Planning on Long Traveling my toyota for christmas

If you want a quick, cheap 3" lift in the back, just put Firestone airbags. I installed them easily in 2 hours, got atleast 3-4 inches. Just be prepared for the rough ride! Doesn't help with the travel but it'll get it up there.

 

Make sure to beef up your idler arm if you don't buy that TC one. Those break very often on those older yotas. Sometimes on DR you will find a used one thats already beefed up.

 

Yea air bags are about the worst option for suspension. They're meant for load levelling.

 

Sing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth". But then insert words below
..........All I want for Christmas is my long tra-vel

 

Can somebody help me out with the rear? I have the front end of my truck down but can't figure out what I want to do with the rear. I don't want to hack my truck bed or anything like that. I was researching on the web and found an article in which they long traveled a toyota pickup and used a deaver mini pack kit which is pretty much a add- a-leaf. Based on the pictures it seems to have a good amount of flex in the rear and should give me 2-3 inches of lift. What do yall think?

 

the 3 leaf add packs will be better than nothing. the prob is your rear susp just ins't going to be able to keep up with the performance of the front when hitting whoops at good speed and it will start to "buck".

but, that AAL pack will help, as will some good 2.0 or 2.5 resi shocks

 

at about 37 seconds you'll see what i mean about the rear end "bucking"

you can also see that silly mohawk mike guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdiXZNtJ-dI

 

Ouch at the bucking. I'll just take it slow for now until I can save up some more and custom mount some long travel deavers on the rear. Couple more days until I should be ordering everything!

 

nice dude, what shocks you going with?

 

For the rear?

 

for front and rear...

 

Front I'm going with 2.5x 8" Coil Over by King Product number-PR2508-COHR. As for the rear I'm still looking. I know I will need new shocks for the rear since the height will be increased but not really sure.

 

for the rear keep it simple and go with a smooth body shock with a resi. i'd go king, to match the front.

order your shocks from www.downsouthmotorspots.com they have great prices, amazing customer service and a TW discount

http://downsouthmotorsports.com/i-134801-king-2-5-pre-runner-series-smooth-body-shocks.html

 

How would a 2.0x 6" Smoothie emulsion shock by king do?
Product Number-PR2006-SSNR

 

you could do that, or a 2.0 smooth body resi

bili 5150 are also and option

http://downsouthmotorsports.com/i-135589-bilstein-5150-series-performance-shocks.html

 

the bilstiens are half the price of the kings. I think I might go with that!
You've been a ton of help Nelson. I appreciate it!

 

the 5150's should serve you well, and yeah their price is much easier on the wallet

glad to help dude, now go spend some money

 

Well just thought I'd update everyone. Long travel is in the mail and should be getting here just before the new year. I'm so exited! All I need are the t-100 axles. Are they something that I can just pick up at autozone or some auto parts store?

 

Yeah they even carry the reman ones pretty cheap, call ahead as they might have to order them in.