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Old 01-19-2009, 11:12 AM
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Coils?

I was wondering if tacomas had coils in the front and back? or just the front or just the back. i want to put coil spacers as a lift, instead of something more expensive...

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Old 01-19-2009, 11:30 AM
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oh brother. Tacos have coils in the front and leafs in the rear. You could go the "cheap way" and put spacers in the front and blocks in the rear, but i would never do that to my own truck.
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oh lol.... well what is a good lift that it kinda cheap. money st tight lol
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Coil spacers and shackles..?
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I did you a favor and cleaned up your thread of all the non-tech posts.
Please refrain from the immature comments as that is what we call "pot-stirring."

Tacoma's have coils in the front and leafs in the rear.

I have run coil spacers on a 4Runner and the ride was less than favorable, cheap, but rough.
I would recommend waiting to save up the money to do the lift right the first time.

That's my opinion, hopefully others will post up with their opinions.

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Old 01-25-2009, 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted by wmeyer
I was wondering if tacomas had coils in the front and back? or just the front or just the back. i want to put coil spacers as a lift, instead of something more expensive...

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You can't just bend over and look under yours ?

You do realize that you'll need more than just spacers, blocks, shackles, etc., to lift the vehicle, correct ?



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Originally Posted by 4x4Fink
<SNIP>

I have run coil spacers on a 4Runner and the ride was less than favorable, cheap, but rough.
<SNIP>
Coil spacers, in and of themselves, don't affect the ride stiffness.
They don't change the spring rate in any way.
The shocks that you changed to, most certainly can/did affect the stiffness of the ride.




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