Machining a coil spacer down?

For whatever reason, I am needing a 1" spacer for a 4Runner. Seem's no one makes them. My plan is to buy a 2" or 2.5" and machine it down. Is this safe?

 

Where is the spacer going?

 

Front.

 

Body mount?

 

If you have the means to do it properly, I dont see why there would be an issue.

 

Nah. Same place you would use a leveling kit. I don't want the full height of a level kit.

 

Why don't you just adjust your 5100s?

 

This is going on a 5th gen 4Runner.

 

Are they not adjustable for 5th gens? Not much exp with 5th gens.

 

Did you Google 1” spacer lift? I hit Daystar .75”, 1”, 1.5” for 4Runner.

 

My apologies, thought your user description was what you had on the 4runner.

 

Yep. I found a bunch of smaller ones for older 4Runner's. All I see for newer is 2.5"

 

Now remember that a spacer that claims to lift 2.5 inches is actually 1.25 thick. So you would have to mill off .625 and even with that it will still get you too 1.25 of lift in the front. Someone correct me if wrong.

 

I am sure there is some math to it. I don't know if cutting it in half, cuts the lift height in half.

 

A half inch spacer nets 1 inch lift.

 

Correct. I'll find me a set of Daystars and take them to my machine man.

 

I didn't know the spacers went on a 1:2 ratio like that. So a 4" spacer would equal 8" of lift if A-arm is x amount of inches long.