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New TRD PRO lift kit option?

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by Aliosha323, Feb 5, 2020.

  1. Feb 5, 2020 at 7:36 AM
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    Aliosha323

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  2. Feb 5, 2020 at 7:38 AM
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    velogeek

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    Blocks and spacers are no bueno if you at all care about ride quality or performance. For a mall crawler they'll be fine but I have no idea how good the price is.
     
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  3. Feb 5, 2020 at 7:38 AM
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    Atl-atl

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    Read the notes, "this is not a spacer lift"

    Look at the pictures, this is definitely a spacer lift.
     
  4. Feb 5, 2020 at 7:43 AM
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    TRDProOne

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    False advertising!!! Apply the $350 towards a REAL suspension lift kit if you must get your Pro higher off terra firma.
     
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  5. Feb 5, 2020 at 7:44 AM
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    Shellshock

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    Put on a real lift kit, not crappy spacers.

    I’ll take your factory pro suspension off your hands.
     
  6. Feb 5, 2020 at 8:00 AM
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    CaptainBart45

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    You could buy those spacers and blocks for quite a bit less money. Wheelers has 1/2" spacers for $9.50 each. 1/2" spacer will give you 1" lift. That would be the way I would do it, if I was gonna.
     
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  7. Feb 5, 2020 at 8:06 AM
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    Let me spend almost $50,000 on a Pro, then spend pennies on hockey pucks and blocks. SMH I never understand that logic.
     
  8. Feb 5, 2020 at 8:10 AM
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    You spend all your money on the Pro and don't have enough left over for the actual good stuff.
     
  9. Feb 5, 2020 at 8:11 AM
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    Nailed it end thread
     
  10. Feb 5, 2020 at 10:07 AM
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    I've looked at it and I don't understand it. They claim it's not spacers, but in the pics, it's clearly spacers and blocks. I've read some good things about the Revtek 427ap kit, but even then it's still just spacers. I haven't done any offroading yet, but the Fox Pro suspension rides so nice that I can't see myself altering it in anyway.
     
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  13. Feb 5, 2020 at 11:48 AM
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    Most folks seriously overbuild their trucks and never actually use their fancy $5,000 Kings anyway..Nothing wrong with just wanting to add one inch of lift for one size up tires, it’s hardly gonna affect the ride at all so sit down mall crawlers
     
  14. Feb 5, 2020 at 1:09 PM
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  15. Feb 5, 2020 at 6:09 PM
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    I always read people talking about how bad a spacer lift kit is, but honestly what are the actual adverse effects of running such a kit (real world use)?

    - Consider me a newbie, school me.
     
  16. Feb 5, 2020 at 6:19 PM
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    LOL, who paid $5k for Kings
     
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    Couple examples of failure... not sure what they were doing to cause this but it has happened...

    damge from spacer lift1.jpg LPOR-SPACER-Lifts-FAIL.jpg

    I guess they thought they had Kings :burnrubber:
     
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  18. Feb 5, 2020 at 6:24 PM
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    Dr. Emmett Brown

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    This is definitely the result of a spacer lift ....oh yeah and jumping your truck 6 feet in the air along with not having the correct bump stops. But yeah definitely the spacers fault.
     
  19. Feb 5, 2020 at 6:27 PM
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    Dr. Emmett Brown

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    Look like the kit preloads the coils with a larger bottom perch? And then it has small spacers, which contradicts the diescription. Also the ride change is a lie because it will definitely change the ride by preloading the coils.
     
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  20. Feb 6, 2020 at 6:17 AM
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    Just do things the right way or don't do them at all. Stock is better than these dumb spacers.
     

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