What a long weekend in the garage! Managed to get my new coils installed, and so far, I'm really loving the look of them!

Before:


After:


The front end:


and the rear end:


Broken sway bar endlinks:


So much dirt! I need a pressure washer.

You'll notice that there are yellow Bilsteins in the front post lift. When we were attempting to compress the new coil enough to fit the stock shock in, it simply wouldn't fit, no matter how compressed. Luckily, my dad had his old (stock) shocks from his '00 Tacoma, and they are slightly longer. We installed these, and so far so good!

Also, managed to break both sway bar endlinks while trying to get them off. The bolts were suuuper rusted on, and ended up even having to angle grind one of them off. Now I'm trying to decide whether to buy new ones, or just leave them off.


Stock vs. Lifted:


Overall, it went fairly well!

Hopefully the next post will be some new tires, 285 Duratracs?