Hey guys!
I've been on the forum researching for a long time now and finally made an account. I live in Eastern NC and recently sold my 3rd gen and bought a 4th gen!
I learned to drive in my 1996 SR5 (back when it only had 50k miles on it) and drove it all the way until this past February when I could no longer afford to keep fixing it. Every other month seemed to be a new $1200 repair popping up, so my wife and I agreed it was time to let my baby go. Under one rule. I had to get another 4Runner =).
Managed to find exactly what I wanted a few weeks later.
2008 SR5 4x4 Shadow Mica with only 47k miles on it
As you can see with the picture of my 96, I never did any mods on it. It always performed fine off road without any hiccups for what I was doing. Now with my 08 I want to do a few things.
Here is what I plan to do:
Daystar 2.5/1.5
Spidertrax 1.25 spacers
Goodyear Duratrac 255/75R17
A couple questions I have that I couldn't locate in the search bar...
-This is my daily driver and I drive about 35 miles each day. I want to sacrifice as little mpg as possible while still increasing it's performance off-road. I typically only off-road about 5-10 days out of the year and that is only on soft sand at the beaches and on medium difficulty trails in the mountains. I really like the Duratracs in 255/75R17 as I like the tall/skinnies and being able to keep the same mpg is a huge seller for me.
My concern is, the Duratracs in 255/75 only come in SL load range. Is that going to be okay for my purposes? I typically take my fishing gear and have a total of 3 passengers in my truck. I will not be doing any serious rock crawling or deep mudding in this truck and I won't be adding any heavy exterior mods like bumper, sliders, etc.
-If anyone is running this exact same setup, I'd love to see pictures. I've read plenty of reports that 255/75R17 Duratracs fit fine with the daystar 2.5 lift, but I was curious if you guys think I
need to put wheel spacers on (spidertrax)? (will it look dumb without them?) Will I get rubbing with the addition of wheel spacers?
I apologize if this has been beaten to death in other threads (i'm sure you are tired of answering questions to newbies about daystar and duratracs), but money is sorta tight and I want to make sure this setup will fit my needs before I spend any money on upgrades. Thanks a lot! =)