Best 2nd Tacoma lift on a high school budget?

I’m thinking about going bilstein 5100s if I set them to 2.5 and added an aal would I need to replace the UCAs

 

Why don't you just leave it alone....I suspect your 10 year old truck will get you almost anywhere you want to fish.
Spend the dough on a memorable fishing adventure.

 

This is the best advice in this thread

 

Check your rust situation. A 2” spacer lift and camber kit in my last truck turned into strut assemblies, upper and lower control arms, hub assemblies and axles, and went from 200 to over 600 bucks very quickly, even with some used parts. I was driving an XTerra at the time and the hardware was all so rusted that a lot of it needed to be cut off and replaced. If I’d known I was replacing the entire front end I would have spent the extra 300 bucks on all new parts and just done a Titan front end swap.

 

Big difference in 'love to' and 'need to', as in clearance required for usage.

Not uncommon! So spend carefully, and always remember debt is the enemy.

That confirms no lift is required.

Agreed. And if it doesn't, it is more likely to be a tire than lift issue. Or driver experience/skill.

 

Yes. Depending on tire size. 285s? 100% add new UCAs.

Honestly if you're only going light offroad and just for looks. Really look into 3rd gen offroad takeoffs. They can be had for super cheap and give ~1" of lift up front.

It's all about what YOU want to achieve. Just keep in mind the higher you go with our trucks the more parts you will have to change, i.e. UCAs, wheel bearings sooner, driveline vibrations, etc.

I'll give you my advise. I had about a full OME 3" lift kit with expensive tires and nice wheels and truck got totalled. I lost money because I didnt take it all off because I sold all my stock suspension and wheels and tires. Hindsight means swap that crap. Anyways. I bought all of that and it looked great but I hardly went offroad and I lost alot of money for nothing. My taco still looks hot AF and only spent 100$ on 2018 offroad suspension.

No one cares about your truck like you do. Do what you want but DO YOUR RESEARCH and understand what you're getting into before you do. Good luck

 

Just finished the lift 5100s @ 1.75 and 1.5 add a leaf.

 

On my Truck I didn’t have to. Also I appreciate all the advice you guys gave.

 

Looks good. Were the alignment cams seized?

 

Surprisingly not! There was no major issues with installing them and thank god there was no extra things I needed to replace.

 

Nice. Thanks for the update.