Stacking a leveling kit on 6” lift

I was wondering if it’s possible to add front spacers to make my truck level. I already have a 6” rough country lift on my 3rd gen 4WD Tacoma. I’ve spoken to other people about it. One person said anything over a 1” spacer will destroy my cv axel because it’s a 4WD? I’m not sure what my truck being 4WD has to do with anything but I have upper control arms and wanted to add a 2” spacer in the front to make the truck level, now I’m scared I might break something after what this guy told me. Any thoughts?

 

It will max out the control arms, meaning the arms will contact the coils, you'll also have crazy bad steering and cv angles.

The drop bracket lift you have addresses this well for 6" of lift, but you simply cannot and shouldnt go any higher.

 

Even if I just do a 1” spacer? I guess 1 inches is a lot….

 

So a 1” spacer acts as 2” of lift, look at your angles for arms and tie rods and imagine more stress.

 

If you go out and take a look at your Rough Country kit's drop brackets, you will notice that they drop down 3.25" from where the original control arm mounting location is. This means the 6" RC lift already incorporates 2.75 inches of "leveling" lift within it's design (which is already pushing the envelope in regard to your CV joint angles, anything over 2" is said to be asking for issues, and you're already ¾" past that).

Definitely a hard No on adding spacers to that. Better to lower the rear if you think it's too high back there (shorter lift blocks, or removing a leaf from your leaf packs).

 

what 4x4 junkie said. it isnt actually a 6" drop bracket lift. they are usually a 4" bracket already paired with a "leveling kit" just by adding the thickness of a spacer to the supplied strut spacer or shock itself. so yes adding another spacer on top is gona be hell on your front end components including your cv axle boots.

 

IMO No keep components happy.

 

Lower the rear. Then it will be level.

A few hundred lbs in the bed would visually demo that for you.

 

RC is garbage, they tend to sag a lot you might not even be at 6" anymore, I would start with a center to hub to fender measurement on all 4 corners while its parked on a flat surface. You might get away with a 1" increase in the front with not much of an ill effect. If you change the top hats to the KYB ones then you can def fit a 1/2" spacer on top of the top hat. Stock is 21"front and 22" rear.

The key things, are to make sure that you dont have cv axle binding at full droop, and to make sure that the ribs on the cv axles are not too extreme with rubbing against each other.