Bilstein 5100 .85 Before/After Picture Request

.85" with tsb rear springs. Cap and gear are probably 300 lbs. The last picture is on the most level ground. 265/70/16

 

That does look great, and I am very jealous of your surroundings, 2500 mi from me, unfortunately. Damn east coast so densely populated.

I will be adding air bags or sumo springs, as I have a cap and often haul Tools and materials, and when we travel we load up. Why did you go with airbags?

That’s my truck! Ha, if only it were black. Thanks man, pretty much the exact imagery I was looking for

 

Stock in the rear .85 up front.

 

Air bags were the recommendation at Off Road Warehouse to solve the harsh ride/ too soft springs on my 2005. I added them to my 2010 after a few years, as it had better springs than the '05. They are great as I can adjust them as needed rather than have a hard ride all the time that heavier leaf springs would create.

 

Thanks! In those pics I had Treadwright Warden AT’s 265/75/16. They are re-tread’s and BFG AT clones.. They were good, tread wear wasn’t the best but a good tire for the price. Have the TW Claw Mud Terrains on now and same thing - not great tread wear but good tire overall. Getting Duratrac’s in the next month or two.. Good luck!

Current Pics:

 

Looks so good, thank you!

 

5100s all around. Front set on .85. Factory coils, factory leafs (3+1). 265/75r16. Thought I'd post pics to help anyone trying to visualize this setup (this site has helped me with "visualizing" before buying). Probably got around 500 pounds in the back in this photo.

In the near future I'm going Eibach 2.5" coils with Billies set at 0 and progressive 2.5aal. And dreaming of a Pelfreybilt aluminum plate bumper

 

Look to be squatting a bit. Hope mine levels out when I get it. Right now my forward rake is pretty crazy.

 

@ETAV8R Here's my rig with the same set up but with no weight in the back. I'm hoping the 2.5 aal and 2.5 coil will pretty much preserve this stance, just higher and capable of carrying weight without too much sag. I don't mind if it ends up with factory rake, just higher all around.

 

Just ordered my setup yesterday, will share the results when it gets installed in the next few weeks

 

Looking forward to it!

 

David K.
Are you running stock coil springs in the front and have you done anything to the rear suspension other than adding the air bags?

Thanks!

 

Stock springs front and back. Other than the 5100s all around and the Ride Rite air bags in back, nothing else changed. I got the recall for new back springs, but the dealer will not replace the airbags after the change and I have a problem with that. It is my mod to stop bottoming out and level the truck and the springs changing should not cost me extra to put the air bags back on.

 

I wonder if the dealer could just give you the new leafs and you could have someone else install including the bags?

 

Not a chance... you could never install them or sell them on eBay and if something bad happened with your truck from a broken leaf, well they think you will sue Toyota!

 

I recently added billy 5100's with ome 884 springs. From what I've read, at the 0 setting on the billy's the ome springs will add 2" of lift. Is this correct?

 

Is .85 on the Billy's the same as the 2nd or 3rd ring setting?

 

The stock setting is no lift, the first ring position up is .85" (I guess in your wording that would be the second position?).
The next two are 1.75" and 2.5" lift.

 

Ok, thanks. You answered my question

 

I just had 5100s installed all the way around and the improvement is incredible. This thing rides like a caddy now. I set the fronts at .85 to allow a little more clearance for my 265\75\16 Wildpeaks since I rubbed a little. I had the rear leaf TSB and pretty bad rake. Normal rake now. Looks stockish. No issues with driving, vibrations, or steering.

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