Bilstein 5100's.... Want to go 1-2" higher... HELP!

Title says it all, I have 5100 bilstein's set at top hight. How do i got about lifting another inch or two. What complications will i run into? will it be as easy as adding a spacer on top of the strut? or body lift?

Thanks for all your help.

Jeremy

 

So ur sitting at 2.5. U could add a .25 spacer to each side. Anything else over that is not recommended.

 

Gotcha, not recommended meaning...??

 

Its not recommended if you want to keep your truck running in good working condition

 

Are you 2wd or 4wd?

 

Anything higher than 3" puts too much stress on your CV boots and stock UCA's...Overall not a good idea.

To go higher than 3" you need to start looking at dropped bracket lifts.

 

If you are 2wd you can go spindles

if 4wd , you can go about 3 1/4" max or go to a drop bracket lift to go higher

 

This is what I was getting at tanks OZ

 

I am 4x4. Drop brackets.... Im sorry for being a newb... anyone have a link to some reading up i can do on it?

Say i just do the spacers, will i have to worry about the lift/alignment?

Jeremy

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/suspension/11282-tacoma-lift-faq-guide-read.html

Read this it will help.

 

You don't wanna stack lifts

 

I didn't mean lift, i meant just spacing the wheels/tire out.

 

I'm not a DB lift expert. look up pro-comp and fabtec 6" lifts. I think rough country makes a 4" too.

With the spacers, on top of the 2.5, you'll probably have alignment issues, on top of stressed CV boots.

EDIT: didnt see you reply to oz about the spacers.

 

Oh , sorry

Yes you can add wheel spacers , you shouldn't need to re-align it for that .

 

Thank you for the input.

Well i guess i will start there and see how it is. Any recommendations for spacers?

J

 

Lots of guys on here running these

 

Spidertrax spacers are good