BOSS suspension or TOYTEC ultimate

My sincere advice is to stay away from the Falken Wild Peak/Rocky Mountain. The siping only goes down about 4/32" and disappears making the tire look bald after 5-10k miles. Some wet traction is lost, but the main drawback of this is largely aesthetic. Just a heads-up...

 

Any advice on a good a/t under 200 per tire?

 

What size do you want?

 

285/75/16

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/wheels-tires/244985-cooper-atp-review.html
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/d...ze.do?sortBy=prca&ar=75&fqs=true&rd=16&cs=285

 

Appreciate the heads up man, I'll consider it!

 

Cooper Discoverer ATP. As far as hybrid tires go, this is absolutely going to deliver the most bang for your buck in that size. Note that this tire is in the process of being phased out and replaced by the Discoverer AT3 (which is what my Taco will be graced with once the lift is installed), so check on both when you actually buy, as both are available. With either, you're going to get above average offroad performance with very good ride quality on-road. Depending on driving habits, they're also relatively long-lasting compared to other A/T (General Grabber A/T2, Falkens, anything made by Nitto).

 

Mine was nose high too. Adjustment was easy, thread down .25" for a .5" drop I believe. I took before and after measurements and did some driving to let it settle too. Still high after driving.

 

How about an updated review? Still happy with your BOSS kit?

 

Sure thing man! I've got about 4-5 thousand miles on it since install city and ALOT of highway miles still haven't really off roaded it yet though except for some rough dry dirt road if you call that off roading (my stock tires are too wore out for that!)

So far I'm quite happy with the ride and under Normal driving condition I find it hard to tell the difference from stock but at lower speeds you can really feel the stiffness especially going over speed bump type obsticles faster than they are intended to go over. And on that note, the rough dirt roads I mentioned above, trying to go fast on said road it got a little rough so I wouldn't recommend them for any crazy high speed desert driving like the folks out west do!

The front end wasn't adjusted at all upon install but over the course of driving it since it's installed I've noticed the springs have settled a little bit and I need to adjust them up some to set it back level but that's expected with any lift I'm sure. Oh and the Dakars squeak a little but we already know that!

I don't have anything but the stock suspension to compare it too but overall I'm quite happy with the quality of the lift and would reccomend it to anyone looking for a quality comfortable lift. I opted for all the add ons the lift included like the Dakars and UCAs so whether you got just the standard options for 11-12 hundred bucks or spend a little over two thousand on all the bells and whistles the kit offers I'd say it's money well spent!

 

That's good info. Thanks.

 

thanks op. I have had the boss front coils for awhile now waiting on rear leafs to put every thing on. I was unsure of it but its good to read you how much you like them. truck will see about the same road conditions as yours.

 

Is it difficult to adjust the Boss coilovers?

 

I finally adjusted them for the first time a couple weeks ago. after I measured and got the truck in the air, I found I needed to drop the sway bar so I could get the wrench in and actually be able to turn it and I first it was a bitch and I literally couldn't turn it at all just using the provided wrench but after I slipped about a four foot pipe over the end and got some good leverage it made it exponentially easier, granted because of the limited space I had to turn the wrench I could only really get about a 1/8 turn in at a time but slowly and surely it got there. Once I figured out the best way to do it wasn't difficult at all.

I need to go adjust them again because all I did was get the "taco lean" out of it been driving it around to see how it will sit back down and now I need to get it level with the rear.

hope that helped!!

 

OP is the lift you are running the Eibach all around? About to order the Boss suspension with add a leaf/Chaos UCAs and wanted to know if you had the 5100s or the Eibachs. How do you like the suspension overall? Saw some back and forth between Toytec and Icons...have heard great things about Toytec and haven't really looked into Icons.

 

I didn't realize Eibach made shocks.

 

Nope, talked to the guys over at Toytec VIA phonecall and they said it is now Eibachs all around with the Boss suspension, no longer 5100s/Eibach combo (I think they said you have the option to run 5100s with the ultimate lift kit but Boss is running all Eibach).

 

Thanks for clearing that up. I edited my post....

 

I'm going to call again today just to make sure it is Eibachs all around, but I'm like 90% sure that is what they said-Ill give an update once I do. I'm hoping it will be a good suspension for what I do. I don't beat the piss out of the truck at all..in fact, it's 14 months old this month and I have only put 5300 miles on it haha. I travel a lot for work so its a garage queen most of the time. Basically I want something that when I do drive it, I want to know that if I wanted to offroad a little, I could. I come from the other side of things where lowering your vehicle is the thing to do. Eibach coils have always had a good rep on that side of the business so I don't see why going higher would make much of a difference in quality. Any input from anyone running this lift would be great. Ive heard more good then bad so I think I'm going to go with it but I just want to see what other thoughts are!

 

I've got the boss kit with the 10 leaf pack and total choas UCA's waiting for me to pull the trigger, how has it been so far? Any issues with it that we should be aware of?

I'm getting the frame replacement done in December, and I'm hoping to do the lift after that.