2" Blocks To Fit Hilux

[Caleb]

Hi all

Ive been looking into this for a while. and since i had 2" lowering blocks in my old hilux ute 2wd.. i was thinking with my 4wd if i installed 2" blocks under all the leafs front and rear it should in theory raise it 2", i know some of you will be thinking what a silly idea etc hence why im asking for advice or possibly someone has done it before.

some reasons i dont think i shall do it is because they prob wont handle what the 4wd will be going through (i am quite hard on it at times) and also i have spoken to a friend and he reckons under hard braking you might get a little bit of shudder in the steering wheel.

Any thoughts on this? Greatly appreciated!

[firestonecruiser]

seen this done when i was on a safari in thailand. just about every lux on the trip had this done. speaking to a few people it was there understanding that in nz you would not get wof or cert.

[muddyhilux]

weve just put blocks under the back of the brother n laws truck to level out with the front and have full intention of getting certed,why would they not pass a cert?plenty of trucks lowered with these and still legal

in terms of the front end of a hilux youd also need to lengthen torque rod and possiby mod steering arms slightly but unsure as ive never looked at or seen it done to a front end

[Hilux Dan]

I did this on the back of my hilux when I first got it to raise it up, I wound up the Torsions in the front. It was a good quick cheap fix, but long term if your doiong this to get height then I would get some raised springs......chur

[vinceparts]

i would not do this in the front, steering torque rod will hit shit, look at front suspension and youll see what i mean

[jakwoo39]

as long as you make the blocks properly there wont be any brake shuddering
you just have to make sure that you have a dowel in the bottom of the block to align it to the spring perch and a hole in the top of the block to align the spring to the block
something like this...

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but then as vinceparts says its be a bitch to miss steering components

[Cass]

I wouldnt recoment using these to lift a truck, in a lowered ute the weight on the block is only how much the u bolts have been tighted, on a 4wd it will have the weight of the vehicle aswell, wouldnt take long to fail

[tomsoffroad]

And you'll get mean axle tramp

[crazyclark31]

mate hade a surf with blocks in back an man did did it tramp! was funny watchin him try and do skids

[Caleb]

Cheers for the advice..

Will def go for springs over the blocks method for sure !!

Anyone got a rough price on doing springs and shocks?!

[Cass]