quick tire & lift advice

[Semperfly82]

Being that i'm currently overseas i am trying to have everything installed before i come home. Currently at my house in my garage i have an ICON stage II w/ LR UCA waiting to be installed. I also have a set of Duratracs on order from discount tire.

I need advice on the order of getting these installed.

1. Local fab shop install lift and UCA but with stock tires. (Problem here is they dont know what control arm adjustments to make because they will only have my stock tires.) Then go to discount tire and have them put the tires on.

2. Have discount tire install the 285/70r/17 Duratracs on my stock 4runner (if they even fit) then have wife take truck to shop to get the lift installed and then they can make the correct caster adjustments.

3. Or am i way off on both?

Appreciate any input..

 

[TampaSurfBum]

I am brand spankin new here but getting ready to do a few things to my 4runner. I have 265/70r17s from the showroom on mine and a 285 is a minimal change in size... depending on how far away the tire shop is from the shop doing the lift you should be able to drive just fine on 285s (not sure what a full lock of the wheel would do though. Can the fab shop do the instal of tires if you brought the tires to them??

 

[Intruder]

Any place that does alignments should be able to adjust the caster on your UCAs. I had my lift installed first then the 285s put on the next day. You'll likely need an alignment anyhow, so just have Discount Tire do that after they put the tires on.

 

[characterzero]

Any place that does alignments should be able to adjust the caster on your UCAs. I had my lift installed first then the 285s put on the next day. You'll likely need an alignment anyhow, so just have Discount Tire do that after they put the tires on.

Discount Tire (at least around me) doesn't do alignments.

 

[coldryder]

Correct. Discount Tire stores do not have the equipment needed to perform alignments. Given that, I would go with option 2. Have the tires installed first and then the suspension work. This assumes that the shop that insalls the suspension can do the alignment. If not, it really doesn't matter.

 

[Semperfly82]

The shop does both. Problem solved. Thanks for the inputs

 

[Semperfly82]

Novice question, and figured its been answered but just to continue with my original post here. When i swap out the tires to the larger size do i need to get a new TPMS sensor? How does that whole process work?

I'm thinking of changing out the stock sr5 wheels with the atx mojave on my new 285/70/17 duratracs whats the best process to keep the tpms sensor operational?

Thanks in advance

 

[1engineer]

Novice question, and figured its been answered but just to continue with my original post here. When i swap out the tires to the larger size do i need to get a new TPMS sensor? How does that whole process work?

I'm thinking of changing out the stock sr5 wheels with the atx mojave on my new 285/70/17 duratracs whats the best process to keep the tpms sensor operational?

Thanks in advance

Pressure=pressure no matter what the tire size. If you swap wheels swap the TPMS sensors with it and you are good to go.

 

[Stifler]

just make sure the bafoons dont damage them in the transfer...

 

[Beakerbox]

I believe discount tire will charge you 16 dollars to install new TPMS with a tire placement.

I wouldn't expect much from discount (Americas) tire besides a good price for the tire. Unless they have a road force balancing machine, which none do anywhere near me - it's almost guaranteed you'll be driving out of discount tire, then straight to a more competent shop to fix your wheel vibration. You could consider just picking up the tires then having them installed elsewhere.. Can the guys installing the lift kit do it?

 

[Semperfly82]

Yea the guys doing the lift can also install the tires and do the alignment, i'll just let them know to swap out the tpms sensor when they do the exchange. Thanks for your advice.