I was recently asked a question about the tricked out rear air bags. Since I didn't do this trick myself, but I've been promoting it...I figured I go back and check how it was done on my 2003 GX470 for documentation purposes.
Also, it's been bothering me that the factory hub to fender measurements on the rear as posted by
@MaverickFiveO in his
thread were not quite adding up for me. I should be raised about 1.25" in the rear with the air bag trick, but sounds like I'm only raised about 3/4" based on those factory fresh theoretical measurements.
Anyways, here's how the trick for the rear air height sensors was done. Even though the driver's side was tricked more to compensate for a driver's lean, I'm still leaning to the driver's side by 1/4". I went back and got some information from the
www.toyota120.com site in this
post, so I want to give them kudos for mentioning this trick a few years ago.
By the way, there were two tricks to lower the air height sensors. Mine has the washer/nut trick to lower the sensor bracket in order to raise the air bags. It's supposed to be a 3:1 ratio.
Here are my hub to fender measurements as I sit today:
FD = 22.5"
FP = 22.75"
RD = 22.375"
RP = 22.625"
Here's the calculated fresh off the factory numbers which unfortunately don't quite add up for my current lift:
FD = 20.5"
FP = 20.5"
RD = 21.75"
RP = 21.75"
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