Eccracer104
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- Mike
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- 2016 Toyota Tundra
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Hello all,
I need some help getting steered in the right direction here. I’m too uniformed to know if I’m reading BS or fact.
I have loads of IFS knowledge from Toyotas, but yesterday my fiancée got herself a JT and it needs some love.
To get started: if any of y’all have some great threads to read on JT suspension, solid axle suspension tech, etc… I would greatly appreciate it. I’d like to know more about what I’ll be working with before I’m elbow deep and over my head.
A question I’m currently stumped on out of sheer ignorance:
What constitutes needing a new front drive shaft? And what other components come into play that could need a replacement with a lift?
Ex
Mopar 2” lift is just open the box, install the parts, and good to go.
Superlift 4” lift. Same thing, install and be on your way.
Now I’ve heard a lot about Metal Cloak being the shit - so obviously I checked them out - but they require a new front driveshaft for the added travel their kit offers. Love that, a lift with real results. Obviously comes at a cost though.
So here’s my confusion: how is it that superlift can offer a 4” lift without driveshaft modification and metal cloak 2” does. Does the super lift kit essentially limit down travel by 4” and retain stock overall travel numbers? You’re basically riding 4” higher in your travel?
Hope that makes sense so someone can help it make some sense to me. And if there are threads available for me to read you would recommend please send them my way! I’d love to search and learn, just need that ground floor knowledge to get the ball rolling.
Appreciate y’all in advance!
I need some help getting steered in the right direction here. I’m too uniformed to know if I’m reading BS or fact.
I have loads of IFS knowledge from Toyotas, but yesterday my fiancée got herself a JT and it needs some love.
To get started: if any of y’all have some great threads to read on JT suspension, solid axle suspension tech, etc… I would greatly appreciate it. I’d like to know more about what I’ll be working with before I’m elbow deep and over my head.
A question I’m currently stumped on out of sheer ignorance:
What constitutes needing a new front drive shaft? And what other components come into play that could need a replacement with a lift?
Ex
Mopar 2” lift is just open the box, install the parts, and good to go.
Superlift 4” lift. Same thing, install and be on your way.
Now I’ve heard a lot about Metal Cloak being the shit - so obviously I checked them out - but they require a new front driveshaft for the added travel their kit offers. Love that, a lift with real results. Obviously comes at a cost though.
So here’s my confusion: how is it that superlift can offer a 4” lift without driveshaft modification and metal cloak 2” does. Does the super lift kit essentially limit down travel by 4” and retain stock overall travel numbers? You’re basically riding 4” higher in your travel?
Hope that makes sense so someone can help it make some sense to me. And if there are threads available for me to read you would recommend please send them my way! I’d love to search and learn, just need that ground floor knowledge to get the ball rolling.
Appreciate y’all in advance!
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