Everyone happy with their body lift?

[BlackWorksInc]

Putting the entire weight of the body up 1.5" or even 1" isn't ever so slight. That's a huge change in my opinion. I already know I'll be the lone opinion on this one because Toyotas have terrible clearance issues when you start moving up the tire size and people generally don't like chopping on the body. But if it had nothing to do with clearance for a tire, and only the fact to have more lift for looks than a body lift is a bad idea.

As much as I wish it did, a Dana 60 doesn't help you fit larger tires in the rear. And rclt only helps you clear the body mount, not the fender. I had to cut and modify the shit out of my fenders to clear just some of the up travel on rclt. I'm running 4.5" of backspacing so the extra width I added isn't all that much. But if it was stock up travel, I could've cut way less to fit a 35.

I don't entirely disagree with you, my choice of a 1.5" body lift for my 35's had to do with keeping the center of gravity as low as possible while allowing for the most "stuffing" of my 35's without needing to deal with the body.

The main reason for that was because the way the rear body structure is designed you end up having to push the rear axle rearward if you don't want to cut up the doors and door tubs. Additionally the front isn't as big a deal in terms of fitting 35's as long as you're fine with replacing the front bumper and pushing the caster closer to 5.5+ degrees. But that also requires a very good suspension set-up beyond what most people do.

As you mentioned you had to widen the track of your vehicle excessively to make things work and you've significantly changed the suspension and handling characteristics of the vehicle with your suspension beyond what the vehicle was designed to safely operate with. I'm running 35x12.5R17's without significant rubbing on compression while only sticking past the factory fenders maybe just over an inch (I'll have to double check that.) When you look at my 4th gen sitting next to another one with just a 3" suspension lift and 33" tires, mine actually sits only slightly higher compared to most people with 35's. It's a balancing game at the end of the day, it's easy to jack your vehicle up and slap big tires on it; it's much harder to balance your needs vs. maintaining functional low center of gravity. I would even argue that at the end of the day there's plenty of different ways to lift a vehicle and the argument of which one is "better" for center of gravity becomes a semantics debate; any increase in the height of the Yaw Rate Sensor is significant and any change to the suspension or wheels/tires compromises the vehicle's safety design by default. It just becomes an argument of splitting hairs at that point.