06 Bilstein 5100's vs Others

Hi everyone, I've been browsing for a while and decided to join the forum. I've owned my 2006 Tundra Double Cab for a year now, and it's in great shape. All my buddies have jeeps and I would like to do a little more aggressive offroading with them. I bought the truck with 2-inch spacers in the front, and probably 2-inch spacers in the rear. It has about 175,000 miles on it and my next upgrade after will be suspension. I already have some XD wheels and Nitto trail grapplers on it and am deciding what budget suspension upgrade would be the best. I know a bunch of guys on here run the 5100's and am wondering how they'd do for my situation. I'm thinking stock coil springs in the front with the 5100's, and possibly the ICON AAL's with the 5100's in the rear. I'm looking for a very capable truck offroad that is budget friendly and drives not awful on the road. Thanks for the help!

 

Sounds like a good plan to me, should be pretty functional and you can always improve later with upper arms. Keep some room in the budget for alignment, also consider what parts may ne smart to replace while at it.

If it has had 2" spacers the upper and lower ball joints might be pretty worn. If you go into that, may as well do tie rod ends as well. Adding new suspension parts doesn't do you much good if other suspension parts need replacement. In my experience, doing so can add stress and accelerate wear on things that might be on their way out.

Welcome! Post pics if you can.

 

Using 5100s with stock springs will get you an increase in offroad performance compared to what you have now, but I don't know if it will meet your goal of "a very capable truck offroad." When you use stock springs and adjustable 5100s to lift the front, you are essentially pre-loading the stock spring to get your height...so while it's better than a spacer lift, it will limit your travel and harshen your ride compared to lifting the front with springs. And the 5100s damping is better than stock, but not a huge jump in performance (especially if your truck is a TRD, since there is not alot of difference performance wise between Bilstein 4600s and 5100s) I know this from experience as this is exactly what I ran on my 2002 Tundra TRD Off-Road 4x4.

With the 5100 setup you are talking about you are at $650+ and your not really getting that much increase in off-road performance IMHO.

https://www.bilsteinlifts.com/shop/...ront-rear-shocks-for-2000-2006-toyota-tundra/

https://www.bilsteinlifts.com/shop/...-expansion-pack-add-leaf-00-06-toyota-tundra/


Personally, if I was going a budget route but still wanted a significant increase in offroad performance it would be one of these three options in order...

$923+ $1123+ With this 3rd option you will also need to AAL, hence the two links.

$1240-1400+

https://www.bilsteinlifts.com/shop/...0-2-rear-lift-shocks-00-06-toyota-tundra-4wd/

https://www.bilsteinlifts.com/produ...a_model=tundra&really_curr_tax=38-product_cat

 

I think the Fox Performance Series 2.0 are better than the Bilstein 5100's and not much more expensive.