Just did mine today. Had to sawzall the rear shock bolt off because of the same issue. Also added a leaf spring. Drives amazing now especially with how much weight I carry in my tool box !
For the rear shocks, notch the shock tube (not the shock body) on both sides and put a pair of vice grips on it and it’ll hold the tube while you turn the nut on top.
I just did my front struts on my 04 Tundra. I have a little over 227 K on mine. I put a K&N filter and dualed It out with Flowmasters as soon as I got it in 04. Thing still sounds great.
Might need to check the steering rack bushings. I know on my 03 tundra with 250,000 it needed new ones around 240,000 but I’m sure mine was probably beat to shit a little more than that one was.
True dual Flowmaster Super 10 mufflers with 4x18 tips out the sides. These trucks are LOUD with exhaust because they come with very small OEM converters.
I got mine it’s an 01 just like yours…. How does the ball joint last? And what type do you use on it since it’s lifted mine has a 2.5 lift as wel and the ball joints are TRASH get replaced every 15k Miles trying to figure out if I either need a new control arm for off-road or just different type of balljoints..
Hey man, thanks for the video. I just lifted my son's 2004 Toyota Tundra TRD extended cab 4X4 with the full Rough Country 2.5" struts and 2" blocks. We are getting a lot of vibration and did a diff drop and carrier bearing drop with the 2006 Rough Country kit. We are still getting some vibration, did you have any problems? Our front CV axles seem to be leaking too, but not sure if that is from the past or the kit. The truck literally only has 18k on it though, so there really should be many issues! Thanks brother
I’m thinking of doing the same 2.5” RC lift kit and wanted feedback from you on the issues you experienced? Did you get the issues resolved? Was it the kit or RC components that caused the problems? I want to install this, but I don’t want problems either. Thanks.
I just did my son's rear shocks on his 4runner that were seized. I put a wrench on the top and turned the shock with a big pipe wrench with sharp teeth until the metal just broke. My back hurt a bit the next day but I am old and it worked......so, win.
How do the lifted struts ride I just got my 7.5 kit from them for my 11 chevy and went with the struts instead of the spacer I know you said the are soft but what about on the road and handling bumps
What are your measurements from hub to fender on the front? I put the icon 2.5's on my 06 tundra. they advertised 0-3 inches of lift but the coils are almost maxed out on adjustment and the ride height is still stock. wondering what my options are to level it out with the 3 inch lift in the rear.
I’m no mechanic and certainly have no room to criticize, but when he says the lower ball joint bolt heads are 9/16, he confirms he isn’t close to being a mechanic either.
I custom welded up a axle dump on my 05 might make a video on it one day. Literally cut the muffler off and used autozone pipes. Sounds like an old pony car and I love it
@@4.0cowboy I would love for you to make a video and let me hear it, my muffler literally rusted off and it sounds good without a muffler, I just can’t stand the droning.
@@enenra9821 we will make a video when we get the chance, we have a few companies that we’re working with doing installs so we try to fit small things in the schedule where we can! Subscribe and turn off notifications I promise I’ll make the video just for you👌🏽👌🏽
Yooo hoping you can help I wanna order these as well for my truck I’ve got 2000 tundra 2WD SR5 Model will these work for mine too I’ve already got the N3 RC shocks on the rear
I just replaced the n3s on my 2000 4wd and they were terrible shot bot the 100 dollar ones you can get off of car wise or something lastee me a month and were shot again
anyone run into clearance issues? bought these and i installed them but i'm having clearance issues with the upper control arm hitting the spring once the car goes down, and also hitting the tire
I had to replace my N3's after 6 months. I have put about 12,000 miles on them, 3,000 were off-road miles. The off-road miles consisted of washed out roads and very rocky terrain. I can say I was extremely hard on them, mainly carrying a lot of weight, and going too fast for the road/trail conditions. I went ahead and put a second pair on recently mainly because of cost and time constraint, planning on taking it a little easier on this pair. I'm running them on a 04 DC so it's a little heavier
Good luck with an alignment, hopefully you’ll have better luck, last time I did a lift like that on my Toyota, everything was to to max and couldn’t adjust anything
I've been looking for that kit!! Where did you find that kit so I can purchase it. Everywhere I go no one has the bilstien 6112s and the 5160. Can you please help me?
@@juliandaniels7930 the lift was done in late 2020 before all the shortages got crazy . The shop that did my lift ordered it but I don’t from where. Sorry man!
I have a question I just bought the front end struts, nothing else came with them. Do I need to buy longer stabilizer links for the 2.5 inch leveling kit
On a tundra? We don’t really need stabilizing links for that small of a lift. On this gen max you can do without a drop kit is 2.5”. Next gen is around 4” with new upper control arms.
