Daystar 2.5 lift kit, any good??

[SantaCruzRunner]

Hello,

I was recently thinking of a cheaper and easier way to lift my runner and came across this daystar kit. Ive heard people say that spacers can be shady but these advertise no ride change and reliability. I have stock spring and have recently upgraded to bilstein shocks so i think i can handle a couple inches. i will put a link to the kit i have in mind below and please give any advice you may have.

Thanks,
Andrew

Daystar™ - Driven by Design

 

[WS4Runner]

yes it i worth it lifted mine last week with it, noticable lift and it drives just as smooth as it did without ill post before and after pic for you in a bit.

 

[WS4Runner]

The pic with the mud is before, and the pic clean is after the 2.5 daystar lift. note i did take off the running boards with the lift.

 

[brian2sun]

I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, and your truck does look nice. But, I'd say 95% of the people I know of who got spacer lifts ended up replacing them with coil/shock lifts within a year or 2 (myself included). The reasons why..

Your stock shocks aren't long enough so they will be maxed out very easily when you add spacers. That severely limits travel and therefore traction compared to a coil lift with proper extended shocks. And if you are going to replace your shocks to get that travel, then it would be wise to get new coils at the same time. They are relatively cheap and taking apart the front struts sucks. So you don't want to have to do it again later not to mention get another alignment afterwards.

Because the front suspension uses struts and part of the front spacers are installed in the strut assemblies, it puts preload on your already old coils. This smashes them more than they were ever intended to compress and that causes them to wear out fast and start to ride very harsh. WS4Runner, give it about 6 months to a year and you'll see what I mean about the ride.

I say do it right the first time and save up some more dough for new coils and new shocks.

 

[pengwin]

what if I already have ome 906's and dont want to buy 890's or 891's... will spacers work well in that case?

 

[brian2sun]

what if I already have ome 906's and dont want to buy 890's or 891's... will spacers work well in that case?

Spacers don't preload the rear coils like they do on the fronts. So spacers in the rear aren't so bad. They're still not as good as lift coils though. Lift coils will be able to compress more. But you can get by on spacers in the rear and it won't ride any worse back there. Running stock shocks sucks though, I'd get longer ones so you have some travel if you off road.

 

[SantaCruzRunner]

I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, and your truck does look nice. But, I'd say 95% of the people I know of who got spacer lifts ended up replacing them with coil/shock lifts within a year or 2 (myself included). The reasons why..

Your stock shocks aren't long enough so they will be maxed out very easily when you add spacers. That severely limits travel and therefore traction compared to a coil lift with proper extended shocks. And if you are going to replace your shocks to get that travel, then it would be wise to get new coils at the same time. They are relatively cheap and taking apart the front struts sucks. So you don't want to have to do it again later not to mention get another alignment afterwards.

Because the front suspension uses struts and part of the front spacers are installed in the strut assemblies, it puts preload on your already old coils. This smashes them more than they were ever intended to compress and that causes them to wear out fast and start to ride very harsh. WS4Runner, give it about 6 months to a year and you'll see what I mean about the ride.

I say do it right the first time and save up some more dough for new coils and new shocks.

Yea i definatly get what your saying, i just started a new job so im wondering if i should go ahead and do the spacers now or wait and go the OME route with new springs. i think that is top on my list for brands and mods, definatly from Toytec.

 

[itr1275]

Spacers don't preload the rear coils like they do on the fronts. So spacers in the rear aren't so bad. They're still not as good as lift coils though. Lift coils will be able to compress more. But you can get by on spacers in the rear and it won't ride any worse back there. Running stock shocks sucks though, I'd get longer ones so you have some travel if you off road.

True they are not as bad. Also rear springs are easy to install and relatively cheap. They also add more suspension travel on the the only solid axle we have.

As apposed to the front were we have travel limited by just about everything.