3" body lift

[TOYMOTA]

LA Supertrux obviously made all the above mods during the fitting of your lift kit (that's what you paid them for). Radiator and bumper drop brackets are required. An extension bracket for auto shift stick is needed (design depends on the type of autobox you have). Haven't worked out which solution is required with my particular Hi Lo shift lever yet. For a 3" lift they will also have had to extend the steering column by an inch or so. Brake pipes they probably didn't have to touch (but varies from car to car depending on how much 'stretch' there is in the coils of the hard brake lines). All this work plus the body lift work itself and all the of components is what LA Supertrux sort out for you. It will take a whole day at least if all goes well- but that's still £50/hour labour.

Now that I have read a lot more about 4Runner body lifts on www.4Crawler.com , Delboy's Surf write up and other places- it isn't nearly as complicated as I had initially thought (no more so than other work on the Surf I have done) provided you start with the right components. By that I mean the right type of steering column extension and shifter brackets. The body lift hardware is universal. So I might be tempted to tackle it myself. Perhaps then I can justify buying some decent brand 33" tyres rather than the remoulds I had in mind.

All the components I need work out at about £120 (inc shipping) from 4Crawler (now scaled down to a 2" lift).

Nevillef

Yeh as i said on the 4th post apart from the bumper brackets the only mod was the steering column no mods on auto shifter or transfer and my rad is in the same place as before,if you have a manual you most probably will need shifter mods,but none of this really matters cos your gonna be saving your self £700 anyway if you use Crawlers kit.

[da SLUG man]

i got a roger brown kit and it was a piece of !!!! to fit... only trouble was beacause its made for a left hand drive, the steering column extension fouled the exhaust... but the 2nd gen wouldn't have this problem because the column runs to a different place... it really is as easy as un bolt, jack up, fit spacers, bolt up again... i did it in a day on my own, but took 6 weeks to get the column sorted!

give the bolts a spray of lube a few days before and you should have no troubles!...

special tools i used were lengths of wood to spread load along sills and a 2ft breaker bar for the tight bolts.