86 yota lift

userbmx1315

userbmx1315

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got a buddy that wants to lift his toyota. is there a way to lift it? i'm not a IFS guy so i'm clueless. i know he could buy a lift, but a guy said to just tighten the torsion bars. maybe spacers? whats that and how? also if anyone knows a website that has cheap yota lifts that would be great. not looking to do Marlin Crawler stuff. just some muddy trails
 
This isn't the best thing to do but crank the torsion bars up and put a add a leaf or block in the back. The adjustment for the torsion bars are underneath the cab on the inside of the frame rails, I believe its a 22mm bolt.
 
the torsion bars are the easy way to lift it an inch or so the more you lift it the less droop it will have. also too much and the cv joints will be breaking. about one and a half to two inches max.
the rears can be done either by longer shackles or blocks.
the longer shackles will lift it half of how much longer than stock you make them three inches more than stock will net you right at one and a half inches.
a body lift will also give you some extra tire clearance if you want to run a bigger tire.
look up on line how to adjust the torsion bars and then raise it an inch and a half get you some longer flat steel and make you some shackles for the rear
put a two inch body lift and you can run 33 inch tire with minimal scrubbing or 32 inch tires with no scrubbing.
knew some one who ran 3 inch body lift and cranked the torsion bars and used 3 inch blocks and ran 35 inch tires.
rode like crap wheel hopped like a mad dog in heat and scrubbed pretty bad on full stuff situations. but he ran it like that for several years before he got a ifs lift.
I think the final front axle count was six or seven before he finally got rid of it.
 
I still have IFSucks. I have crunk torsion bars, 3" body lift, add a leafs in the rear, trimmed front fenders and 35"BFG ATS. They scrub when I turn to full lock but I dont have good wheels either. Dont buy a IFS lift because you can SAS for not much more If you know what youre doing.
 
sgtbriangreen said:
I still have IFSucks. I have crunk torsion bars, 3" body lift, add a leafs in the rear, trimmed front fenders and 35"BFG ATS. They scrub when I turn to full lock but I dont have good wheels either. Dont buy a IFS lift because you can SAS for not much more If you know what youre doing.
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x2 On that. Lifting IFS is like trying to polish a turd.
 
me n him would love to SAS. but he doesnt have a good job. thoght about tightning the bars, shackles and maybe a 2" body lift to run 33s but i'm a noob to IFS. i hate them but he just happend to get this, so now we kinda confused about lifting it. any write ups on tightning the torsion bars?
 
userbmx1315 said:
anyone have a write up doing this?
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I can't believe nobody has pointed you to any real info yet.

Get to know thsi site, it has 95% of all teh info you wil lever need, esp regardin gcheap lifts.
http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/ForSale/ProductLine.shtml

The site has not only info on products, but details on how things work and even how to do it yourself if wanted.

Roger(4Crawler) sells Balljoint spacers, up to 1.5", that's a good cheap alternative. The spacer goes in above the upper balljoints (beneath upper A-arm), effectively pushing the bottom down by 1.5" and adding that to your ride height.
Also sells body lifts of any size you want, custom height if desired.
IMO, you can do the BJ spacers and crank then T-bars a little (for info on that see here:
http://www.off-road.com/trucks4x4/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=398514 )
abou tan inch is safe. That nets 2.5".
In the rear, get 3" longer shackles, that will (roughly) match the front... then get a 1-2" body lift, and you're done, netting 3.5-4.5", plenty for those 33s and maybe even 35s. You could get all this from 4Crawler for prob < $150-200 total.

Now, agreed that you are limited by the IFS, but you have to do what the budget allows, and if yo udon't over crank them and aren't rock-crawling, the setup really is perfectly fine.
 
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