Friend needs advice on long road trip with lift

My buddy at work a recent tacoma owner bout a lifted tacoma this weekend, it has 42000 miles on it, all the maintence is up to date, only concern I had (he didnt ask my advice when purchasing) was he has the toytec 3 inch spacer lift on 285's. He mentioned driving home for the holidays and is now concerned about it when I mentioned the issues with spacers. (He has ordered the billie set up but is backordered as of right now). It's about a 12 hour drive/1600 miles, all highway, he just wants to make sure its safe to drive a spacer lifted truck for that trip. Any thoughts/input? Thanks.

 

It'll will be fine

 

this unless the whole way there is all washboard and whoops....then he's screwed

 

Dang, you guys drive fast.

 

If that were the case with spacers you would be putting your life at risk going down the street to the store. There are thousands of trucks out there with spacers. He'll be fine if he drove across the country too.

 

I'd be a bit more worried about his tires holding up to 12 hours at 133mph, but the lift will be fine.

 

As long as the road isn't like this , he's good...


http://youtu.be/oAClblDN6nk?t=1m9s

 

Even though spacer lifts arent the way to go he will be fine with driving it so tell him not to sweat it.

 

Sorry, its 12 hours/800 miles each way and so 24 hours of driving, totaling 1600 miles.

I figured he'd be fine. But ever since I introduced him to the spacer no no's he's been fretting driving the truck even though he dosent offroad.

Thanks guys!

 

I don't know why people blow the whole spacer thing out of the water like this. They act like it's something someone made in their garage to put on the truck. Jeeze. I'll go ahead and say it. You're not gonna die cause you have spacers on a truck!

 

Toytec spacer lifts are great for highway driving and light off road. I've installed a ton with no problems.

 

Spacers and highway =

Spacers and trail =

 

False. Meteors/asteroids/comets large enough to cause mass extinction are detected by NASA months in advance. However, with the discontinuation of the shuttle program, humanity can no longer send oil rig workers up there to blow it up.

 

I wouldn't take a spacer lift off the interstate or highway.

I wouldn't take a spacer lift to a parking lot with speed bumps.

 

^Really? http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

 

what if I made my own spacers?

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/su...get-friendly-lift-out-there-i-e-cheapest.html

 

Guess you're up shit creek then.


He mentioned Toytec though.

He was truly a unique individual. A pioneer of sorts.

 

only 5/16" worth of lift on the driver side and 1/4" on the passenger side to correct for driver side lean with set of trim packers 10mm(driver side) and 7.5mm(passenger side)

 

Trucks gonna blow up. Truth!