"Small Front Lift" question #785

[calnhob]

Where do you get those extended studs?

Do you have a full side shot showing both front and rear?

You know now that you have a front lift you'll have to get a rear one...then sliders...then steel bumpers...the list gets long and the wallet gets thin.
:bounce:

 

[4Runner4Leon]

Where do you get those extended studs?

Do you have a full side shot showing both front and rear?

You know now that you have a front lift you'll have to get a rear one...then sliders...then steel bumpers...the list gets long and the wallet gets thin.
:bounce:

I got the studs here - 2" Top Plate Stud, Set of 6

They are a bit overkill for the 1/2" spacers, but the original studs were going to be too short.

Here is the truck in its full glory, front end pointing upwards . Maybe it'll settle.

 

[phattyduck]

Here is the truck in its full glory, front end pointing upwards . Maybe it'll settle.

I'm surprised it lifted the front end that much too! I don't expect it to settle, as they are your original springs, right? Maybe some smaller spacers are in your future...

And you can see the difference in the extended length of the new shocks there, compared to stock...

-Charlie

 

[4Runner4Leon]

I'm surprised it lifted the front end that much too! I don't expect it to settle, as they are your original springs, right? Maybe some smaller spacers are in your future...

And you can see the difference in the extended length of the new shocks there, compared to stock...

-Charlie

Yup, original springs, not much settling to be expected there for sure. One area where it might settle a tiny bit is that there was a permanent indentation in the rubber spring isolator under the mount from the spring end. I rotated the isolator so that a undented portion was now under the spring end, but the indentation was no more than about 1/8". So not much to be gained there.

Good news is that if/when I decide to use a smaller spacer, I won't have to undo the spring from the shock, just drop the whole assembly and slide in a new spacer. I can almost do that with my eyes closed now.

 

[snydmax]

Dumb question, can you swap those studs without disassembling the strut/coil?


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[4Runner4Leon]

Dumb question, can you swap those studs without disassembling the strut/coil?

Unfortunately not. So you'd want to do this at the same time as swapping shocks or springs, unless you enjoy using the spring compressor over and over .