from the Maxtrac guys:
"I would think they could very well have too much caster yes. Since the truck will essentially be "stock" geometry"

But I don't know how correct this information is. You can't always trust in customer service knowledge.

 

Since both JBA and Maxtrac are saying the same thing, I’d go ahead and remove them and put back OE ucas or JbAs w/o caster and have your alignment guy set the caster on the high end of factory specs which is 2.4 or 2.8 .

 

That would make the caster even more positive, right or not? I think my only option is to leave the 883 and the Maxtrac with 5.5 lift as is or get some OME 885s that would give 3” to the Prerunner, either way I can keep the JBAs.

 

No. If you remove the high caster jbas and just run an oe coil on zero. You just use factory alignment specs. When you say go to 885s are you removing the maxtrac spindles? Or gonna have the truck at 7.5” of lift. ToyTec has 3” lift coilI and it’s not stiff at all imo. They make a complete coil assembly that’s 3” lift with 5100. That what I have on my prerunner.

 

Yes, I meant by removing the Maxtrac spindles and replacing the original ones. Then lift it up with the Bilstein's at 0 and the OME 885's.
OME 883, 884 and 885 are supposed to have the same spring rate. Right now I have OME 883 with Bilstein at 0. I moved recently from FL to TX, so, money is kind of tight right now.

 

If you do the 885s , yes just keep the jbas and align. Since the original spindles. Where in Tx are you?