Cv axle angle after lift

I would watch your upper ball joints and upper arm cause the lift is gonna wear the ball joints more. If at 2.5inch lift should get some aftermarket arms

 

Here is the deal with boots in my opinion.

lift is installed on a first gen Tacoma typically after the truck has some years - the boots are old and hard - not ripping but rubbing. Since they are hard no problem but when they fail it’s due to cracking ( my cracked in the same spot) some people get many years after a lift. My truck was lifted for about 8-10 years and about 100k miles on lifted original CVs

now your next awesome problem - your new super soft boots will wear really quickly. The inter boot is really the biggest problem. Mine had 6 miles and already started to wear a groove.

options - lower truck, diff drop. Boot slide mod.

I have yet to do either - still trying to figure out what to do. Since you just installed the lift - you need an alignment anyway so lowering the rig is and easier fix, but if you have big tires they will rub. Ps get a Reman OEM CVs from the dealer.


seems some 2.5 lifts have crazy CV axles and some don’t. All trucks with 2.5 lifts should have same angles. I think it more of 2.5 inches higher than truck was before the lift - not 2.5” over stock original stock height.

 

Absolutely. A diff drop kit comes with spacers and longer bolts. Just support the diff with a floor jack and remove the bolts, lower it, add new spacers/bolts. SHould take like 10 minuntes.

 

OP - since a bunch of folks have mentioned it (and I agree), here's a step-by-step on rebooting your CVs. Same thing happens to a lot of people when installing a new lift for the first time. It's just the old boots getting put into a new (unusual for them) position, and ripping.

How-to: Rebooting a Tacoma CV Axle
has links to parts, and step-by-step with photos

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