Double cab drop

Ok so i have an 01 double cab and i want to do a 3/4 drop on it. i dont wanna bag it and i have spintech exhaust thats dual out and the driver side pipe goes through the leafs so i wanted to know if that was gonna be a problem. Any suggestions or opinions welcome. please

 

Also was looking around at some other sites and hearing i may have to either replace or swap ball joints for the control arms? And does it matter if its a 6 lug or 5 lug. if it does mines a 6 lug.

 

So far, all I've found is if you wanna drop a DC your best bet is to do a 5-lug frame swap. If you were to find a way to lower w/o frame swapping, your exhaust would have to be chopped up some, best thing would be to dump at axle. Me and some other guys on here believe that the furthest down a 4x4 could go is ~2.5" and not suffer CV bindings ( kind of like lifting a truck yet inverted). You might be able to do a Spring under axle in the rear or remove leafs for the rear setup. For the front, you could get shorter coils.
Feel free to read through these links, might be of some help:
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/street-trucks/136911-just-throwing-idea-out-there.html
http://www.customtacos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146087

 

ok so if i do a 2/3 drop i wont have to do a frame swap? imma keep looking around and asking to see if dropping a double cab is even possible. thanks

 

Go over to customtacos.com and search. There is a lot more info on lowering over there than here.

 

he has a prerunner though so he has no cv angle to worry about. right?

 

Correct.

 

don't drop it you'll just ruin a perfectly good truck

 

Drop?

 

I wouldn't frame swap it.if anything just replace the front half of the frame from a 2wd base Tacoma.

 

^that