3” TRD Lift Stop Sale

I was able to find a kit and I’m getting it installed tomorrow. Using Dobinsons Springs instead of the spacers. I’m pretty stoked.

 

No they didn’t, you can buy a limited with the TRD skid plate. Your setup just isn’t correct. You’re missing the drop brackets, which people have removed to install the skid plate and to avoid rubbing on the sway bar. The issue is the binding and poor drivability that comes afterwards, most people put the drop brackets back on, I’m running the TRD skid plate with the 3in lift right now and my skid plate sits above my sway bar and it had to be trimmed. Look up tinkerer’s adventure on your tube, he goes into detail on how lifts work and limiting factor is the sway bar, which needs to be spaced to have correct articulation, Toyota has engineers figuring this out, you think they didn’t know all this?

 

Yes, for the lift to work correct and actually give you more articulation than stock, you need the drop brackets. Once you install them you’ll realize that the skid plate won’t fit anymore unless you put it above the sway bar. Toyota did this with the tundra trail hunter demo truck which is running the same drop brackets in the 3in lift. You can run whichever sway bar, the point is you can’t run the skid plate with the sway bar drop brackets that are provided in the kit. The TRD pro doesn’t have this issue because it’s using a different suspension setup that, instead of spacing the sway bar they opted to change the geometry altogether, you don’t have the full TRD pro suspension, for the kit to work correctly you need the drop brackets.

 

Do you happen to know the part number for these? Is it this 'stabilizer link' assembly that I'm attaching a screenshot of? Part numbers for that are PT983-34310: RH PT983-34320: LH

 

Links go at the end of the swap bar to attache do the lower control arm.

Are you needing the sway bar spacers?

 

I have no idea what a Toyota engineer knows as I haven't seen one respond in this thread and I haven't seen what you have, apparently. I appreciate you explaining it. Seems like a couple of people in this thread asked the question and got silence.... until I got provacative and confrontational which brought out the "akshuallys". Internet "Mavens" are definitely a thing. They repeat information they've read in other threads and then point back to them as proof. Easy to spot. Having true evidence and example that you posted here is, I think, something more tangible to pay attention to. Unfortunate that it took a challenge to draw it out.

In terms of decreased drivability, I guess for me it falls into the category of I don't know what I'm missing. This new truck without drop brackets is about 1000% more rigid and in control than my 2.5 gen. It doesn't feel sloppy at all. But it seems like something I should look more into. Thanks for a legit response.

 

Every single legitimate lift kit has some sort of sway bar drop setup, if you look at the fox and icon kits, they do include a sway bar drop spacer. Without it, the sway bar will bind up when you go to full lock and hit a bump or any suspension articulation. You also, generally speaking won’t have the actual amount of droop the kit was designed to give you. I had a third gen 4Runner that was lifted that had this exact issue even though all the suspension was new. It would pop and bind under certain situations. Someone posted another lift kit thread, in that thread people tried to remove the spacers and almost all of them ended up putting it back on because the truck doesn’t ride as nice. Also some people reported actually breaking the sway bar end links and wearing out the end link bushing prematurely without the drop brackets