Is This The Ideal Sub 2" Lift For a Daily Driver LC250?

[sweet5ltr]

Stopped reading after a bit as it seemed to be overwhelmingly AI.

You're way overthinking this. I run Bilstein 5100's F&R. You can run Dobinsons 15mm rear coil spacers (.5" lift) and set the 5100's (or similar struts) to around 1.5" up front. That will equal out the rake and keep it level, because none of these suppliers have any idea of the OEM spring rates the last time I checked, so your ride and articulation will likely suffer if you just toss a random coil under the rear rather than using spacers with the OEM coils. You'll get slightly more extension from the Bilstein shocks and struts than OEM. Ride quality is very similar to OEM. Have five thousand miles on them so far in Wyoming, Montana, and Utah.

I could go way into detail, but you don't want to lift a Toyota IFS more than necessary, 1.5" lift is about ideal to maintain full articulation and clearance.

Regardless of what people will tell you, you don't need $3,000 in suspension to off-road at iconic locations. Save that money and spend it on fuel and recovery gear. I've been to Moab a half dozen times in the LC, and I'll be out next week doing Top of the World.

 

[GR8Santini]

I think too many focus on the panhard here is mine at 2” rear lift no BOTCK just adjustable to correct axle position and no handling effects noticed.

250: Can’t visually tell it’s not horizontal.

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80 series with 4” lift, bracket and adjustable bar. Slight handling affects above 30 MPH over a transition involving rear tires going over the same medium to heavy bump (>6” transitions)at different times:

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Looks quite extreme but only 4 degrees and was at 8 degrees and stock is 2 degrees on the 80.


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I’d say anything at degrees or less is fine.

Your LC80 certainly doesn’t need to be horizontal being you have an adjustable rear link keeping the rear axle in the right place.

 

[Bad1975]

One thing I’m not sure you have considered is that the 6th Gen 4Runner on the same chassis has 3 different OEM factory TRD and other trims upgrade suspensions from OME, Fox, and Bilstein. These have gone through hundreds of thousands of miles of testing and development with Toyota engineers. You can study the design and parts each supplier used like the forged TRD UCAs to get an idea of what a well developed suspension would look like for the LC250.

The TRD pro Bilstein shocks are under recall for the welds on the reservoir rusting and some have fallen off the shocks apparently.