Recent content by jt3212

Good to hear and thanks for the response! I have watched many Tinkerer's Adventure videos, that guy is a huge help and wealth of knowledge for the Toyota community. I actually rewatched his videos before posting here just to make sure I wasn't way off on my thinking lol. I hope he keeps...

Good info! I do wonder if Dobinsons concern about lowering the seat is about keeping the spring fully engaged. Obviously, with your longer spring that's not a concern but if I'm doing my math right, if I lower my seat to 200mm from the bushing eye and full extension of the shock is 560mm that...

About a 1/2 inch is exactly what I was thinking, so thank you for confirming that! So you are running an IMS shock with the OME2886 spring? Does everything ride ok with it setup like that?

Thank you for confirming I'm not crazy to think reducing the preload isn't a problem. I'm with you that I can't see how it could actually harm anything, but I'm still puzzled that the Dobinsons rep would be so adamant about that. I agree that maybe an upper level support tech or engineer would...

Hi all, Maybe I'm jumping the gun before getting an alignment, so let me know if you think that's the case. I recently had a Dobinsons IMS lift kit delivered and after installing it, the lift was about 3.25 inches in the front and I was expecting ~2 inches in order to level it with the factory...