Spring lift or collar lift?

[Wife bought my 24 TRD]

Functionally, a preload spacer and a longer spring are going to do the exact same thing. Unless you want a different spring rate due to a lot of extra weight, I can’t see any reason to buy new springs over a preload spacer. Both options will reduce your shock travel though, however, the TRD off road model has extra travel for the sway bar disconnect option due to the remote reservoirs.

With the integral bump stops on the new generation shocks, the downside to a top hat spacer is now gone too. You also won’t lose any shock travel with a top hat spacer. Provided your stock ball joint angles aren’t too out of whack.

Watch the video on stock top hat failure at running for tacos and see if you want to pack anything more in the stock trd off-road shock. The top hats fail then you have to buy another part. Then your travel's reduced .
Basically, you end up with a suit and tie lift that creeks every time you hit a bump.

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[tkrum015]

Do you have a link to your lift from them? Anything you would do differently? Did you use the Trail hunter control arms?

 

[Powhunter]

Watch the video on stock top hat failure at running for tacos and see if you want to pack anything more in the stock trd off-road shock. The top hats fail then you have to buy another part. Then your travel's reduced .
Basically, you end up with a suit and tie lift that creeks every time you hit a bump.

Oops, I already loaded my truck down several times with 3-400lbs of camping gear, generator, fuel, water, recovery gear. It’s handled great on the roughly 350 km of rough road and trails I’ve had it on so far.

I’d like to understand your post though, when my top hats fail, what part do I need that reduces my travel?

 

[tkrum015]

Truck looks great. What tires you running and how did they do in the mud?

 

[tkrum015]

If I understand the Icon top plate reinforcement they are talking about mounts on the top of your shock tower and should not reduce any travel

 

[Powhunter]

Truck looks great. What tires you running and how did they do in the mud?

Thanks very much. They are Toyo R/T in 285/70R17. They do much better than I expected, but the mud out where I like to ride trails is pretty watery and not super slimy and sludgy.

 

[Wife bought my 24 TRD]

Thanks very much. They are Toyo R/T in 285/70R17. They do much better than I expected, but the mud out where I like to ride trails is pretty watery and not super slimy and sludgy.

I primarily live on the East Side of Washington in the Aeneas Valley, where we get 3 to 5 feet of snow. That's why I went with a 255/80R17 a true 33x9.5
Old man saw tooth tires for the deep
snow and and the deep mud.
These geolander, X-AT t's are the quietest the tires i've ever had on a truck. So far in the mud, they have done real well cleaning out. Performance in the sand is did not surprise me, they were nothing shorter than great.

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