99Yotarunner
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Hey guys I just ordered the daystar lift and toyotech diff drop. Anyone have any advice or done the day star lift yet? Any help or input would be great. TThanks
Daystar lift tips
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99Yotarunner
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Any one? It's a 99 with the taller coils with no sagging and I do not do any serious offroading. So i don't think I will have the dreaded sagging problem
brian2sun
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Glad to help answer any questions you may have, but as far as advice that I can think of...
Fronts:
Bring your strut assemblies to a shop and have them compress the coils to get the spacers in. It'll make it a lot easier.
Don't mess with the ball joints themselves to get the fronts in/out. Just remove the 4 bolts on each lower BJ and that will give you enough room without breaking the seals on the BJs.
Make sure the top plate bolts are lined up with the bottom shock bolts before you decompress the coils (you won't be able to turn the shock w/ pressure on it. Just hold it up to the truck to see if it's lined up.
Rears:
The rear is easy, just drop the axle and slip them in, use a floor jack to raise the axle back up and bolt it in.
Expect your stock CVs to not like the new angle and leak grease. With the diff drop you may be fine, but expect it still. They will last a while even after the grease leaks out (mine lasted about a year dry with torn and duct-taped boots). New CVs shouldn't give you problems.
Lastly, I have to tell you, I hated my Daystars after about a year because they sagged my coils and I could feel every bump in the road. Got my OMEs and never looked back.
Fronts:
Bring your strut assemblies to a shop and have them compress the coils to get the spacers in. It'll make it a lot easier.
Don't mess with the ball joints themselves to get the fronts in/out. Just remove the 4 bolts on each lower BJ and that will give you enough room without breaking the seals on the BJs.
Make sure the top plate bolts are lined up with the bottom shock bolts before you decompress the coils (you won't be able to turn the shock w/ pressure on it. Just hold it up to the truck to see if it's lined up.
Rears:
The rear is easy, just drop the axle and slip them in, use a floor jack to raise the axle back up and bolt it in.
Expect your stock CVs to not like the new angle and leak grease. With the diff drop you may be fine, but expect it still. They will last a while even after the grease leaks out (mine lasted about a year dry with torn and duct-taped boots). New CVs shouldn't give you problems.
Lastly, I have to tell you, I hated my Daystars after about a year because they sagged my coils and I could feel every bump in the road. Got my OMEs and never looked back.
99Yotarunner
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The front is the new daystar. Top mounts. And I have the longer extra wrap rear springs and don't off road very much.I plan on even in year or so to do new springs but wanna lift it cheap for now and slowly upgrade.
You will still have to remove the top plate...the spacers require longer mounting bolts that need to be pressed in from the bottom of the plate. To safely remove the plate and reinstall, you'll likely need a strut compressor.
Here is a writeup that I did when I installed spacers on my '98:
http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-gen-t4rs/55321-help-small-lift-tire-size-options-2.html
99Yotarunner
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there the new top mount, they dont require the strut to be disassembled any more. look on there web site.i thought the same but after a phone call they told me simpler hand tools, so looks like should be pretty simple to do.
Got a link? This is all I come up with:
Daystar - Driven by Design
and every spacer on that list will require that you install longer bolts on the top of the strut....which means that you will need to disassemble the strut.
99Yotarunner
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Yeah I thought same thing till I called they have not updated the photos yet for the 3rd gen Toyota. If you look at the 4geb photo it shows the newer desighn that is used. But I called and verified.
I do believe you are correct. Looking at this picture:
It appears that they simply provide bolt extensions for the current top plate bolts....
Good call! That will definitely be a time saver!
BTW, sorry if I caused any confusion over this...
bikewrench
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Do you have a model number of the "new" kit? I may be interested in the front kit til I can buy some coil-overs. Where did you get the kit?
