Tapered 1"Front
Differential Drop Spacers
These spacers
are different from every other differential drop spacer being made. All other
spacers are cut with 90 degree angles on each end, basically perfectly square
cylinders. The problem with cylinder type spacers or a stack of washers is
that the front differential drop only lowers the front side of the
differential, not the rear. When
lowered the front mount rubber mounting bushings are obviously now angled. These
spacers are cut with a taper on one side and 90 degrees on the other so the bushings lay flat. Any
diff drop spacer or stack of washers will "work" but if you want a
spacer that even Griot's Garage would sell this is it. These are difficult
to cut and for every 2 good ones I get there are 2 that wind up in the
trash. Front differential drop spacers improve the CV angles on your front
axle shafts after a lift has been installed. DOES NOT lower your skid
plate or require you to slot the holes and use longer bolts. The process
for retaining the stock skid plate height with the stock skid plate is covered
in the install instructions. Take a look and see why the Sonoran Steel Fabrication L.L.C. design
is superior. It's more than obvious that the front mounts are not correctly
supported with any other option. Cylinder spacer
is seen on the top and tapered spacer is seen on the bottom. Included with
the spacers are two eight inch long, 1/2" fine thread grade 8 bolts, graded
washers & Stover lock nuts. Everything you need to drop your front differential and retain
the factory angles on the differential bushings. More
info on differential drop spacers can be found here. After years of building the spacers above, we have come up
with a more cost effective way of doing the exact same thing. Originally
the spacers were cut out of a 2 1/4" wide puck of solid steel. This puck
matched the size of the bushing. After cutting my truck up during the Dana
44 conversion, the frame section has a sleeve that supports sleeves in the front
differentials leading two bushings. We have re-designed this part, instead
of covering the bushings which is not necessary, we now simply extend the frame
sleeve down 1" with a taper at one end. The new spacers are easier to make
so a 33% price reduction was implemented. The new spacers are cut from
1/4" wall DOM (drawn over mandrel) tube, which means they have no welded seam.
These spacers are considerably thicker and beefier than the frame sleeves.
The spacers are marked with a dot for the top and front, this ensures that you will
install them correctly and orient the taper in the correct direction.
Included are two spacers, two grade 8 fine thread bolts, two fine thread stover
nuts & four washers. The spacers themselves will be painted
black with Rustolimum hammered when you receive them.
This kits fits
1996-2002 4Runners & 1995.5 to 2004 Tacoma Pickups. Front Tapered
Differential Drop Kit: $40.00
US Postal Service shipping for this item is a flat $4.80, Or what ever the
current USPS Flat Rate envelope postage is, Domestic Mail only.
International shipping actual cost.
Actual frame section of
a 1996-2002 4Runner. Here you can see the sleeve that the bolt
goes through. What the diff drop does is extend this sleeve.
Here you can see
the sleeves in the front diff mounts. Once again the kit
simply extends these sleeves and provides a longer bolt.
Typical production time, 2-3 days after payment received. Written install instructions included.
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