Diff drop

I'm looking at installing a 3" front 1" Rear leveling kit on my 2012 tundra. Should I look at also installing a differential drop kit?

 

I would and did twice with a 2.5" lift. Anytime you alter the the front end geometry above 3", it can't hurt to do the diff drop. Another $30 or so.

 

I used two 3/4" spacers I found in my nuts-n-bolts drawer.

 

I think it’s a good idea as well. My 3/1 kit came with them and I personally think it best to keep those parts aligned as much as possible to put less strain on them.

 

Did you actually check your cv angle change? There's some reputable guys on this forum that say it's not only unnecessary, but damaging to your diff pinion.

 

If you buy a 2" lift shackle from Coachbuilder he'll throw in a carrier bearing spacer. It is 1.25" lift and the spacer is .75" I believe...

 

...plus the longer bolts required too I'm assuming.

 

From eyeballing it when I added the front shock spacer from the leveling kit it went to about a 45 degree angle down. Then adding the one inch diff drop spacer didn’t bring it back to where it was but definitely seemed to give it some lift closer to where it was at stock. I’m definitely open to doing more research though. Last thing I would want is to do more harm than good.