Body Lift or Spacers?

[michaelreed]

Ok, I've searched around a bit, but haven't been able to find a whole lot.

My question is this: I just put on an old man emu 3" lift. I'm going to replace the stock tires with 275/70/15s (possibly 285s) but I want to keep the distance between the wheel well and top of the tire the same. I just like the look of it. Would it be more beneficial to just do a body lift? Or should I get all the drop brackets etc and just add spacers on top of the ome lift? Which would be safer? If I go with spacers, what all would I have to drop to make it work?

Thanks for the help!

 

[alex56]

Ok, I've searched around a bit, but haven't been able to find a whole lot.

My question is this: I just put on an old man emu 3" lift. I'm going to replace the stock tires with 275/70/15s (possibly 285s) but I want to keep the distance between the wheel well and top of the tire the same. I just like the look of it. Would it be more beneficial to just do a body lift? Or should I get all the drop brackets etc and just add spacers on top of the ome lift? Which would be safer? If I go with spacers, what all would I have to drop to make it work?

Thanks for the help!

I would not advise putting spacers on top of a already existing "lift kit" for this is dangerous and most likley would damage your front shocks.... For the rest of your post, its confusing at what you want... Drop brackets?

 

[crackiswack]

Ok, I've searched around a bit, but haven't been able to find a whole lot.

My question is this: I just put on an old man emu 3" lift. I'm going to replace the stock tires with 275/70/15s (possibly 285s) but I want to keep the distance between the wheel well and top of the tire the same. I just like the look of it. Would it be more beneficial to just do a body lift? Or should I get all the drop brackets etc and just add spacers on top of the ome lift? Which would be safer? If I go with spacers, what all would I have to drop to make it work?

Thanks for the help!

You can't fit 15's either, I assume you meant 275/70/17

 

[ARK_SWAMP_RIDER]

It's time for a body lift imo. It's not real clear, but maybe he's talking about drop brackets such as what would come with a larger lift, such as the 6" lift for the FJ.

 

[michaelreed]

It's time for a body lift imo. It's not real clear, but maybe he's talking about drop brackets such as what would come with a larger lift, such as the 6" lift for the FJ.

Yes exactly. Sorry, I wasn't clear. Basically just want to know what the best options are for going over 3" of lift. I read that if you go over 3" you have to drop your front diff and other things so I was just wanting to know what those other components were that I would have to drop. Hopefully that made more sense?

 

[snowbrdr033]

Yes, you will need to do a BL and anything over 3" you'll need the diff drop (I've heard it's pointless, however) and also should strongly consider new UCAs as well.

 

[SUP3RJEFF]

Body lift seems like the way to go. Unless I'm mistaken, I think you can ad a 1-1.5" bl without having to do too much modification.

 

[zstampe]

Sh!t, sorry for the awful picture but mine has 285's, OME and a body lift.

 

[michaelreed]

Sh!t, sorry for the awful picture but mine has 285's, OME and a body lift.

Yeah perfect! Thats basically what I was looking for. How much of a body lift do you have? And did you do it yourself?

When I put larger tires on i still want that clearance in the wheel well. I think it looks really good.

 

[michaelreed]

You can't fit 15's either, I assume you meant 275/70/17

I meant 15s. May need some modification to the rotors from what I hear but the sr5 may be able to fit them. My buddy has a 2nd gen with 15s so I'm going to test it out and see. If not, then yeah stock size.

 

[zstampe]

Yeah perfect! Thats basically what I was looking for. How much of a body lift do you have? And did you do it yourself?

When I put larger tires on i still want that clearance in the wheel well. I think it looks really good.

It's a one inch toytec body lift and it was really pretty easy to install. I have some new pics on my computer that I shot with my dslr. I'll post those here sometime this weekend.

 

[Jb50]

With just the 3" spacers above the strut will I need to do the diff drop?

 

[michaelreed]

With spacers above the oem struts, no.