New tires and stuff

So, a couple of years ago, I bought the Coachbuilder steering kit in a group buy. It was a great deal and I figured that I would need new tie rod ends at some point anyway. I also bought the Coachbuilder bumper spacers because I always wanted to go up to 35" tires (in hindsight, I should have gone with 35's to begin with). A few weeks ago, I was looking under my truck and I saw that the stock tie rod ends were leaking. Also, the TPMS sensors stopped working and the squeaking from upper control arms was driving me crazy. So, I figured that this was a good time to get new tires and do the maintenance work.

Here are the Coachbuilder kits:




I thought that the bumper spacers would be easy enough to install.... just 8 nuts, right? Well... you need a deeper socket to get over the bolts and the socket that I to clear the bolt made it so that the head of the socket wrench locked up against the inside of the bumper. I guess that I am just tired of wrenching on my truck. So I just had my local shop do all the work (Round 2 Offroad in Cedar Park).

Here is the clearance of the bolts to the inside of the bumper. I know, it looks like there is a ton of space, but the socket that I had was too deep.


Here are the bumper spacers installed:


Here is the stock position of the bumper:


Here is the bumper pushed out 1/2 an inch. You can see that there is a little extra space between the plastic liners:

I had already trimmed the bumper liner and the mud flaps so I figured that the bumper spacers would be enough to clear 35's:
https://www.tundras.com/threads/trimming-front-bumper-liner-and-mudflaps.63755/

With 295/65/20 tires, there is now about 2.5 inches of clearance to the bumper liner:


At full lock, there is about 1/2 inch of clearance:


At full lock, there is about 1 inch of clearance to the mud flaps and about 1.5 inches of clearance to the body mount:




So, here are the 35's on the truck:


You can hardly notice the 1/2 inch that the bumper is pushed forward:


Couple more shots of the truck:




I think that the truck still looks good for a 2016 with only 70k miles. Doing this maintenance and getting the new tires makes it feel like a new ride. The squeaking is gone from the upper control arms, the damn TPMS light is off now, the steering is super tight and it drives straight as an arrow, and the 35's feel much smoother on the road. However, I can feel the additional power loss going up to the 35's and the speedometer is now off by 6.66%. but I like the look and feel so much better.

Thanks for looking

 

Thanks for sharing. I was looking for a side picture like this for the bumper spacers.

 

cool.. yeah... the bumper spacers are totally worth it and the gap is barely noticeable.