I bought my '06 GX about 6 months ago. It's been a great ride until my rear airbag started to leak. Like most, I've decided to research and finally decided on a mild lift.

I know there are lots of option for lift, but I'm really trying to keep this within budget since I rarely keep any vehicle beyond 1 or 2 years. So having said that, I was able to get a low mileage (15k) used front struts, rear shocks/coils from an FJ Cruiser. Ideally, like to lift 2-2.5" overall.

2 weeks ago, I converted the rear. The FJ gave me no lift as some people had claimed upto 1". Well, that didn't happen, but it was fine. I combined it with the SSO set for 1.25", so the overall lift with this setup is 1.25" for rear. I will eventually try to swap out the coil, or maybe a 1" spacer on top of coil like they do with 4runner? Will decide on that later.

For this weekend, I tackled the front. For the front, I had the front FJ strut. I bought some 2.5" spacers from amazon. These are the spacers that goes on top of the hat, so for 2.5", i think the spacer measures about 1.25", which extended the overall length of the strut. After installed, the extended length overly extended the upper OEM control arms to the point it was hitting the coil springs. So as a warning, if you are using OEM upper control arms, do not use these spacers on top of the hat. For now, I just put the old struts back as I needed to drive the GX.

So now, I need to decide to either get some longer coils or spacers that goes under the hat with the stock coils. Thinking of getting spacers that goes under the hat, which I believe is only available via ToyTec Lifts? Not sure if anyone else makes them?

 

moral of the story is.... do it once and do it right... or dont do it at all.

On top of that.. suspension failure from stressed components is no joke and cost much more than a decent suspension lift kit.

 

Unfortunately* TRUE. Which is why I keep mine to "Mall Crawling*" status.

 

So did you actually fully convert the rear to a spring? I work at toyteclifts and we usually have gentlemen running the full OME lift all way around with zero issues and get about 2-2.5 inches of lifts and fit 285s easy. This is the kit I will be putting on mine as well. Let me know if you have any questions man.