Are there any easy 1" type lifts for the rear? I know about the MR. G spacers but from what I've read they are for the front only? I know shi$ or get off the pot and get a lift. Problem is parking gargages I use a lot of them, sometimes street parking is not an option.
1" rear lift?
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What are you trying to accomplish? If you need a little more load carrying capacity without the rear sagging, you could look at air-bags. Also, it may be that your old springs are just plain worn out and Slee offers a stock height replacement spring.
www.sleeoffroad.com
www.sleeoffroad.com
they sell 10mm trim packers for the front and rear we got ours from man-a-fre, I think you can only put 2 in so like 20mm in lift.
The 862 springs lifted my rear just about 1". For a really low dollar 1" lift you could combine these with the Mr. Gasket spacers on stock springs in the front and continue to use your stock shocks. If you later want to go to 2" you can get 860 front springs and OME shocks, and then use trim packers to bring the rear up to whatever looks right to you. 860s and 862s+10mm makes my '95 about as tail high as stock.
The loose coil on the top of the stock springs looks like it would eat a hole in an OME trim packer. If anyone has used OME trim packers with Toyota springs I would be interested to hear well they lasted.
Mike
The loose coil on the top of the stock springs looks like it would eat a hole in an OME trim packer. If anyone has used OME trim packers with Toyota springs I would be interested to hear well they lasted.
Mike
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I'd like a little increase in teh approach and departure angles. I'm really waffling with selling the 80 and buying a 100. Why, I really don't wheel hard, I drive a fair amount on the hwy. During the winter the heated seats are nice on my getting older pansy a$$, rear air for the kids. blahblahblah, I just prefer teh looks of the 80. I don't feel like throwing a bunch of $$ in and then sell it 4-6 months later. Especially since I just did the birfs, PHH, flush this weekend, tranny fluid and trans and diffs. I thought for $50-100 if there was an easy cheap safe way.
I think if you're looking for just alittle lift 1" isn't going to help on the angles too much. If you go to a 305/70, 285/75, 295/75(may rub) tire then you'll get that 1" with the just tire higth. But that an't cheap, just if you need new tires maybe 
I'd have to say the rear ome 862 springs and stock front with 1" spacers whould be the cheapest and still an ok way to go. Run about $150 for the springs and $20 for the spacers.
I'd have to say the rear ome 862 springs and stock front with 1" spacers whould be the cheapest and still an ok way to go. Run about $150 for the springs and $20 for the spacers.
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< $200 I can live with that. Yeah I was looking at 285's but found some take off BFG at 8 months ish ago for $300 M/B. I just couldn't walk away.
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Cheers,
Sean
Cheers,
Sean
I think OME offers ring spacers with a 0.75" height though they used to offer as much as a 1.5" ring spacer. It's a cheap lift that I think gives the LC a better stance, though I wouldn't reccomend going for the stink bug look.
I just installed a 1.5" steel ring spacer on my LC80's front and it now only has a nose droop of 1". Another effect is that for reasons that I have no idea why, my LC has become much more quiet at very low speed and no longer makes that locker noise. I've lived with that locker noise for the last three years so I'm pretty sure I know when it's gone. Steering has also become lighter, but because I already had a 2" lift with my springs, I had to replace my front shocks with longer ones.
Kalawang
I just installed a 1.5" steel ring spacer on my LC80's front and it now only has a nose droop of 1". Another effect is that for reasons that I have no idea why, my LC has become much more quiet at very low speed and no longer makes that locker noise. I've lived with that locker noise for the last three years so I'm pretty sure I know when it's gone. Steering has also become lighter, but because I already had a 2" lift with my springs, I had to replace my front shocks with longer ones.
Kalawang
